University professor Jasna Bachovska at the Conference on Human Rights, Justice and Anti-Corruption “Next Station: Europe” organized by CIVIL on the occasion of International Human Rights Day said that we have a very corrupt society and that this corruption is associated with morality and custom, ie that Corruption in our country has a historical background and we see it everywhere.
“The public administration controls each other, from small gifts to public procurement, we all watch and are silent. Why pay tax? I consider myself a person with high civic awareness, the tax should be our ceremony but I am disappointed because I know that that money is used for other things. Our corruption can be seen from a plane, now we have a different atmosphere maybe, but as a continuous problem we have a big problem with corruption. So many people in our country were found to be corrupt, but no one had consequences because of that,” Bacovska said.
According to Bachovska, we have a very low legal culture.
“We listened to bombs in 2015, and no one faced sanctions, we have a problem, it is the education of the population, the amortization of fear. from the punishment we do not expect the money to be returned, it is more important for society to learn. We need to work on establishing the legal culture, sanctions, solving problems, otherwise we will not solve the problem,” Bachovska added.
According to her, investigative journalism is the most elite tool for dealing with corruption in a society.
“Those journalists are now like agencies, forming agencies, connecting internationally, doing serious work, their lives are in question and we need to nurture them. These are instruments that we should nurture and strengthen investigative journalism and protect,” Bachovska said.
