O que funciona em Macedónia do Norte

North Macedonia has implemented gender-quota legislation requiring 40% women on candidate lists, yet women's parliamentary representation fell from 42.5% (2024) to 39.2% in 2025—demonstrating that legal quotas alone do not guarantee proportional electoral outcomes. The country has invested in media-literacy training for pensioners, with over 500 retirees trained through a 2022–2025 partnership showing 6–12% higher accuracy in identifying disinformation compared to untrained peers. However, North Macedonia's broader record with AI projects reveals significant governance gaps: the government invested €150,000 in a multilingual AI assistant launched in 2023 that became non-functional after two years due to a lapsed contract, and a state audit found that none of 48 AI projects co-financed since 2018 (worth over €6.11 million) reached operational status in the public sector.