The Global Risks Report 2026 presents a comprehensive assessment of the most severe global risks facing the world across three time horizons: the present (2026), the short to medium term (to 2028), and the long term (to 2036). Based on insights from over 1,300 global leaders and experts through the Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS), the report argues that the world has entered a new phase defined by intensified competition, weakened multilateralism, and compounding systemic risks. This is a summary of the WEF Global Risks Report 2026 

The digital transformation has created new forms of property with legal and economic value, which are also becoming increasingly important in inheritance relations. The category of digital assets includes crypto-assets, monetized electronic accounts, domains, licenses to use cloud services, as well as digital content with financial or personal value.

In many legal systems, these assets pose particular challenges due to the lack of direct regulation, the conflict between the right of heirs and the right to privacy, and the impact of contractual terms of digital platforms on the practical realization of inheritance. In the Republic of North Macedonia, the existing framework in inheritance law, obligations and personal data protection still does not provide clear solutions for the identification, valuation and transfer of digital assets after death.

   The paper addresses the legal nature of digital assets, practical and normative difficulties, and proposes directions for legislative modernization, including explicit recognition of digital heritage, asset categorization, and standardized procedures for heir access, drawing on European examples of regulation and case law. 

This paper explores how the arbitrators are chosen and the role they have in international arbitration, focusing on how their selection, qualifications, and ethical obligations affect the fairness and legitimacy of the arbitration procedure. Because arbitration is dependent on party autonomy and neutrality, the choice of arbitrator really important because based on who you choose it will affect the decision. The study explores the main methods of appointing arbitrators—such as party agreement, institutional appointment, and appointments made by courts or what happens when disputing parties fail to choose an arbitrator. It also analyzes the most important qualities of the arbitrators that affect the process and they must possess, including independence, impartiality, expertise, and professional integrity. Furthermore, the paper discusses the procedures for challenging, removing, or replacing arbitrators, with reference to the rules of the ICC, LCIA, and UNCITRAL. The ethical part of arbitrators’ work, particularly issues of neutrality, conflicts of interest, diligence, and confidentiality, is examined in light of internationally accepted standards. Through a comparative review of leading institutional rules and relevant academic literature, the paper highlights the central role arbitrators play in ensuring due process and maintaining confidence in international arbitration.

This paper studies the legal protection of investors in the securities market, focusing on national regulations in North Macedonia and the wider European Union framework. Investor protection is important for maintaining trust, transparency, and stability in modern financial markets, especially as trading becomes more and more complex and technologically driven. The study summaries the fundamental rights of investors—including access to truthful information, protection from market manipulation, fair treatment, understanding of risks and costs, and the right to compensation—and explains how these rights are applied through disclosure obligations and supervisory oversight. The role of national regulators, particularly the Securities and Exchange Commission of North Macedonia, is compared with EU institutions such as ESMA. The paper also analyzes major global cases of investor-protection failures, including Wirecard, FTX, and Archegos, as well as local enforcement examples, highlighting how gaps in supervision, transparency, and enforcement can lead to significant financial losses. The findings show that while North Macedonia increasingly harmonizes with EU standards, continuous improvements in regulation, enforcement, and cross-border cooperation remain necessary. Strengthening investor protection ultimately supports fair markets, reduces systemic risk, and improves long-term economic development.

This Diploma project analyses the role of administration, its historical background, and the modern reforms such as e-governance, which is very important, especially in today’s world, because the way a state functions and succeeds is dependent on the efficiency of the administration. The aim of this diploma project is to analyze the pros and cons of e-governance and how states can successfully implement the model—what they should do before and during the implementation process. Also, we will analyze one of the most successful stories of e-government reforms: the state of Estonia with their E-Estonian system, which has become an example of how to implement e-governance in public administration. The diploma project will also analyze the public administration of my country of North Macedonia: how its reforms are organized, considering their success and citizen satisfaction.     Except for the data analysis, the diploma project is also based on personal interviews with some foreign students from Turkiye, where I asked about their experiences. The project will also consider the future of public administration, particularly the role of AI. The methods used in this project are literature review and conducted personal interviews with participants. This project has done an analysis of the past, present, and future of public administration, including the benefits and shortcomings of e-governance in North Macedonia and Estonia

Strategies of discrimination against and expulsion of the Roma persist in the policies of contemporary democratic and non-democratic countries, including those that respect human rights and those with challenges in that regard. The ongoing structural discrimination that the Roma face has not yet been properly addressed; the current minority rights framework (Kymlicka, 2008) and post-1990s minority regimes in Europe remain unhelpful for many Roma. The measures that have been proposed to date to address social exclusion and marginalization in many cases are largely unenforceable; they tend to overlook the harsh living conditions, lack of access to public services, low level of education and the prejudices against and hostility towards the Roma. Moreover, they do not recognize diversity within the Roma community and instead see it as a homogeneous population (Pogány, 2006). Due to social exclusion, embedded discrimination, a history of persecution and its cultural specificity, the Roma community has particular difficulties in achieving some socially established objectives. The priority areas are interconnected: for example, if the Roma are unable to receive an adequate education