Rumena Buzarovska Here are just a few facts that paint a vivid picture of the gender equality situation: In Macedonia, when we talk about who is managing the country, we have 6 female mayors versus 75 male mayors. The government has only 4 female ministers versus 21 male ministers. A photo recently published on social […]
Ilo Trajkovski Spring is around the corner. So, it’s time for the Narcissus flowers. And presidential elections are scheduled. So, it’s also time for narcissism. And this time as in any other previous seasons of spring there is an overlap between the rhythm of nature and the rhythm of society. From this perspective, the ambiguity […]
Zvonko Davidovic Attorney at law A renowned professor was sitting in a tavern with his friends, and while they were talking, a young man came to their table and addressed the professor with great respect, asking the professor and his company to pay their check because the books written by the professor helped the young […]
Robert Nesimi If it passes, it passes. After a relatively quiet period during the transfer of power, time came for the new government to continue the good old way of employing its people, that of using political connections. For the past few weeks a number of brothers, sisters, sons, daughters and all kinds of other […]
Aleksandar Nikoloski Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE Unfortunately, there are serious announcements these days that Macedonia will not receive a date for starting negotiations with the EU again this year. The announcements are that despite the fact that Zoran Zaev and Nikola Dimitrov signed a capitulating agreement for the complete disfigurement of Macedonia, renaming the country […]
Ljupco Popovski In politics, perception is more important than the truth, more important than strategy, more important than the program principles of a leader or party. Perception has the power to crush a party, and even bring power down. That parliamentary cheerful vaudeville with a lot of noise on Sunday around Trajko Veljanoski’s immunity seemed […]
Zdravko Saveski Political scientist and member of Levica We need fundamental changes in Macedonia. If these radical changes are not made, we are yet to see how our lives are deteriorating and how things become established practices, things we thought that would never happen to us. Even so, at this given moment there is no […]
Zdravko Saveski Political scientist and member of Levica We need fundamental changes in Macedonia. If these radical changes are not made, we are yet to see how our lives are deteriorating and how things become established practices, things we thought that would never happen to us. Even so, at this given moment there is no […]
Ilo Trajkovski What a difficult and turbulent week! Mind-boggling series of events: the beginning of the country’s name change, scandal after scandal in the government, a tragic traffic accident with many lost lives, an easy intellectual abortion with a serious threat to presidential candidacy, a problematic choice of a member of the anticipated anti-corruption commission […]
Erol Rizaov The latest strong public bombing with fierce propaganda and new doses of hatred and the radicalization of relations between political parties and their leaders began two months before the first round of the presidential elections. Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, activated his heavy artillery two days ago. At the same time, Zoran […]
Goran Adamovski Economy Minister Kreshnik Bekteshi is the first to publicly announce he will not tell his sister and the sister-in-law to resign from the jobs they recently got in well-off state-owned companies. According to his logic, is all the same if close relatives of government officials get excellent jobs just when their close relative […]
Ljupco Popovski There are several, very serious reasons for Macedonia to frantically engage in reforms in the next couple of months if it does not want to remain short-handed at the EU Summit in June, when it should be decided whether the membership negotiations will officially begin. One is of a regional character and is […]
Gjorgji Spasov In Macedonia for many years, the “first truncheon” – as people here like to call the police minister, was in the hands of a Gordana. She was far from illiterate. She had graduated in England, spoke fluent English, published articles in the magazine Politicka Misla – Political Thought, and from the position of […]
Zvonko Davidovic Attorney at law Mayor caught smuggling cigarettes at the border crossing. Another mayor caught in a photograph drunk in a tavern, with half-naked dancers dancing around him. 27-year-old fire trucks on average (a total of 220 in the entire country) are barely moving and starting when someone’s home is on fire. Struga has […]
Erol Rizaov Two months before the presidential election, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski declared the party’s winner with the words: “Professor Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is the new head of state. Macedonia got its first mother of the nation”. Thus, with 408 votes in favor in the VMRO-DPMNE convention, we have our first nation’s mother, a mother of […]
Robert Nesimi Political analyst For most people the crisis in Venezuela entered their radar only during the past few weeks, but in reality the country has been in a state of perpetual crisis for the better part of this decade. The catalyst event was the declaration of the Speaker of Parliament Juan Guaido, who acting […]
Ana Pavlovska-Daneva The new Law on Prevention of Corruption was widely discussed, as well as the new composition of the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption. In this short period of time since the selection of SCPC members and its constitution, the public has nothing else to do but to construct assumptions about its future […]
Aleksandar Nikoloski Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE The title of this column is a sentence most often spoken by representatives of the government, people close to Zaev and SDSM. It simply comes down to the following – because Zaev and Dimitrov changed the name of Macedonia, and thus in some way they pleased the international community, […]
Nano Ruzin A cold day in February 2008, the most popular privately owned pro-government media outlet said that “NATO launched an investigation against the ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to NATO for publishing confidential documents”. It was the most shocking news of the day. It was an ambassador who had been elected by the Belgian Ministry […]
Zdravko Saveski And so it happened. They signed the Protocol for NATO membership. Our rulers were happy! And why would they not be, right? The country has been waiting for this moment for more than a quarter of a century! But do we, the people, need to share the joy with the authorities for the […]
