Wrong weather forecast


Erol Rizaov Political meteorologists alert: as of tomorrow there will be a dramatic drop of temperature, a polar winter is coming to ruin the wildlife in Macedonia. It will freeze absolutely everything. Dinosaurs and all endemic species that are authentic in this area since the beginning of the time will freeze and turn into fossils […]

Changes in 2019


Petar Arsovski Yesterday the accession protocol for Macedonia’s NATO membership was signed and at the same time the fence was removed in front of the Government. Two unconnected but symbolically close promises of the government before the election. Naturally, NATO is a disproportionately bigger promise, but I think the symbolism of these two parallel deliveries […]

The debt relief framework is populism


Ilo Trajkovski In September of last year, the prime minister urged bosses to open their wallets and give their employees a little more money. Since the call was made during the referendum campaign for the name change, it caused fierce reactions among the public. A few other people and I urged the Public Prosecutor’s Office […]

Gruevski will return – but when the country is a NATO member state


Aleksandra M. Mitevska In spring 2008, the policies of the then VMRO-DPMNE government led by Nikola Gruevski led to a complete blockade of Macedonia’s integration into NATO. The country that until then had been the leader of the Adriatic group survived a dreadful fiasco at the Bucharest summit, as opposed to Croatia and Albania, which […]

Power and wealth


Nikola Popovski At the beginning of each year in the already famous town of Davos in Switzerland a gathering takes place in the form of a forum of the rich and powerful, which is pretentiously called the World Economic Forum. Yes, according to the attendance and structure of the participants, this gathering is both ‘world’ […]

Imer Selmani destroyed the idea of a consensual President


Robert Nesimi In theory the concept of a consensual President is a good idea. By all democratic norms and traditions, and our Constitution, laws and regulations, the President of the country should be a president of all citizens equally, no matter their nationality, faith, gender, political ideology or any other characteristics. In reality this level […]

The cost of the Agreement


Gjorgji Spasov With the signed Agreement with Greece and with the change of the Constitution, a major step forward was made in Macedonia’s efforts to become a member of the EU and NATO. Zoran Zaev, while explaining the agreement in Parliament, said: “This is the beginning of the end of the uncertainty that threatened Macedonia… […]

The Supreme Court revives Gruevism


Erol Rizaov The obstruction of justice by a state body, called the Supreme Court of Macedonia, is the most shameful decision that a court has voiced in countries with a parliamentary political system. The prohibition of further work, and the work that has been done so far, of a special or any kind of prosecutor’s […]

Deleted truth


Frosina Fakova-Serafinovic Prime Minister Zoran Zaev is eager to announce the details of the escape of his predecessor Nikola Gruevski, but the investigation run by the prosecution against organized crime will burn both Prime Minister Zaev and the public, which counts how much time the institutions would need to reveal how Gruevski escaped. While journalists […]

Public-private partnership or sale of doctors?


Ana Pavlovska-Daneva A few months ago we heard that Macedonian citizens will be provided with healthcare services in the field of pediatric cardiovascular surgery, through modern legal mechanisms of interweaving or interconnection of public and private healthcare. Great. In management science, it is called a public-private partnership. In the Anglo-Saxon system is known as “contracting […]

Tsipras’ lesson on patriotism


Erol Rizaov The word patriotism has long lost its true meaning not only in the Balkans, where it has the highest number of patriots per capita in the world, but also in Europe and the entire planet Earth. How to “love” your fatherland strongly enough to stifle common sense in peace is one of the […]

They change the name so they can steal – confirmed!


Aleksandar Nikoloski Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE The latest Transparency International report comes as no surprise to me, and, I believe, is no surprise for the majority of the citizens of Macedonia as well, for the simple reason that we see corruption everywhere around us. It can be found in the lowest sectors, where you literally […]

The air is killing us


Sanja Naumovska Skopje, for who knows which time this winter, reached the top of the list of the most polluted cities in the world. The air is a silent killer of the city and its inhabitants The more we breathe these toxins in, the more aware we become that we will have to do much […]

This state is not ours


Zdravko Saveski Political scientist and member of Levica The renaming of the country from the Republic of Macedonia to the Republic of North Macedonia, as well as the way in which it was done, by violating all democratic norms and principles of the legal state, has brought a phenomenon to surface that will only become […]

Now let’s get to work


Erol Rizaov The greatest achievement in an independent Macedonia, the collapse of the barricades on the road to Europe, can turn into the biggest defeat if that great historic capital is wasted. It won’t be surprising, because it happened to us before, to make a suicidal jump when we were standing right before the goal […]

The fight against corruption


Aleksandar Krzalovski With the adoption of the constitutional changes in our country and the ratification of the Prespa Agreement in the Greek Parliament, we can at least conclude that the road to Euro-Atlantic integration of Macedonia is now open. After all, that was the whole purpose of reaching this agreement and the whole process that […]

Davos is a nice place for a clear head


Erol Rizaov Last year in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Ministers Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev made a pact for a historic and civilized goal – to solve a very difficult problem, long declared as unsolvable by the rest of the world. Zaev and Tsipras did not start from the piles of painful layers, but began from […]

Impeachment for Trump


Petar Arsovski As the US government’s blockade turned over a month, the political landscape has dramatically changed under the feet of the White House, with the latest information from Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen, who published this information on the BuzzFeed website, according to which the president of the United States, in addition […]

Trump’s wall will never be built


Nano Ruzin University Professor People do not like walls, especially those who play games with the lives of families and nations. The fall of the product of the Cold War – the Berlin Wall, which divided the Germans from East and West Berlin for half a century, has grown into a symbol of freedom and […]

Deinstitutionalization: “Timijanik” or “Titanic”


Ilo Trajkovski The topic of this column seems to me to be current. But not because of the acuity of the issues it raises, but because of their chronic character. It talks about problems with a disease of society from which it will not die, as specialists say about rheumatism patients, but it will die […]