Each North has its South


Erol Rizaov Debates in the Macedonian and Greek parliament on the “Macedonian issue” and the tensions in both countries that have deep roots are once again taking us back to the past, and provoking new divisions and hatred among the citizens in Greece and Macedonia. Disguised as patriotism, battles for power are essentially fought in […]

Early elections for new reforms


Aleksandar Nikoloski Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE Last Friday, January 11th will be remembered as one of the darkest days in the history of the Macedonian people and the country. On that day, 81 MPs in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, people elected by the citizens to represent them, without the consent of the […]

Functional illiteracy or illiteracy of the literate


Zvonko Davidovic   The future of one country are the generations to come, the youth who will one day rule the country. These generations are already in school benches or university assembly halls, and are on the move to actively engage in all social processes starting from the formation of the family to the creation […]

To be or not to be


Aleksandar Krzalovski The title is “borrowed” from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and its most famous phrase “To be or not to be”, which reflects a great dilemma and a moment of decision that must be brought. The inspiration for the title is, of course, the situation in which our entire country is this week, especially the 120 […]

Census: How to statistically lie to ourselves


Ilo Trajkovski What do lying and statistics have in common? Statistically, we ate sarma for New Year’s Eve. Namely, some ate meat, and others fasting cabbage. On average, everyone ate sarma! I remembered this anecdote recently, thanks to the perseverance of the Director of the State Statistical Office (SSO). His arguments against the inclusion of […]

The right and wrong side of history


Erol Rizaov The constitutional changes will be adopted in the Parliament of Macedonia. It is a historic necessity and a good knowledge of all participants in making the most significant decision in the Assembly of independent Macedonia which marks the entrance with golden letters on the right page of history. To run away from parliament […]

Which road will we take


Gjorgji Spasov In the next few days, The Parliament will finally decide which road Macedonia is going to take. One is through the acceptance of the constitutional amendments, with which we become the Republic of North Macedonia in order to open our country’s path to NATO membership, to start the EU membership accession talks and […]

Full delegitimization of power


Zdravko Saveski The government could not have made a bigger fool of itself than it did with the series of moves at the end of last year. Amnesty, ganging up with the construction mafia, more privileges for themselves, more strikes against poverty! All the things we have seen. With these procedures, the government lost the […]

Achievements and failures


Nikola Popovski The end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 was a good occasion to assess the achievements and failures of economy throughout the world, as well as Macedonian economy. As usual, depending on whether the assessors are government or opposition, pro-government or pro-opposition, the estimates for the domestic economy vary from the fact […]

Hush… The President is expecting NATO Membership!


Erol Rizaov If morning reveals what kind of day we are going to have, and the year is known from the first day of it, then we can expect more bright days. The first child born in 2019 one minute after midnight is called Vedran (Bright), and the first three days were sunny and enjoyable, […]

Step closer to tram transport


The tram transport project has been brought to life yet again in Skopje. Quite unexpectedly, the end of 2018 in the country’s capital was marked by the announcement that it will not remain just a desire for the citizens of Skopje. Lost in the past ten years, this kind of city transport has been so […]

Dumpster diving for pensioners, market stands for MPs


Ilo Trajkovski The educational profession is a noble one. It enriches the students, as well as the educators. When one is committed to their work, works with quality and in a professional manner, it adds a new value to the most important development resource – human knowledge. As explained in the neo-capitalism vocabulary: the educational […]

Macedonia is blackmailed


 Erol Rizaov The words “Macedonische zuckende”, first used in Europe almost a century ago, do not only mean Macedonian conditions, but tangled Balkan things that cannot be untangled. The equivalent of the German diagnosis initiated after the killings and assassinations in the European cities by Macedonian activists in mutual conflicts is the French “macédoine salade”, […]

2019 is our year


Petar Arsovski it seems that 2019 will be our year. Hold on, don’t celebrate just yet. 2019 will be our year, but not because everything will go as smoothly, but because everything will depend on us most. This is, for the most part, bad news. The second half of 2018, as Florian Bieber concluded, was […]

Sarcastic freedom


Marija Pavleska When one writes just before the end of the year, the written usually refers to two things. First, to summarize the most important events that have occurred in the past twelve months, and then to wish for greater success and health; while the dreamers may wish clean air in the year ahead. Considering […]

Presidential poll


Aleksandar Krzalovski With this article I conclude the “trilogy” about the polls, especially those of MCIC, whose aim, besides commenting on the results itself, was to demystify some issues around them and explain what should be kept in mind when commenting on them. Starting from technical issues, such as the sample of respondents, the statistical […]

Zaev should not repeat the historic mistake


Erol Rizaov Media reports that Prime Minister Zoran Zaev may run for president of the country in the spring election, no matter that these reports are the result of assumptions and analyzes of winning combinations, they still deserve attention because they too point to the thought of repeating the historical mistake made by Branko Crvenkovski […]

The Prespes Agreement now an inspiration for Vucic


Spiros Sideris  The meeting of the Supreme Co-operation Council, between Greece and Serbia, held in Belgrade, has shown that the Prespes agreement can also serve as a model for resolving the issue of Kosovo. Serbia’s apparent lack of interest in the agreement and the downgrading of its value with comments of the type: “it’s not […]

All the amnesties for violence in Parliament


Robert Nesimi A few days ago a strong majority in Parliament voted a Law for amnesty for the events of 27 April 2017. This law will amnesty most of participants in that most violent day in the political history of Macedonia. This act is now presented in an Orwellian way by the government as “national […]

Introducing a fair tax?


Zdravko Saveski While the majority of citizens barely make ends meet, the minority rich and ultra-rich do not know which luxury to throw away money at first. This is Macedonia today. More than half of the workers have a salary below 15,000 denars. For that paycheck, most of them grind, sweat, work overtime, on Saturdays, […]