Aleksandar Nikoloski The prestigious Bloomberg has announced that Volkswagen will officially invest in Turkey. It also announced that Macedonia had not entered the final phase of the decision at all. A news that almost went unnoticed. I wonder if society has gotten used to bad news and failures that it no longer wants to hear …
Gjorgji Spasov In the 2017 elections in Kosovo, military leaders (KLA commanders – Haradinaj, Vejseli and Limaj) united in one pre-election coalition (PANA) and won 33 percent of the vote, providing them with 39 seats in the Kosovo Parliament and the opportunity to form the government. In those elections, the ultra-leftist and populist movement, Albin …
Goran Adamovski Kosovo will conduct a population census in 2021. It has already conducted a census in 2011, but in the meantime, the country administratively counted its voters in order to update its voter list. The country can always calculate how many residents it has, all it has to do, for instance, is check how …
Aleksandra M. Mitevska In the absence of more bombastic information about Euro-Atlantic integration, or the “Racket” case, or the Law on Public Prosecution… and some similar topics of greater political caliber, one of the main news yesterday was that Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski spent the weekend more relaxed than usual. He managed to plant three …
Erol Rizaov The captive state of Nikola Gruevski’s decade-long regime was liberated three years ago by a peaceful and bloodless revolution, but the captive minds did not remain chained to the past. They are alive and well, we have been harvesting their poisonous fruits in the past few days, at a time when the progressive …
Gjorgji Spasov In two days, Kosovo will wrap up the election campaign for the new snap parliamentary elections on October 6th. Before the new elections, the electoral landscape in Kosovo has changed significantly. The parties of the former PANA coalition of KLA military commanders (Haradinaj, Vejseli and Limaj), who formed the government after the 2107 …
Nano Ruzhin Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? This genealogical title is the name of the famous Gauguin painting created in 1898 painted during his stay in Tahiti. The association of the three titled dilemmas is also metaphorical for the situation in our country. Since independence, these issues have …
Biljana Bogdanovska The murky waters of Vardar are flowing fast, carrying secrets, dragging time… so some of Vlatko Stefanovski’s lyrics say, so we never knew what the waters were hiding. But this weekend, from the bottom of the largest river in the country that rises at Vrutok and flows into the Aegean Sea, about 50 …
Nikola Popovski We are constantly confronted with the many decisions that are made in society at the micro and macro level, and often for many of them we cannot understand their logic or efficiency. So it is with a series of decisions made by public authorities and institutions. They often seem confusing and vague, and …
Goran Adamovski Basically all of the former Yugoslavian countries are facing the problem of over-employed and inefficient public administration. Of course, this is not only a Balkan phenomenon, but many other non-transition states don’t know what to do with their public administration, so they create reforms that don’t really have a particular effect. But in …
Erol Rizaov Nikola Gruevski had just packed his bags to return to his homeland, he had to unpack yet again. A white horse was ordered from Hippodrome’s stable which he wanted to ride to the Skopje square. It was all a big lie and a serious slander. Everything was cut, edited and modified and created …
Zvonko Davidovic At every step, we are constantly challenged to achieve the best results in our work. Not all people are specialists, nor do they all have full-time employment, much less those who will reach the top in the arts or sciences, many of whom are plant workers, field workers, in the streets. There is …
Ana Pavlovska-Daneva I have been thinking about the importance of the legal profession these days, and I was suddenly overwhelmed by a strong feeling of fear. Fear of its significance and the consequences of its performance (at this moment, in this country). Fear of the results of the work of lawyers who do not know …
Goran Adamovski Former Prime Minister and President Branko Crvenkovski is a man of principles. And now that the former Intelligence head Zoran Verushevski has publicly said that the so-called”bombs” from the wiretapped conversations had been handed over to the then SDSM leader and then were “modified”, he has maintained his position not to comment on …
Aleksandar Nikoloski These days we are witnessing an eruption of a new corruption affair known as the “Racket 2”. We see how the Health Fund Director Dan Donchev and Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce have been charged with preventing entry of foreign investment and financial damage to the domestic company. What can be seen in the …
Naum Kotevski DUI’s “Ohrid Pearl”, Nefi Useini, cannot seem to hide himself from public shame. On the contrary, encouraged by a rotten system in which brutal violation of law is a desirable and acceptable category, spends his days arguing in attempt to justify his actions. Fresh out of the party shell, at least for the …
Goran Adamovski Requirements for abolishing apanages at any level for any position, life-long pensions for former presidents, cash and other allowances for all governing boards, drastic reduction in officials’ travel expenses, more precisely the provision of funds in the amount of public transportation fare… These requirements will probably be difficult to achieve, but they are …
Aleksandar Krzhalovski While anticipating for something positive to happen in or with this country, today I’m going to discuss one of the many pointless things (at least in my opinion) that have strangely become part of normal (or expected) behavior – namely party press conferences, that is daily press conferences, especially of the two main …
Aleksandra M. Mitevska It seems like it was yesterday, but a whole year has passed since the country’s former President Gjorge Ivanov, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, called for a boycott of the name referendum, further heightening uncertainty over the success of the vote that was supposed to provide verification of the agreement …
Erol Rizaov Hristijan Mickoski, for the thousandth time before the public, gave a problematic answer, to put it mildly, to the question of whether he would apologize to the Macedonian citizens for the atrocities committed during the 11-year period of Gruevism. Mickoski says this routinely trained, stupid, stereotypical answer that he obviously likes a lot …
