French conspiracies


Aleksandar Krzhalovski More than two weeks have passed since the “historic” French “no” to EU enlargement, and thus to our infamous date for opening accession negotiations. The outbursts of discontent, disappointment, and criticism of the government for failing, lasted well beyond the usual “everything passes in three days”, but three days have passed, so after …

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Habemus Commissioner


Aleksandar Krzhalovski “White smoke” emerged from Brussels on Tuesday afternoon with the announcement by the current President of the European Council (leaders of all 28 EU member states) that an agreement has been reached on leading positions in EU institutions after the European Parliament elections in May. Without describing the process, for which there were …

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The Date


Aleksandar Krzalovski The day has come for another long-awaited summit of the EU, or a meeting of the heads of the member states and their governments. But we already know the outcome we have been expecting, yesterday (June 18), the foreign ministers failed to make a decision for starting the accession negotiations with Macedonia with …

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Election Lessons


Aleksandar Krzalovski Sunday’s inauguration of Stevo Pendarovski marked the end of the presidential elections. The drama of the uncertain result in the first round did not reflect in the second round, where after the first half of the count, it was clear how it was going to end. The drama was left only for the …

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Competitiveness


Aleksandar Krzalovski The emotional reactions after the dramatic election night are slowly calming down, the night that brought the most uncertain race and the closest result among the leading candidates from probably all previous elections (including general and local). The final result announced by the State Election Commission is 4,489 votes more for Stevo Pendarovski, …

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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 …

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