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 …
Ilo Trajkovski That is how I think things stand here today. When it comes to the relationship between the elites and the people (masses), that’s exactly what is happening to us. The various party-based elites in politics, education, economy, culture, security, urbanism and other areas of society are accusing each other of lecturing. What can …
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Nikola Popovski Does anyone remember when the Russians and Serbs last held joint military exercises before October 2019? Probably in October 1944 when the Red Army liberated them from the Nazis and internal collaborators and handed free Belgrade to left-wing political forces in Serbia, then proceeded to Budapest and Vienna. This current exercise, held at …
We will never find out whether, if Nikola Gruevski succeeded in forming a government after the last parliamentary elections, the pre-election promises to reduce the employment rate below 18% by the end of 2020 would create 70,000 new jobs, 4,000 euros in aid for each company that will hire a redundant worker and guarantee this …
Aneta Dimovska I look through my office window several times a day. The same scenery in the background: the Italian Embassy, in front of it an old building “masked” with a façade in several shades of yellow, moving cars down in the street in various colors that, beside the exhaust gases, emit noise as well. …
Erol Rizaov In the past few days, flags workshops worked three shifts with an enticing express order. New flags were sewn with the sixteen-rayed Vergina sun. On the evening of October 23, the 126th anniversary of the founding of VMRO, we saw the first renewal of Macedonia of Hristijan Mickoski’s project when VMRO convoys took …
Gjorgji Spasov Nikola Gruevski with his Coalition for Better Macedonia failed to retain power in 2016. By the end of April 2017, he was trying to forcibly halt the change of power, but it still happened, and the changes began. Spreading fear of the “Tirana Platform” has not wavered the new government in adopting the …
Aleksandar Nikoloski Two exciting weeks of great changes and challenges for Macedonia are behind us. On the one hand, the policy of not reforming inside the country and selling stories outside has faced the reality that it won’t pass in the EU, on the other it must have political responsibility and this is why Zaev’s …
Slobodanka Jovanovska Who needs Emmanuel Macron in Macedonia? Why would anyone, except Hristijan Mickoski, accept a meeting with the president of the country that shattered all of the nation’s hopes and a 25-year investment in the European future? Why would any of the incumbents agree to meet with the French leader now after vetoing our …
Zvonko Davidovic Why did I decide to write about fools? Because the competition nowadays is fierce and inexhaustible, and because fools are one of the products Macedonia produces in fantastically large quantities. Dealing with stupid people is much like dealing with dead people – when you’re dead you don’t know you’re dead. Only other people …
Erol Rizaov We are very late. Very, very late, mostly to our fault, but we will reach our goal. Macedonia will be a member of both the EU and NATO. The future is no longer our destiny, it is firmly determined, whether or not some member of the European family, for whatever reason, delays Macedonia’s …
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Ilo Trajkovski Life goes on. Better yet, the struggle for life in this country continues. No matter what happens! Whether the heads of state or government of the EU member states have given us a date or not, we will continue to act the way we have so far. Even if we are given a …
Nano Ruzhin Unless they get a date for the start of negotiations or if it is set, North Macedonia and Albania will still pay the price of the EU’s unpleasant experiences with former Soviet bloc member states. These countries, which have long gained EU membership, formally fulfill all the principles of representative democracy. They regularly …
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Nikola Popovski It is already clear as daylight that in 2019 the EU will not make a decision to start Macedonia’s EU accession negotiations due to France’s negative stance towards our country and that the issue will be re-examined in 2020, although we already know that in 2020 the Union will announce that the issue …
Goran Adamovski By Monday at the latest, Minister Oliver Spasovski needs to set up a working group to implement the vetting process for employees of the Interior Ministry. It will be attended by up to three representatives of the political parties in Parliament. They will act as observers of the process. Vetting or the examination …
Goran Adamovski During these past few days while Macedonia was celebrating October 11 – the Day of the People’s Uprising in 1941 against the fascist regime, Bulgaria sent our country additional conditions that we must meet in order to get Sofia’s green light in the process of accession negotiations with the European Union. The country …
Zdravko Saveski The date. The date. THE DATE! We are waiting to receive that bright, maybe even holy date that is supposed to turn our doors wide open to the prosperity of the West, which we reportedly deserve. Will we finally get lucky? Because we did our part. Every EU diplomat kindly says this to …
Aleksandar Krzhalovski The new team that was introduced the other day by VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski, as he called it – a team of strategic associates, is nothing new on the Macedonian political scene, especially in terms of the two leading parties. Gruevski once presented a Council of Intellectuals led by former Prime Minister Nikola …
Petar Arsovski The debate whether Macedonia needs a third option has been going on for some time, inspired by different motives and on different grounds. Although the reasonable answer would be yes, because every new political offer, especially if it is of quality, raises the general level of discourse and political product, enhances competition and …
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 …
