Erol Rizaov When several years ago we, a group of Macedonian journalists and editors, went to Johannesburg and Cape Town, they told us how the reconciliation in South Africa came after the Apartheid and the brutal murders and tortures, we watched and listened to our hosts and colleagues, wondering if it was possible. Reading the …
Erol Rizaov Macedonia takes a breath after the historic decision to start the process of constitutional changes in accordance with the Agreement with Greece, which has already been ratified twice in the Assembly. The country is no longer in a coma. The impediment to the future of the next generations, and Europeanization of Macedonia and …
Erol Rizaov Saving Nikola Gruevski and his closest associates from prison costs as much as the future of Macedonia. This needs to be shown by the parliamentary debate that starts today for constitutional changes for all who still have dilemmas why the Prespa Agreement is a document of historic significance that determines the survival, security …
Erol Rizaov The Nobel Peace Prize will not help Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev, even if they manage to demonstrate and prove that the most difficult and unsolvable disputes between two countries can be solved peacefully with respect and compromise. For a long period of time, it will just be an addition to the biography …
Erol Rizaov Let’s clean this piece of land, let’s sweep our own yard of the mess made by those who ruined everything, those who are spreading hatred and lies. Let’s show that we are not that kind of people, that our people are not like this, but that the filth comes from a handful of …
Erol Rizaov President Gjorge Ivanov, during his visit to America, called on citizens to boycott the European future of Macedonia. He did not have to travel so far away just to announce what everyone in our country already knows, that he will not fulfill his civic and presidential duties and that he will not vote. …
Erol Rizaov The addresses of the first president of Macedonia, Kiro Gligorov in the United Nations in 1993 in New York and the Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in the European Parliament in Strasbourg 25 years later have, in addition to the historical dimension, a typical “macedonische zuckende” note. And that is the fact that both …
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Erol Rizaov The deadline of Hristijan Mickoski and VMRO-DPMNE has long since expired. Whatever they decide, they will hardly justify the astonishing indecisiveness and party calculus for the most significant determination since the independence of Macedonia. A historical act about the European affiliation of Macedonia for which they should not have thought about for even …
Erol Rizaov Who in this poor country needs to think a little bit harder in order to understand it, to realize that they should do their jobs for which they were elected and are responsible of, for which they swore before the establishment and before the citizens of Macedonia. These people are the Prime Minister …
Erol Rizaov Hristijan Mickoski, the president of VMRO-DPMNE, has been very busy and worked hard on exchanging views on the referendum. As a people’s party, they have drawn the strength from the people, so in the remaining days of his meditation, wrapped in hard work, he will crystallize his attitude to the party depending on …
How this thing is going to end is the most common question that my friends, and my acquaintances, and readers ask me. In order not to sound like a prophet, I answer with a question: Which thing do you mean, this one with the mosquitoes?! When a stronger wind blows the mosquitoes will be gone, …
It’s astonishing, but reasonable people, after signing the agreement with Greece, are still playing on the ground of VMRO-DPMNE. They try to read and interpret the agreement with Greece to the self-proclaimed educators, national ideologists and hygienists an. It’s as if you read the Old Testament to atheists, expecting them to believe in God, or …
It would have been much easier if there was no referendum and if a generation of responsible and courageous politicians, led by Prime Ministers Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras, with the decisions of the parliaments of Macedonia and Greece ratified the agreement and took over the responsibility for resolving the decades-long dispute, and thus opened …
Do you know how pickpockets stole in Skopje buses? Several of them would get on a crowded bus and start looking for the victim by tapping the back pocket, where men were usually carrying their wallets. Or they will locate the lady who holds her purse tightly with both hands. Usually the operation is performed …
Orient Express Those who do not know the limits to where hypocrisy may go in Macedonia were shocked a few days ago by the unilateral decision in the Parliament of Macedonia. All present MPs, both from the government and the opposition, voted in favor of Macedonia’s NATO membership. The insufficiently informed person would think of …
It was not hard at all to assume that Macedonia will face strong pressure from outside and from within not to become a member of NATO and the EU. Not to join an alliance with the most developed, the most powerful and the richest countries in the world. You’d say they are right, it is …
Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, will decide today with whom he will pose for a picture – whether with Panos Kammenos, the Greek Defense Minister and the leader of the Independent Greeks, coalition partner in the government of Alexis Tsipras on one side, and with Gjorge Ivanov, the president of the state, on the …
Orient Express Opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski suddenly braked and began to ride in reverse. So far he was going at 150 kilometers per hour along the highway “Alexander the Great”, but in the opposite direction. After learning that it was renamed “Friendship”, he almost had a direct collision with a big truck. He parked at …
Orient Express What are the eight biggest lies and how to recognize the big liars and their manipulations with motives to fail the referendum and Macedonia not to become a member of the EU and NATO. First, if someone says that the signed agreement with Greece is a capitulation you would immediately know that this …
Orient Express We know who will start the negotiations with the European Union and who will lead and reach the most difficult stages of the chapters that measure the success of the reforms. It will be the teams and institutions led by this government. But, until the final signature for regular EU membership is put …
