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DRIVEN AWAY

1 I happened to meet Macedonians abroad who left home in the last decade. These are people that I know had very successful careers in Macedonia, yet chose to leave. We’re chatting: What is it like here? Are things going well? How’s your family, where do your children...
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NISH EXPRESS

1  The highlight of the week for me is the announcement of the construction of the Skopje-Nish high-speed railway. Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski and Minister of Transport Blagoj Bochvarski went to Belgrade to sign a memorandum with Serbia, seeking money from the...
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I’LL DANCE TO MY OWN TUNE

1 You can talk as much as you want, I’ll still dance to my own tune. That’s more or less how Vice Prime Minister Bojan Marichic presented the latest European Commission report on Macedonia’s European integration progress. They wrote “you’ve made no progress” and your...
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SEAT WARMERS

1 When the president of the Supreme Court is urgently summoned to a hearing in the Judicial Council because she stated in an interview that there was political pressure on supreme judges, that means that “it’s truly incredible what North Macedonia has achieved so...