The World Economic Forum in Davos this year was dominated by talk of a profound shift in the world order. The world is changing. As far as Macedonia is concerned, Davos brought...

Is a traffic violation law worthy of convening a leaders’ meeting? We watched yet another drama entitled “Leaders’ Meeting”. I feel these plays are becoming increasingly dull....

The tragedy in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana, which on the first day of this year revived the unsettling images of our own tragedy in Kochani, mustn’t serve as an alibi...

In the festive euphoria, and especially as we stand on the threshold of a new year that’s supposed to bring fresh hope, I completely understand Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski...

One would think that it’s all rainbows and sunshine in our country, judging by how obsessively SDSM has latched onto the issue of accepting migrants denied asylum in the UK, as...

Even if Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski would rather forget Kochani, he’ll be haunted by the tragedy at the illegal nightclub “Puls”, the 63 dead and more than 200 injured,...

Considering the fact that former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who fled the country seven years ago, can still make the headlines with a simple post on social media and a...

Pensioners are a reliable bloc of loyal voters, but you don’t need to be even an average lawyer or economist to realise that a linear increase in pensions simply doesn’t hold...

“The Growth Plan is much more than an initiative,” said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski at the Western Balkans Leaders’ Summit in Tirana, whatever that sentence’s supposed to...

What’s got into the judges that they’ve finally dared to write to Prime Minister Mickoski and tell him he has “crossed the line of good behaviour”? After three months of him...

One thing is certain about these last elections, and that’s that the word “historic” has been completely worn out and stripped of meaning. Truth be told, it started losing its...

Let these elections just be over already. Not only am I sick and tired of this campaign, but I’m actually embarrassed that we’re even talking about the rubbish all over Skopje....

If, in 2025, in the middle of a local election campaign, the main topic in our capital is uncollected rubbish and how rats will eat us, what will be the topic of the local...

Do political parties underestimate voters that much, or do voters underestimate themselves when, during election campaigns, they fall for T-shirts, caps, and notebooks handed...

What are the odds that two convicted men from the same company, sentenced in the same trial, both avoid prison because they’ve each got a testicular hernia? The owner of “Durmo...

Not a single election since 1991 has gone by without me saying: Get out and vote! I always turn up at the polls because I don’t want to give up the only weapon I have – to...

Politics is basically a dirty business. And it is to be expected that there’ll be dirty party plots and games, especially before an election. But if your campaign strategy is to...

In just a couple of days, we had three huge toxic fires in the capital, endangering the health of half a million people, we had a double murder in Veles committed by a thug...

If things have come to the point where the prime minister tells us that the air in Skopje is clean, while our noses sting from the stench and we fall asleep and wake up in smoke...

We might as well start taking collective dementia therapy. Or perhaps the Minister of Health, Azir Alium, could import a team of psychiatrists from abroad, just as he’s about to...

Have you, by chance, heard of exclusive party stores where special prices are available only to members of VMRO-DPMNE and its coalition? If Prime Minister Mickoski and Minister...

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski claims that the local elections will be unsuccessful, pointing to the possibility of independent citizen lists being submitted with just two...

Biljana Ivanovska, a candidate for mayor of the Municipality of Centar supported by “Independent Together,” was fortunate that the chief of police in Skopje wasn’t as zealous as...

In the Republic of Absurdistan, a blind man was driving a van when he hit a woman with his wing mirror and killed her, and while the accident was still under investigation, the...

Next time you want to seek justice, when you want to file a complaint about something or report something to the inspectorates, make sure to first ask around whether the...

I regret thinking back in high school: What’s the point of maths? Well, this is the point. So I’d be able to tell whether those two or three classmates who were good at maths...

Prime Minister Mickoski announced in an interview with Kanal 5 Television that he’d propose to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev that, together with Bulgaria, we submit a joint...

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski says we’ll show the European Union that “with reforms back home, we will prove to be the best student in the class and that the EU will want...

After Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski announced that the Government is seriously considering introducing an additional tax on unmarried people, I can’t help but wonder: what...

 Why is Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski boasting about laying new foundations on the rubble he inherited a year ago, when his own foundations rest on illegal construction?...

I believe the Ministry of Finance hasn’t granted approval for the employment of 26 kindergarten teachers in Kochani for over a month, but it has approved the employment of...

  I listened to the charges regarding the fire in Kochani that claimed 62 lives, including six children. Almost everything that State Prosecutor Ljupcho Kocevski listed as part...

Let’s grab some popcorn, crack open a beer, and sit back. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have started airing their dirty laundry, just like our very own Danela Arsovska, Vredi and...

  It’s time to let a bit of sunshine and fresh air into our dull Scandinavian everyday lives. Let’s tune in live, let’s watch another episode of “The Danela and Visar Show.”...

It’s sad that no one in this country seems willing to change the practice of everything being party-driven. Even sadder is the fact that no one seems to mind. Or perhaps we do...

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski told the President of the European Council, António Costa: “I can’t stand in front of the citizens and tell them that the Constitution will be...

Sorry Sweden, sorry Norway, and especially sorry Denmark, but Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski claims that “we have demonstrated European, Scandinavian-style management of...

The fact that the MPs from the ruling parties didn’t even come out of Parliament during the protest in Skopje to hear our the parents of the children who died in the Kochani...

All that’s left for us to do is laugh, isn’t it? That’s probably the easiest way to digest the news that the president of the Anti-Corruption Commission is under investigation...

That’s what our state is. A large illegal construction without a permit. And the worst thing is that it doesn’t bother anyone. Even if it did, who would we complain to, since...

If, until last week, I had at least some hope that the 61 victims of the fire at the Kocani nightclub might serve as a wake-up call and a catalyst for change in the behaviour of...

A banal video of a Porsche parked incorrectly in the heart of Debar Maalo in Skopje gives me hope that citizens, especially young people, are waking up from their lethargy. We...

We need to build two monuments in memory of the tragedy at the “Pulse” nightclub in Kochani, where a fire on 16th March killed 59 people and injured almost 200 young people,...

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski warns that the people will self-organise and the situation will escalate if the five members of the Judicial Council, who were subject to an...

“If you are trying to find a way to attack the Government for something that never happened, we might as well just make things up,” said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski,...

We’ve heard just about everything from the Assembly rostrum, yet it’s difficult to recall anything more inhumane than the remarks made by Gordana Dimitrieska-Kochoska, the...

While Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski is in America, talking about the frustrations of Macedonian citizens with the EU’s hypocrisy, First Deputy Prime Minister Izet Mexhiti is...

  An idle mind is the devils’ playground. Do people in the government really have so little to do that they’re bringing up the issue of changing the national coat of arms? Why...

It makes me sick to see that yet another tragedy, this time the death of the 22-year-old girl who was run over on one of the busiest boulevards in Skopje, is being used for...