On the eve of Independence Day, September 8, I was reminded of an interview with the late Ratka Dimitrova that she gave to our news outlet in 2016, when we marked the 25th...

How does offering and accepting bribes work? You don’t know? How could you not know, everyone does. That’s what Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski says. He claimed that someone...

It’s alarming to see how many more police officers, inspectors, shift supervisors, and customs officers will be fined or dismissed by the time these guys from the “VLEN”...

  It’s disheartening when a supreme judge and a member of the Council of Public Prosecutors accept a bribe of 15,000 euros from a defendant to manipulate a court case in his...

Since Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski has gone on holiday, it must mean that things are not as bleak as we’d think regarding the defence of the state’s integrity and...

Holidays are often accompanied by holiday speeches. Usually, they paint a picture of an imaginary future. It will be fulfilled, we’ll do this, we’ll find a way, and we’ll make...

After the statement by SDSM leader Venko Filipche, acknowledging that during the campaign they realised the mistake they had made with the amendments to the Criminal Code, which...

So, it could be done after all. In a crisis situation, such as the current forest fires, the state can coordinate all institutions in a timely manner to intervene effectively....

Will someone please make the Prime Minister some mint tea, for crying out loud? He went to Washington to commemorate the 75th anniversary of NATO, sat at the same table with 31...

 It’s great that the Government has decided to abolish the economic director positions at the Skopje clinics. The only step remaining is to actually abolish them. After a dozen...

It’s a familiar state. However, this time, we don’t refer to it as a national disaster simply because VMRO-DPMNE is in power. After winning the elections, they are constantly...

  The European Union will start accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova on June 25. Good for them. They don’t have such big problems with good neighbours like we do with...

Our entire country is a representative sample that could be used for a case study in declining jurisdiction. We could travel the world, offering training sessions to other...

 Half a million citizens voted for you, and the first thing you do once you come to power is create four new ministries. The new parliamentary majority led by VMRO-DPMNE...

  Well, when it comes to the election of Afrim Gashi as the President of the Assembly, I don’t know if we should see it as an act of repentance by VMRO-DPMNE for their attack on...

Let’s enjoy the long holiday weekend. I mean, the fight over the name can totally wait, right? Macedonian literacy is being celebrated in Greece. Could there be a more fitting...

 The glory of our new president, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, was short-lived. It lasted only three or four hours. The same statesmen, diplomats and officials who had previously...

  In that case, how about we bring VMRO back? Congratulations. At this point, analysing how and why SDSM suffered its greatest electoral defeat in history is just a waste of...

With five days until the parliamentary elections and the second round of presidential elections, it seems irrelevant to me to analyse who said what at the rallies, how...

After the disastrous result of SDSM in the first round of the presidential elections, where the difference between Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova and Stevo Pendarovski is 180,000...

Everyone will get a day off. So everyone would be able go to the elections. God, what a decision. The Wednesdays when the elections will be held have been declared non-working...

The consistent policy of rewarding bandits and punishing taxpayers continues in Macedonia. The European Commission demands that the state return 2.2 million euros within 30 to...

The most interesting part in the televised leadership duel between Dimitar Kovachevski and Hristijan Mickoski occurred when the lottery girl Marjana Stanojkovska appeared on...

I don’t know if it’s because Macedonia is small, so we all seem to know each other in some way, or if it’s because of the fatigue from the three-decade-long transition and the...

The U.S. State Department blacklisted the mayor of Karposh and presidential candidate Stevcho Jakimovski because “he was involved in corrupt acts, including using his official...

The Registry Office apologised to the mayor of Karposh municipality, Stevcho Jakimovski, for issuing a death certificate to his son and daughter-in-law instead of a marriage...

In the presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 April and 8 May, people will be able to vote with an expired ID card or passport, provided that their validity has expired...

The pre-election campaign has kicked off with parties sowing fear. SDSM is scaring us that VMRO might return. VMRO is scaring us that SDSM would stay in power. DUI doesn’t see...

The additional Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Mitko Bojmacliev, embarked on a journey to the Bogorodica border crossing in the middle of the night to personally welcome the...

 The highlight of my week was a photo from the Macedonian embassy in Brussels. Technical Prime Minister Talat Xhaferi visited the EU headquarters. To strengthen the country’s...

 The elections are approaching. The parties are commissioning polls about their popularity, they’re lifting their own spirits, they’re bidding on the number of voters and...

The judicial precautionary measure – confiscating the travel documents of suspects and those accused of a crime – has started to lose its meaning. Starting from 13 February,...

 Twenty-four elementary students and 26 high school students from Shtip didn’t show up at school in the second semester. They moved abroad with their parents. It’s not that the...

The fact VMRO-DPMNE states it will participate with ministers in the technocratic government but won’t vote for the Government, as stupid as it may sound, is not inexplicable...

 In reference to the attack of eight thugs on MNAV, led by the head of the DUI branch in Chair, Bekim Neziri, the director Fahrudin Hamidi said it was just a tiny case of...

When you read the statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the storming of the state company M-NAV at Skopje Airport, you’d think that it’s an everyday announcement...

2023 ends the same way it started, not very optimistically. With the same news that serves as a testament to the ongoing disaster in the judiciary, justice, impunity, corruption, the tool for equity...

The 350,000 euros government campaign, titled “European future, closer than ever,” has started, and I still haven’t been able to attend a policy presentation to finally...

So, Ukraine, which is at war with Russia, and Moldova, which doesn’t have full control over its territory, can start unconditional negotiations with the EU, but Macedonia cannot...

Ljupcho Palevski Palcho, accused of the murders of 14-year-old Vanja Gjorchevska from Skopje and 74-year-old Panche Zhezhovski from Veles, is not a rookie in the game. He has...

So, it could be done after all. It turns out it wasn’t that complicated to mow the grass and trim the bushes along the road from the Skopje Airport to the “Boris Trajkovski”...

 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...

  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...

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...

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...

  I still can’t contain my joy after the unexpected success of Macedonia on our path to the EU. The bilateral screening meeting for the “Fisheries” Chapter took place in Brussels...

When Zoran Zaev became prime minister in July 2017 with the promise: “Let this evil never happen again,” the government coalition led by SDSM received a mandate from the...

Oh, if only we all possessed the determination and unity of our air traffic controllers, and if we could rebel against the parties that hire incompetent personnel in our state...

I would greatly appreciate it if the Government could release a recording of the session during which our ministers compiled the list of food products whose VAT will be...

I don’t get it. Why are we making such a fuss over an opposition MP calling the deputy prime minister slimy from the parliamentary rostrum? Yet, that’s the headline news from...