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ALI OF MACEDON
Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski promised we’d have better living standards than the Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Poles, as was the case in the former Yugoslavia, who overtook...
RADEV AND PICCOLOMINI
Who wants to bet that there will be an additional condition on the start of our accession talks with the EU asking us to stop comparing Bulgaria’s attitude towards Macedonia to...
GRADUATION PHOTO BOARD
Do you remember at least once instance when the school year ended properly and there were no complications with the fourth-year high school students? Someone’s always...
MISTER AHMETI
Serbia is not that far away. Neither is the USA. They’re already here. We’re alarmed when we hear of an unimaginable crime, like the one in the Belgrade primary school where a...
SITUATION, BE RESOLVED!
There’s no point in wasting words and complaining about the situation in the judiciary. We saw that in the Judicial Council, the highest judicial body that elects and dismisses...
THEY’RE UP TO SOMETHING
Who’s asking about “Bechtel and Enka”? When we’re asking how one billion and three hundred million euros will be spent for the construction of the four motorway sections in our...
BETTING INSIDE A TUNNEL
Our Government says: “How we’ll spend your money is a secret. And if we reveal the secret, we’ll spend even more of your money”. In other words, even before the construction...
FROM KJOSETO – TO KJOSETO
I’m listening to Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Bojan Marichic saying that “the Government has a mission to bring European values closer to our citizens” and I...
PANCAKES BY PROTOCOL
Oh, what an envious people we are. Now we’re bothered that the president, the prime minister, the ministers, the judges, the prosecutors, the mayors and all other elected...
A STINKY DISH
Okay, can the MPs of the current composition of the Assembly pass the amendments to the Constitution and include Bulgarians in the Preamble, but the decision to be implemented...
WHO’S COMING
Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski once again visited a supermarket to personally make sure that the Government’s decision to freeze the price of certain food products is put...
SUCH HYSTERIA, SUCH MYSTERY
I apologise for disturbing the public, but if I may ask, what’s the amount of money we’re allowed to ask about when you’re spending taxpayers’ money? It's time for a clear limit...
EURO-REALISTS AND EURO-OPPORTUNISTS
The false bomb threats are old news. We survived the white and semi-white bread crisis that lasted for several days. For almost three weeks there’s been no insulin for...
A FAMILY DRAMA
From time to time I follow the parliamentary session about the reconstruction of the Government, but I can’t really figure out whose child will become a prosecutor, whose wife...
WE CAN DO EVEN WORSE
I can’t believe the government is so incompetent that they can’t properly plan even a reconstruction of the Government. We thought they couldn’t plan the regular procurement of...
I DON’T GIVE A DAMN
This guy will be a minister for this, that guy will be a minister for that, this ministerial post will go to this party, the deputy post to that party, and then the directorial...
A COMEDY OF ERRORS
The drama that started with the script for the memorial service marking 95 years since the death of Mara Buneva in Skopje, then built up even more with the beating of the...
HELLO, SOFIA
Macedonia has successfully established good interethnic relations, and in principle there shouldn’t be a problem to include Bulgarians in the Constitutions, as will be the case...
BE QUIET, BE NICE
In reality, it’s easy to see which country holds its own, and which one is slavish. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, without even waiting for an investigation why...
PEOPLE AND DOGS
It’s completely meaningless to debate the question “Are you in favour of people or dogs”. It’s as meaningless as the statement “Why would I need dogs when I have grandchildren”,...
MKD AND OTHERS
Macedonia is taking over the chairmanship of the OSCE. Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani promoted the chairmanship with the slogan “It’s about the people”. And, bam –...
LET LIFE COME
Dear friends, These are the days when we usually check where we’re at, where we were, how far we’ve come. The title of this year’s final edition of “Sakam da kazam” is taken from the subheading of...
BULLDOZER FOR “INSIEME”
If a political public opinion poll asking the question: “Who is the person you are most fond of”, shows that 7 percent of the respondents answered with Nikola Gruevski, then...
WILD BOAR
The Skopje Court of Appeal annulled Sasho Mijalkov’s 12-year prison sentence for mass illegal wiretapping, who was convicted as a former director of the Administration for...
TWISTING THEIR HAND
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Oliver Spasovski, was the one who was the happiest with the news that an American team has come to Macedonia to launch a more aggressive...
SUE ME!
The 200 private buses blockading Ilinden boulevard in the centre of Skopje was a mirror image of the harsh reality we live in. A combination of corrupt and incompetent...
CIAO BELLA
The Court of Appeal in Skopje overturned the first-instance verdict of 8 years in prison for Sasho Mijalkov and ordered a retrial of the Special Public Prosecutor’s case “Vault”...
TURN OFF THE POWER
This situation where SDSM wants to return state advertising in private media, which means over 4 million euros of our budget will go to five national TV channels, reminds me of...
NOBODY’S CHILDREN
“Any of these names sound familiar to you? Do you know these people who have passed the air traffic control test? These are nobody’s children.” This is yet another...
PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK
The last Berlin Process Summit for the Western Balkans will be remembered by the picture of our Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bujar Osmani, casually walking alone in the rain in...
A HEART AT A CROSSROADS
For three days, anti-terrorist units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have been dismissing students early from school due to reports of bombs planted in several high schools...
PICCOLOMINI FOR MODERN SKOPJE
Skopje has been left without public transport for the first time in its history, and judging by the way things unfold, it may remain without water as well. The President of the...
LIFE IS A SONG
The main celebration of 11 October, the Day of the Macedonian Uprising against fascism is marked in a unique way. For several years, delegations haven’t been laying flowers in...
TSAR BORIS AND THE EU
Is there no one in the government who will finally tell Bulgaria “Enough is enough!” To be honest, the European Union should be told the same thing for trying to civilize the...
HOT WATER
Sometimes, when I’m watching the Assembly Channel on TV, I wonder if the MPs are aware that their loved ones might be watching them as well. Especially, when there’s a question...
26 STATEMENTS
Extending the winter break. So children would stay home and study online. The same day when Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski participated in a session on the transformation of...
TWO KILOMETRES
Oh, love gone sour. How passionate it was when one year ago VMRO-DPMNE supported “the best manager” in becoming “the mother of the capital” in the local elections. It’s easy to...
TWO SEPARATE GIGS
Another holiday passed, and the typical Macedonian used yet another chance to complain about their difficult fate. Isn’t the very fact that we have our own country reason enough...
POETRY AND PROSE
It’s a pity Americans give us so much money to fight corruption in Macedonia. In the series of grants, of the latest 10.3 million dollars that USAID gives for the development of...
ELECTRICITY FOR EVERYONE
The government went to Arachinovo to negotiate with the residents and the mayor and they agreed to allow teams from EVN to enter and disconnect all those who have an illegal...
VILMA AND ANGELA
Waiting for the new US Ambassador Angela Price Aggeler, who has vouched to Washington senators that fighting the corruption in Macedonia would be her main task, we're certainly...
CASH FOR THE WOLF
You create an army of 200,000 workers in the public administration, you run out of money and can’t pay them, the loan agreement with the IMF is late and – you come up with a...
JUST FOR LAUGHS AND FOR FUN
When the second Protocol for the fulfilment of the Treaty on Good Neighbourly Relations between Macedonia and Bulgaria was signed, which was a condition for Sofia to lift the...
AN ILINDEN TO REJOICE IN
Dear friends, Let’s have a break. Let us rejoice in the great national holiday 2 August, let us commemorate the great religious holiday St.Elijah and let us enjoy the long summer weekend. Ever since...
A capital M
We, “the anti-Europeans”, “the hysterical” and “the self-proclaimed experts”, whom they consider stupid and unable to understand the historical dimension of the protocol we’ve...
A BULGARIAN EU
So what now? Should we be happy that the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen uttered the words Macedonians and Macedonian language several times in her...
SKENDERBEG IN LINE WITH PROTOCOLS
No other country has ever faced instability caused by EU accession talks. Our obsession with the EU, for thirty years already, has been grounded on our belief that becoming a...
A UTILITY POLE IN KYUSTENDIL
Unlike all the previous “historic opportunities” that made me feel euphoric, I receive the latest “historic opportunity” given to us by the European Union with the “French...
NO NEED FOR HYSTERIA
The Bulgarian veto is no longer a problem. What’s disappointing is that the conditions set by Bulgaria for lifting the veto were accepted by the other 26 EU member states as a...
Europeanisation through Bulgarisation
How was the Macedonian government planning to hide the proposal of the French presidency to convene the first intergovernmental conference with the EU? Especially, how could it...