LAND MINE
We’re wasting our time with Bulgaria. The only thing we can learn from them is how to steal a billion euros from EU accession funds.
WISH LIST
Since, you’re spending too much time on Facebook, at least read that the Prime Minister has a plan.
AN EMPTY POT
What can we, the private-sector employees, use to blackmail the government if our salaries are not increased?
EMILIJA AND MARTA
You can’t tell who’s crazier. Is it Bulgarians for asking Macedonians to prove that they exist or Macedonians for getting involved in a process of having to prove they exist?
BLOCKED MINDS
The way Mickoski is hell-bent on getting early elections, you’d think Gruevski has already bought a ticket home to return from his asylum in Budapest.
FAULTY MARRIAGES
Which private company could deal with the production of 20,000 faulty products?
PLEASE DON’T, BROTHER
The next condition will be – how about you stop overdoing anti-fascism if you want to join the EU.
PUT THE OIL BACK
That’s what our state is. A large illegal construction without a licence. And the worst thing is that it doesn’t bother anyone. Even if it did, who would we complain to, since even the ones we pay to be bothered by it, aren’t.
NEE-NAW
Ah, if employees in private companies could organize a counter strike and refuse to pay the social contributions which earn the salaries of the state administration, at least for a month. But the state doesn’t care about the taxpayers, it doesn’t negotiate with them and doesn’t pamper them.
OPEN YOUR DOOR
As if we didn’t already have it rough waiting to be granted a European future by having to decide who tsar Samuil belongs to, we now have to worry about the European future of the Europeans, in case Russia divides them.
A COMPLEX DIAGNOSIS
We’ve already decided. The question is whether the EU has decided for Macedonia to join the EU. Or will they let Russia take us?
WE’RE ALL JUST ONLOOKERS
When the Government says that the public administration should spend less money, it’s even more apparent how much money goes down the drain.
A NUCLEAR WINTER
In the EU there’s a natural order of things. First Goce Delchev, then Ukraine.
RUSSIAN BOOT
Putin is punishing Ukrainians for not being Russians. Radev is punishing Macedonians for not being Bulgarians. And the EU? The EU is “deeply concerned”.
RADICAL MANAGEMENT
The innocent wave of Bulgarian MEP Dzhambaski isn’t a Nazi salute. It’s an administrator’s salute. That’s how the administrators of Macedonia from 1941 to 1943 used to wave like.
A LITTLE WINDOWPANE IN BITOLA
The government has increased the workers’ salaries. Now they should do the same for the work-dodgers.
AN OLD HOPE
If we don’t start the negotiations during the Serbian presidency of the EU, then the first intergovernmental conference will certainly be held during the Montenegrin presidency
A ROMANTIC LEVEL
We no longer fall for Bulgaria’s signals. There’s only one good signal – let them lift the veto on Macedonia
BREAD AND COIN
A NATO member state has found itself in a situation where not only the political, but also the energy, and thus the economic stability, depends on a company with Russian businessmen on its supervisory board
TWO DAYS OF PEACE AND QUIET
How should I feel about the year that started with fierce quarrels over Toma and Nole?
PANDEV AND ELMAS
The biggest challenge in 2022 will be to overcome hatred with kindness and good manners
EU WITHOUT YOU
“EU with you” is fine, but not as Macedonians speaking Macedonian language and not as antifascists in World War II.
BULGARIAN OFFENSIVE
When it comes to the Bulgarian veto, I really don’t know which values the EU is defending with the consensus.
SLEEP ON IT AND FORGET IT
Our lives are paralyzed in the gap between two majorities and two accidents.
PEOPLE – CHECK
Who cares that there are no pediatricians in Ohrid when the new mayor has promised to return the beach bars, which were polluting the lake. What matters is to keep building.
A SPARE MOTHERLAND
As a voter, I’d love to know if the ones seeking my support to make decisions on my behalf have another motherland in addition to mine. When you’re an official, the issue of how many passports you have at home becomes public interest.
ALL PISS AND WIND
We’ve got to a point where doctors debate about concrete pavers and the ones laying the pavers preach at us about vaccines and swabs.
HOSTILE BULGARIA
And what can we conclude after the pointless EU Summit in Slovenia? That Bulgaria is our enemy and that the European Union couldn’t care less about it.
THE SAVAGES OF THE WESTERN BALKANS
Both the ruling and the opposition parties don’t follow the Covid safety protocols at the rallies, but we’re expected to trust them that they’ll keep all the promises they make so generously and casually.
BANAL BULGARIA
The way Zaev has started to care more about how Bulgarians feel than how we feel, it will turn out that they hadn’t come here to occupy us, but to free us from our domestic Fascist sympathizers.
AN ILL-NATURED PEOPLE
The concept of the government’s anti-corruption campaign is: our people are corrupt, they are aggressively offering bribes, and the honourable government can hardly defend themselves.
THERE’S NO END TO THIS
Filipche can thank politics for falling so low, from people saying “Listen to Venko” to a level where they’re saying “Down with Venko”
MACEDONIA EXPRESS
If Greece could send thousands of unvaccinated doctors and nurses on unpaid leave amid the fourth wave of the pandemic, then why would we tolerate unvaccinated census takers?
“A SLIP OF PAPER” SYSTEM
How is it possible for the MPs of the parliamentary majority to go on holiday and not give a damn that 40,000 people were left without ID cards?
30 PER CENT
We have laws, we’ll wait for a new tender for documents, and we can’t establish order.
BOJAN, I HAVE AN IDEA
SDSM aren’t afraid of VMRO-DPMNE as much as they’re afraid of the citizens who helped them come to power
MACSHANE’S WATCH
Greece sought our name, Bulgaria is seeking our language and identity, so, once Albania joins the EU what will be left for them to seek?
DUDES AND SHOW-OFFS
Instead of clearing away the dudes troubling the state, the state will clear away the greenery that troubles the dudes.
CALL THE POLICE
It’s stupid that every morning the minute we wake up we rush to see what Sofia has said and how that’s been commented on by Washington and Brussels, instead of seeing what’s happening to us in Skopje.
A BROTHERLY MECHANISM
I could have expected anything on our path to the EU, but I never thought that the European Union itself would endanger the security of the whole region, even its own security, all just because of the nationalism of one of its member states.
NOTHING WILL COME OUT OF DEVE BAIR
Mile, I’ve got an idea. What if we tell them they’ve messed up the elaborations?
GETTING RID OF LICE
If you don’t put the corrupt on your blacklist, then we’ll put them on ours
SPRITZER ACCORDING TO PROTOCOL
The Macedonian is once again at a historic crossroads. To become Bulgarian and risk being blacklisted by the USA, or to patiently wait for a date to start the accession talks with the EU?
TONI SALI
Everything feels meaningless when a child dies because of cruel bureaucratic negligence.
CYNICAL OPTIMISM
It’s cynical to repeat over and over again that the integration of the Western Balkans countries is of utmost importance to the EU, while blocking that integration in the field.
LJUPCHO AND RAMIZ
The money of the honourable must be spent wisely. To reward the dishonourable.
A GUARD OF HONOUR FOR VÁRHELYI
Will Russia stand aside and wait for Bulgaria to lift the veto for Macedonia in the EU!? Because, to join the EU what matters is tsar Samoil.
TROUBLE PAR EXCELLENCE
Next time they come in the Assembly to crack your heads open, we’ll be watching romantic comedies on TV. The suspense will be greater.
STOJKOING AROUND
And what came to pass on our way to the EU? Russia reminded us that ”80 years ago, on 18 April 1941, Bulgaria, then an ally of fascist Germany, invaded Macedonia.”
YES BOSS
We knew the MPs are incompetent lackeys who don’t think with their own head. But now we saw they’re merciless and inhumane.
PASSPORT PHOTO
When people get hired in state institutions based on their contribution to the party, are they told that they have to turn on their brain from time to time?
PANDEV AND ELMAS
What do they want to prove by enumerating the diaspora? To brag about how many people have moved abroad because of them?
HVALA BUGARIJO
Macedonians decided to get vaccinated by the “Balkan dictator” Vucic, since the “EU democrat” Borisov cuts them dead
SOFTWARE FOR ARACHINOVO
Please, deliver us the cheapest and the finest weapon at your earliest convenience.
ĆAO ŽURIM!*
Pardon my Serbian but I’m writing it to spite Zakharieva. So there’s some work for Bujar. So he can comfort her when she’s upset.
I’M MARTIAN
When kids grow up they’ll have to choose who they love more, their mother or their father.
THE [VɅKSɅJNS] SAGA
As if they didn’t keep us waiting for the EU date long enough, now we have to wait for the Chinese New Year to pass
2+2=5
In this country, parties make their lists of employments in state institutions more diligently than the planning for the vaccines procurement was done.
LUXURIATING IN A SHOWER
What will be the fine for the law-abiding and the honest, to compensate for the reward the country gives to the insolent and the dishonest
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