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1<\/span> The Italian national press agency ANSA published that an employee at a public hospital in Catanzaro, southern Italy, didn\u2019t turn up to work for 15 years, but was paid a monthly salary. He was accused of forgery, aggravated extortion and abuse of office, and was paid 538,000 euros for the period he was skipping work. Six other managers at the hospital are under investigation.<\/p>\n

The news is local, but my fellow journalists found it bizarre enough to take it, so it was published by a dozen other relevant world press agencies and media.<\/p>\n

Here, 1,349 people didn\u2019t go to work and received salaries for over 10 years, and these guys got upset over just one man in Italy and over just half a million euros. They even went so far as to start an investigation. Let them come here, they\u2019d be able to write not one but thousands of news in a row. For 10 years, no one even looked for them at work, for 3 years, the previous minister Damjan Manchevski begged them to turn up at work and he eventually gave up on them and on politics, we opened them a brand new Ministry of Moving-People-In, we made up a deputy prime minister for them \u2013 first of his kind, and now \u2013 the director of the State Market Inspectorate Stojko Paunovski is in the wrong because he didn\u2019t know where to allocate the 35 people sent to him by Artan Grubi. All of them want to work in the towns where Stojko doesn\u2019t need them, on top of that they don\u2019t want to work in the field, and want to sit in an office instead. And Stojko says that they don\u2019t have any offices and that he doesn\u2019t want to hire them so they could just stay at home again. Surely the director of one of the most hard-pressed state institutions in the Covid crisis knows which people he needs and where he needs them. And now, it\u2019s his fault that he doesn\u2019t want them to get paid for not working. Why? Because the party that sent him the lists for employment fought for human rights.<\/p>\n

What about the human rights of all those who pay their taxes to provide the salaries for the human rights fighters? Over Stojko\u2019s dead body?<\/p>\n

2<\/span> It\u2019s not about Stojko. It\u2019s about our great expectations of this Government. And \u2013 in proportion to the expectations \u2013 great disappointments. So far, we\u2019ve been like \u2013 let them be, they\u2019re making dumb mistakes, but we\u2019ll let it slide because they\u2019re doing great things as well. We were supposed to join NATO, to start the EU accession talks, to dismantle VMRO-DPMNE\u2019s machinery in all state institutions, to restore the country\u2019s international reputation, to strengthen the country\u2019s security.<\/p>\n

But, here you go, as the local elections approach and the debate over urban policies intensifies, you realize that the disappointment is twofold. First, because on a local level SDSM didn\u2019t change VMRO-DPMNE\u2019s policies, and although they promised they\u2019d change them, they continued trying to pull off the same boorish tricks. And second, if SDSM is punished and VMRO-DPMNE comes into power, it will be the same as it was four years ago. If SDSM failed to change the urban plans, although they were determined to do it, why would they be changed by the one who passed those plans? So \u2013 there\u2019s no escaping an urban chaos.<\/p>\n

And then they\u2019ll blame the citizens for not going to the polls, or for casting an invalid vote. Some are tired of the Government Stojkoing around and have given up on everything because the Government doesn\u2019t understand what they want. As for the Government, they don\u2019t listen to the ones who kindly point things out, and will even get into an argument with them. Finally, they\u2019ll accuse the ones who didn\u2019t vote of being irresponsible. And why would people be responsible, when the Government are irresponsible? On top of being irresponsible, they\u2019re even pretending to be powerless.<\/p>\n

3<\/span> The Macedonian-Bulgarian historical commission is still stuck on the Middle Ages. The European future of Macedonia is stuck in Bulgaria. \u00a0The European Union is stuck on Macedonia. I mean, the European Union is stuck in general, but they use Macedonia as a nice excuse.<\/p>\n

When we signed the Framework Agreement in 2001, the EU promised an accelerated integration.<\/p>\n

Then, in 2005, for the first time in Macedonia\u2019s case, being granted a candidate status didn\u2019t mean opening the accession talks.<\/p>\n

In 2009, the recommendation of the European Commission to open the accession talks wasn\u2019t accepted for the first time.<\/p>\n

In June 2018 they said we\u2019d start the accession talks in June 2019.<\/p>\n

In June 2019 they said we\u2019d start the accession talks in October 2019.<\/p>\n

In October 2019 they said we\u2019d start the accession talks in March 2020.<\/p>\n

In March 2020 they said it would be November 2020.<\/p>\n

In November 2020 came Bulgaria\u2019s veto.<\/p>\n

And what came to pass on our way to the EU? The Russian Embassy in Skopje reminded us with a twit that:\u201d80 years ago, on 18 April 1941, Bulgaria, then an ally of fascist Germany, invaded Macedonia. Two months later the Nazis invaded the USSR. Eternal glory to the Russians, the Macedonians and other brave soldiers who fought against the Nazi plague. #Death to fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n

So much for EU\u2019s selfishness. First, they used to please Macron so the domestic nationalists would like him better. Then, they continued to please Borisov and Karakachanov so they would be liked by the nationalists. And now, they\u2019re wondering how Russia entered their home?<\/p>\n

Truth be told, it entered our home as well. But only in the army, the police force, the judiciary, the prosecutors, the journalists and the Assembly. And by what means \u2013 just through a needle.<\/p>\n

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Translated by Nikola Gjelincheski<\/p>\n

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