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1<\/span> We celebrated the 150 years jubilee of Goce Delchev\u2019s birth. He\u2019s a historical figure born in the 19th<\/sup> century, who became an obstacle to Macedonia\u2019s progress towards the EU because some joint Macedonian-Bulgarian commission in the 21st<\/sup> century can\u2019t come to an agreement which country he belongs to more. Yes, yes\u2026 That\u2019s how things stand. We\u2019re not dreaming. We\u2019re not fantasizing. Nor are we drugged. The truth is that an EU member state vetoes the start of negotiations of a neighbouring country, because it denies the personal feeling of ethnicity of someone born 150 years ago. And not only do they not recognize Goce Delchev as a Macedonian, who died almost 120 years ago, they don\u2019t recognize even us the living as Macedonians.<\/p>\n

More than a century ago, Goce Delchev dreamed of a world as a field for cultural competition. We too dream of a world in which his idea of progress will come to fruition, so that\u2019s why we chose the path to the EU. Because we believe in the civilizational values the EU promotes as indisputable. However, what we\u2019ve faced in that progressive and developed EU is their tolerance without objection for the behaviour of a member state that doesn\u2019t understand the world as a field for cultural competition, but as a field for flexing muscles as a bully. Would you believe it, we\u2019re struggling to get the EU to recognize the language we speak.<\/p>\n

The world Goce Delchev dreamed of \u2013 simply doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

2<\/span>\u00a0About ten parents in a school in Gostivar signed a petition that they don\u2019t want their children to study with a girl with Down syndrome. So what did the school do? They moved the girl to a separate room to study alone, so she\u2019d stay away from the other kids.<\/p>\n

And now, we\u2019ll start moralizing about how bad the parents are, how inhumane they are, how mean we all are, a people without any compassion, selfish, crude, uncivilized, uneducated\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s horrifying that there\u2019s the sort of people who got together and wrote a petition to \u201cprotect\u201d their children with \u201cnormal needs\u201d from a girl their age with special needs. However, what\u2019s even more horrifying is that that petition was accepted by the system. The problem isn\u2019t the petition or the ones who wrote it. The petition would be useless if the system worked. Is there a Constitution? Are there laws? Is there a principal in that school, are there education inspectors, is there a teachers\u2019 council, a pedagogue, a psychologist, a parent council, a mayor who appoints the principal\u2026 There\u2019s a whole hierarchy and infrastructure of people in the institutions who were simply not doing their job. Those people allowed the parents\u2019 petition to turn into law, and didn\u2019t protect the child\u2019s rights to education.<\/p>\n

In the case of little Embla from Gostivar it turned out that the voices of the people who don\u2019t accept the differently abled were so strong because the state failed. If there had been institutions or capable people in those institutions who were just supposed to do their job according to the law, those parents who don\u2019t respect the differently abled would have been silent.<\/p>\n

This case, once again, faced us with the reality that the institutions are not there for us. It doesn\u2019t matter if you have special or regular needs. It doesn\u2019t matter whether you need to fulfill your right to medical care or your right to education. Be it a medical check-up appointment by the state for a blood test for Covid-19 in case you have symptoms, or to right the wrongs done to you by the principal if you have a child with special needs.\u00a0 Institutions are not there when you need them. You\u2019re on your own.<\/p>\n

If you want your problem solved you have to appear on the news and make it public. And we can\u2019t all appear on the news.<\/p>\n

3<\/span> It\u2019s tragic that with such initial enthusiasm for change and support to eliminate corruption, after six years, it\u2019s VMRO-DPMNE\u2019s turn to be vociferous about corruption, the party which didn\u2019t even apologize for the epic robbery they committed during the 11 years of their rule.<\/p>\n

However, what\u2019s even more tragic is that SDSM keeps thinking of independent voters as enemies because they didn\u2019t go to the polls to vote for them during the local elections. That\u2019s who they blame for their defeat and keep being mad at them and rubbing it in \u2013 do you see who won just because you didn\u2019t vote? They don\u2019t accept that it could also be because of their bad and above all incompetent rule since they\u2019ve managed to revitalize VMRO-DPMNE and now, having risen to moral heights, they have the opportunity to count every bite of food they eat in restaurants and to preach at them about corruption.<\/p>\n

The leader, Hristijan Mickoski, even stated that \u201cthe time when have-nots entered politics and came out as millionaires is over\u201d. What put an end to that time? The event on 13 November 2018 when their leader, along with the millions he had stolen, posted on Facebook \u201cI\u2019m in Budapest at the moment\u201d? Or the day when Mickoski, working as his father\u2019s assistant at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, became the owner of hydropower plants?<\/p>\n

4<\/span> VMRO-DPMNE announced that Mickoski met with Russian Ambassador Sergei Bazdnikin and that he complained that Macedonia is \u201cmarking a political and economic stagnation in terms of our strategic goals for EU membership.\u201d<\/p>\n

I wonder what the Russian ambassador thought when the leader of the largest opposition party in a NATO member state complained that we can\u2019t join the EU? Mickoski found the right guy to complain to. Bazdnikin must have comforted him in the spirit of the Russian classics. He probably said: \u201cWhy the hell would you want to join NATO in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Translated by Nikola Gjelincheski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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