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"Macedonian Center for Literature"

Успешните проекти обично започнуваат како визија на даровити сонувачи. Проект што има квалитет на восхитувачка визија е за мене неодамна формираниот „Македонски центар за литература“ во Скопје. Крајно време беше да се формира организација што има за цел да ја промовира македонската литература и културата на читањето. Во здружението на граѓани околу овој проект се …

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Fourth Ilinden and fourth Macedonian republic only by joining the EU

The call of Siljanovska-Davkova sounds strong and combative, that is, revolutionary, that it is time for a fourth Ilinden and for a fourth Macedonian republic, a republic by the people and for the people. At the same time, the candidate for president of the Republic should clarify the "revolutionary" substance, i.e. what would be the characteristics of the fourth Macedonian republic compared to the current one - the third Macedonian republic, ...

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If you talk sense to a fool, he will call you a fool

In order for a person to vote for VMRO-DPMNE in 2024, he has to either be a VMRO believer or, on the other hand, he is a moron. I admit that this sentence is not quite semantically correct, because it establishes two categories of people, for whom, however, many would swear that it is only one. However, there is an important and clear difference between the two groups, ...

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Historically no smoking

And they are not pastry shops, even though there is an initiative here to ban or reduce those shops that from a distance look like children's entertainment corners, where they sell colorful candies, lollipops, lozenges and toys made of... well, mostly sugar. They just look like that. No, they are yet to come. The last years...

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A stale political offer

Is it worth it to be politically correct towards politicians? To those who have been ruining this country and this society for more than 30 years, causing with their behavior 70 percent of the young population to want to leave the country in search of a normal human life. Should we be cultured and "nice" in the pre-election and not...

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Brutality towards migrants

The Balkan migrant route, along with the one across the Mediterranean, remains the most active route for refugees to the European Union, but there are growing testimonies that the defense is accompanied by a disregard for the basic human rights of those fleeing war, hunger and misery. The European Border and Coast Guard Agency "Frontex" states that the number of violations...

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Macedonia after the elections

If all the relevant participants in the elections in Macedonia are seen as winners, and they cannot see it, or they pretend not to see the reality of the danger of a deep political crisis, then what can we expect after the elections. What kind of Macedonia will we face after May 8 - proud, dignified, reformist, European, or something...

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Is there a political crisis after the elections?

What will happen after the votes are counted in the upcoming elections? The polls predict a victory for the opposition and the formation of a VMRO-DPMNE government with their leader as prime minister. In a parliamentary multi-party system, as practice shows in stable Western democracies, the winner of the election may or may not form a government, nor the first...

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Macedonia under the scrutiny of the World Bank: economic growth or a myth?

For the fourth year in a row, Macedonia is facing the challenge of the lowest economic growth in the region, with a forecasted growth of only 2,5% for 2024. This is significantly below the government's expectation of 3,4% and far from the necessary progress for a country striving for economic growth and development. In addition to stagnant growth, the country is also struggling with...

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Russia and the Western Balkans

We are entering a very critical period of geopolitical influences in the Western Balkans (Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia). It can be critically assessed from two positions: the situation with EU enlargement (the Euro-Atlantic late-liberal ideological influence) and at the same time the influence of Russia (sporadically economic of China, especially in the context of Russian aggression on Ukraine) - eastern...

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