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European Union is about to reach an agreement on Covid travel passports

29.06.21

As the EU members are adjusting to join the common COVID passport system, other countries will have to comply with the EU and WHO principles. Officials in the region say it will not be easy to set up a single system of Covid passports. The tens of thousands of citizens...

Journalists demand that their work be properly valued

03.05.21

These days when courts are rejecting the lawsuits of the journalists who managed to escape alive from the Parliament building on 27 April 2017, they (journalists) demand systemic changes that will protect their safety, ensure better working conditions and proper...

The Balkans is far from herd immunity against COVID 19

30.03.21

A group of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina has filed criminal charges against the authorities. They demand responsibility for the vaccine delays and the high number of deaths from the virus. Despite the mass-scale vaccination, Serbia is far from herd immunity with...

The Balkans is increasingly sending Eurosceptic tones

26.02.21

The European Union has not met expectations it promised to the Balkan countries, hence the people are angry and disappointed. The interlocutors from the region who follow the European processes say for this #ResPublicaMK podcast that the EU will not easily regain the...

The Jewish community is waiting for an apology and recognition from Bulgaria for more than 70 years

29.01.21

Goran Sadikarijo from the Holocaust Fund of the Jews from Macedonia says that every coin has two sides: for Bulgaria, one of the sides is the rescue of the Jews, and the other side is the deportation. “When they themselves will be ready and aware of the crimes...

Knaus and Biber: Sofia is under pressure to give up the veto against Skopje

30.11.20

An increasing number of European governments are calling in Sofia and saying that the veto is unreasonable. You have to give it up. If that does not happen, no one will blame Skopje, and that is important”, said Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative....

What is the cost to the Balkans from the prematurely relaxed COVID-19 measures?

26.06.20

The number of people infected with COVID-19 in all Balkan countries is increasing. Part of the public accuses the authorities in Serbia and Macedonia of prematurely relaxing the preventive measures by flirting with the electorate in the run-up to the elections in both...