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The death of a great idea: The rise and fall of the free individual

Ridvan Peshkopia

19.11.21

Ridvan Peshkopia Security forces’ violence against Australian, British, Italian and other citizens throughout western societies only because they continue to believe in individual freedom shows that the very idea of individual freedom is dead now. Everyone was caught...

The passivity of the institutions towards the (resurrection of) the public rooms

Ivan Durgutov

08.11.21

Ivan Durgutov MA It looks like the Macedonian society as a whole has been turned into a large public room, into a voyeuristic chamber in which everyone caresses to peek into the intimacy of a stranger and to appropriate a part of the privacy of the other. This, coupled...

It is high time to allow science and evidence to steer politics

Mladen Obrenovic

05.11.21

Mladen Obrenović At the onset of the corona crisis, the ‘spotlight’ was directed at experts for a while, because answers were expected of them. The ‘gratitude towards the virus’ for once again shining the limelight on expertise and science, on individuals and...

What are the reasons for establishing AUKUS and how France was hung out to dry

01.11.21

Viktor Jakimovski A peak behind the curtain of possibly the largest geostrategic project in the first half of the 21st century. There’s been a lot of commotion in the past few weeks concerning the strategic partnership called “AUKUS“. AUKUS is a strategic...

Awaiting the magic wand that will end the pandemic

29.10.21

Ivor Fuka At the hospital, we meet 53-year-old patient Aleksandar. He openly told the camera that they discovered large clots in his lungs and that now the doctors are not letting him out of bed in the respiratory department. Prior to this, he says, he had no health...

Government and citizens in Montenegro: Turning a deaf ear to warnings, measures and responsibility

Andrea Perišić

22.10.21

Andrea Jelić The decisions made by the former government were, as it turned out, poor. The responsibility of the new government is best illustrated by the fact that its representatives do not care about the recommendations they make themselves. Citizens, as usual, pay...

First-wave champion Greece stumbles at vaccine roll-out

Georgia Nakou

18.10.21

Georgia Nakou It is perhaps because of the euphoria brought by tourism – both the ability of Greeks themselves to enjoy a holiday, and the positive impact on the national economy – that the general public has been willing to tolerate daily case numbers...

Serbia’s road to collective immunity: Some will live to tell the story

Denis Kolundzija

15.10.21

Denis Kolundzija The enthusiasm in the first months of this year regarding the mass vaccination in Serbia was so high that in March, the country was ranked highest in Europe in terms of the number of fully vaccinated people per million inhabitants. Eight months later,...

Tear gas instead of vaccines

12.10.21

Biljana Žikić With only 48% of the population vaccinated, the impermissible missteps of the expert COVID-19 staff and with mass anti-vaccination protests, it is obvious that the vaccination campaign in Slovenia was extremely unsuccessful. Instead of persuading as...

Sex-selective Abortions: Patriarchy’s Wake-Up Call

08.10.21

Adora Limani The issue of sex-selective abortions is a wake-up call for the severity of undervalued daughters, women, and girls. This summer, I met M, a woman in her early thirties from a small town in North Macedonia. M shared with me the story of her motherhood...