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May 2021 be the year of vaccination against the COVID – authoritarianism

Karolina Ristova Aasterud

20.01.21

The blog is part of the joint Res Publica and Project Syndicate publication, “The Pandemic of Fear”. Prof. Karolina Ristova – Aasterud Ph.D. The critical minority does not view 2020 just as a year that brought us the pandemics but also as a year that brought...

Universities in Macedonia and their Role in Creating a Sustainable Civil Society

18.01.21

Artan Limani, Cassie L. Barnhardt, Jeff Lai, and Solomon Fenton-Miller At present, few projects or initiatives in Macedonia have focused on how universities prepare students for social responsibility and citizenship. University education is a...

Global Climate Change Commitments: What Next?

Rachel Galloway

15.01.21

Rachel Galloway One month has passed since the world came together at the Climate Ambition Summit, hosted on 12 December last year by the UK, UN and France alongside our partners Italy & Chile. It was a challenging year as countries across the world struggled with...

The new law that signals a new era of censorship in Turkey

Kaan Bayırakoşan

15.01.21

Kaan Bayırakoşan The Turkish government has new demands from social media and digital platforms such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Twitter. If those platforms do not fulfill the requirements, they can be shut down by the government. 2021 will be the year we...

The expectations that Sofia will unblock the Macedonian European integration are unrealistic

Lyudmil Iliev

13.01.21

Ljudmil Iliev While Skopje hopes that the upcoming elections in Bulgaria are one of the reasons for the firm stance of the government of Bojko Borisov, if you look deeper, the outcome of the elections in Bulgaria in any option will not soften the position of Sofia in...

Historical Revisionism: Between Altering and Forgetting the Past

31.12.20

Ljubica Spaskovska The decline is obvious and all countries in the region can be said to be going through a process of setbacks, deep peripheralization, marginalization in international relations and de-globalization. In an interview made in light of the publication of...

How friendly is the Bulgaria-Macedonia Friendship Treaty?

Radosveta Vassileva

25.12.20

Radosveta Vassileva Bitterness escalated after Bulgaria’s veto on Macedonia’s accession talks due to disputes over history. Yet, a closer look may reveal that the clash between Bulgaria and Macedonia was foreseeable. When Bulgaria and Macedonia signed their...

Lessons from the nation that tested its entire population

Michaela Ružičková

21.12.20

Michaela Ružičková We should not consider it as a failure, but it has to be said that it resulted only in temporary decline of spreading the virus. On the other hand, spreading disinformation had more significant consequences. The end of October brought an...

The death that ignited protests in a generation that has lost hope

Nertila Maho

18.12.20

Nertila Maho Ironically the measures that aim to save lives in this pandemic, for the first time caused the tragic death of a young man. It was 8th of December when two gunshots took the life of 25-year-old Klodian Rasha. The weapon was fired by a police officer and...

Waning Trust Instead of a More Credible Process for EU enlargement

Jovana Marovic

14.12.20

Jovana Marovic The long-awaited and much-needed impetus in EU enlargement policy that the new methodology was supposed to bring is still “on hold”. Western Balkans countries are not informed of the specific elements and frameworks that should round up and...