Politics

Dilemmas and open questions about the future of Open Balkan

16.11.22

Can the countries of the region turn the political promises into reality for the citizens and...

How does the EC 2022 Report see the progress of Macedonian European integration?

11.11.22

The new tone of this year's report, as well as the three visits to Skopje by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in just one year, illustrate the importance that Brussels continues to dedicate to our country. Our country’s progress is...

A harsh winter ahead for Albanian families

28.10.22

No one is saying that we would have been completely immune to this global crisis, but some measures could have served as a...

Operation „Ladomirova Cemetery“: Failed Russian information cover-up

19.10.22

While mass graves with hundreds of victims of Russian aggression are found in the Ukrainian town of Izium, one of many Russian information and influence operations is underway in Slovakia. Igor Bratchikov, the Russian ambassador to Slovakia, is disseminating propaganda...

The Bulgarian-Macedonian Hala Meets EU Hypocrisy

05.08.22

While it is important to look for answers about our common history and try to discern facts from propaganda (both Bulgaria and Macedonia seem to have work to do!), is it not also important to learn to live together despite our diverging heavily politicized points of...

The rhetoric of nuclear threats as a tool for conventional warfare

29.07.22

Even in the past - especially during the Cold War - countries with nuclear capacity have, in certain cases, demonstrated their nuclear potential by using it as a deterrent or even a threatening element against other hostile...

The ill-defined accession process is damaging to EU goals in the Western Balkans

27.07.22

The positions of the Western Balkan and Eastern-European candidate states on metrics like corruption and democracy show that there is still a long way to go in many...

Improve the deal to save Europe from itself

08.07.22

“…and it became too much Rules are rules Slowly neighbours You cannot just come in and destroy what is not yours I said to them nicely Do not break my acacia trees, the winds will blow me away without them …stay away from them because I will break you...

Increasing Transparency and Compliance as a Means to Increase Trust in Parties

27.04.22

Political parties in North Macedonia continuously rank at the bottom of citizens’ trust in institutions and...

Serbia’s Media Caught Between Putinophilia and the New World Reality

Д-р Динко Грухоњиќ

01.04.22

It is difficult to shake the impression that this cult is on a much higher level than the cult of personality of Aleksandar Vucic...

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