Category: Columns
Columns 04.11.21 | 11:50

Zaev’s Fata Morgana

It must be a Fata Morgana! Zoran Zaev’s most recent “resignation” to both positиons, i.e. that of Prime Minister and President of SDSM party, is yet another mirage. As was also the case with his “resignation” a couple of years ago following the French “Non!” to opening negotiations for...

Columns 22.01.20 | 18:35

Zoran Zaev says “F — — — the name”

He also tells a whopper of a lie Two items this week: Zoran Zaev admits he does not care about Macedonia’s name, and he lies about what to expect if the center-right governs Macedonia and reinstates Macedonia’s rightful, and only, name. Zoran Zaev, by his own admission, does not care about the name,...

Columns 18.01.20 | 21:40

Terra incognita

By Zoran Dabic President of the Macedonian Diplomatic Union The term terra incognita is used in cartography to describe regions that are still unknown, un-mapped, undocumented. Reaching this unknown terrain was always a great challenge for adventurers and those brave in spirit. Men and women who would...

Columns 24.10.19 | 23:01

Give President Macron a break!

By Pavle Mikow The day after the EU Summit, I was reading the Twitter installment of Ambassador Gerard Araud, current French ambassador to the US and former ambassador of France to the United Nations here in New York, during which time I worked and closely collaborated with Ambassador Araud on a variety...

Macedonia Columns 26.08.19 | 13:52

Mickoski: They may have temporarily changed their clothing, but not their character

The nation is happy…, we are shining…, we got the new candidate for finance minister, a successful person, in her mature thirties and a lot of successful ventures in the past, with a great personal portfolio, with some stolen ideas and quite by accident is kept in the MoI register as a perpetrator...

Columns 30.01.19 | 12:19

The „bomb“ tales

Because the public is once again occupied about the status of the Special Prosecutors Office (gSPO), and closely connected with the SPO is also the future of the illegally intercepted communication, widely known as “bombs”, I consider that some things shouldn’t be left unsaid or unanalyzed. Also,...

Columns 21.01.19 | 11:17

Talat Xhaferi’s insidious attack

There is no Law without a decree signed by the President of the Republic of Macedonia Publishing the Law on the use of languages and the Law on ratification of the final agreement for the settlement of the differences over the name with the Republic of Greece in the Official Gazette of  without the...

Columns 11.01.19 | 11:46

If the court decides impartially

The legal system is a reflection of a state. All segments of a society depend on the legal system, which is connected to the political system of the state, meaning the form of the state, to the financial relations, to the security provisions, political action, civic action, trade, transport, health,...

Columns 03.01.19 | 12:35

The year in which we defeated ourselves

The title of this column would be great for a subtitle contained in the last chapter of a history book that would be written in 2048. I want to believe that it would be the last chapter because of historical distance and not because of the uncertainty of the further survival of those who will be mentioned...

Columns 20.12.18 | 23:18

From Bloody Thursday to Black Friday

If there is a sincere desire for reconciliation, it can only be accomplished with full amnesty of everyone involved The so-called reconciliation body found itself in the crosshairs. Not knowing how and what to do, it divided itself into three working groups and decided to invite Zoran Zaev to attend...

Columns 20.12.18 | 23:14

Circus at the expense of the promised economic growth

In a country that wants to become part of the European family, to integrate into the EU and NATO where democracy and the freedom of political organization and expression are undisputed, it is unacceptable that the chase that pertains to a signle person to be abused for the siege of an entire political...