Prime Minister Zoran Zaev received the 2020 Human Rights Award of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in Berlin on Monday. But, if one searches a little who is behind this organization, it turns out that Zaev awarded the award to himself. Milan Zivkovic, one of Zaev’s advisers, is the director of the Skopje office of the German organization.
Zivkovic is Zaev’s current adviser, who receives a salary of 60,000 denars. He advises the Prime Minister on issues related to labor and social policy.
To add to the irony, Zaev receives a human rights award in Germany on the day when Bulgaria vetoed the start of Macedonia’s EU accession negotiations and demands that we renounce the basic human right to self-determination. And when Germany is the country holding the EU presidency.
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