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In the interview that VMRO-DPMNE's leader Hristijan Mickoski gave to the Croatian newspaper “Vecernji List” there are many controversial moments. What is unusual is that in his effort to defend the French president on his "no" to…

The Macedonian identity was never abolished so there is no need for Mickoski to retrieve it, and Macedonianism as a system of values is quite opposite to the understanding of Macedonia as a "decent place to live in" …

  If official Paris was not satisfied with the European Commission’s reports or if they had insights that some countries falsely encouraged the Macedonian authorities, then they should have resolved the issue inside the Union. In this…

The costs of the difficult implementation of the Law on the Use of Languages in the healthcare or the inaccessibility to quick and fair justice, as a consequence of this law, for example, are much higher than "symbolic" …

VMRO-DPMNE, which is the most affected party by the work of the Special Public prosecutor’s Office, by distorting the truth that SPO served Zaev only for racketeering and allegedly spent 12 million euros in public money, besmears all cases…

During the discussion on the program “Top Tema” on the TV channel Telma, immediately after the end of the ministerial meeting of the EU member states in Luxemburg, where the issue of starting the negotiations with our country was postponed…

There isn’t a single nation that can be characterized as “wild animals”. There is no such nation, a nation “without an identity” or a “heartless nation”. Stereotypes, insults and chauvinist statements! And to this instance of hate speech,…

President Ivanov justifies his failure to sign decrees making the already passed laws official with the oath of office he took. He says the oath back then stated he would defend the interests and the Constitution of the Republic of…

Regardless of the proposals for full or partial amnesty, on 27 April last year doors of the Parliament were opened, blood was shed and there were masked people giving orders… In fact, legal experts numbered 28 crimes back then.

Perhaps Gruevski doesn’t know what the Macedonian cause really is. Perhaps he has a different opinion on what it should be, that’s why he gave names like “Todor Aleksandrov” and “Thessaloniki Congress” to parking garages… But one thing is…

The Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski cannot clear himself or the executive branch of power from the responsibility over the second escape of persons indicted by the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) or convicted. This has been…

The referendum was consultative and the only definite fact is more than 600 thousand that voted “for”. The MPs, on the other hand, by the Constitution have the right to decide whether they will pay heed to the ones who voted, the ones who…

Offering a way out of the crisis by substituting the SPO with another objective prosecutor’s office for prosecuting organized crime and corruption is a sheer truth spinning. With this offer, Mickoski has de facto confirmed that amnesty is…

Citizens’ sovereignty is best demonstrated by their participation in a referendum, as the most direct demonstration of their sovereignty in their own country. It precedes the indirect form - transfering their sovereignty onto the MPs.…

If you read Hristijan Mickoski’s entire speech, and furthermore analyze his previous speeches and addresses on this matter, it becomes clear that the public is presented with a great deal of feigned explanations that the Agreement…

Parliament’s decision to reduce the reimbursement for MPs’ travel expenses and the previous amendment of the law are sheer cover-up – an amendment without an essence, which will result in further hefty and unrealistic Budget money drain…

Part of the annual address of the President of the Republic of Macedonia was devoted to the “fake news”. Are the euphoric statements of Gjorge Ivanov, PhD, against fake news weighable? Are President Ivanov’s statements based on facts or are…

Two fat spins were made by Ivanov on the Parliament floor in his annual address – that the UBK has been the generator of all the crises in Macedonia and that the fake news require the introduction of new laws, monitoring, fines...