A drunk driver runs a red light and slams into a crowd of pedestrians, gravely injuring several. If this happened in Macedonia, the headline in Western media would be: “Pedestrians Cause Car Accident, Major Damage to Vehicle”. Imagine that every headline and news story about your ethnic group is rife with misinformation and designed to eradicate the existence of your ethnic identity. But why? Because Macedonia’s oppressors demand it, and Western countries choose to support them for the benefit of their own imperialist foreign policies. Specif…
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. - Martin Niemöller I am writing on behalf of all Macedonian people who live in the Republic of Macedonia, the neighboring countries and all the countries in the world where Macedonians reside. Today, in…
Exactly 4922 Macedonian citizens applied for asylum in one of the EU countries last year, which is a significant increase compared to 2020, when the number was 1230 asylum applications. Most of them tried to find refuge in Germany. The data provided by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) shows a general upward trend in the numbers of asylum seekers as before the pandemic, but Macedonia is highlighted as one of the countries with a drastic increase in numbers. While there were 1230 asylum seekers in European countries in 2020, the num…
Shortly before a vote of no confidence in his government (Thursday), the Macedonian Prime Minister and head of the Association of Social Democrats SDSM, Zoran Zaev, postponed the resignation he had announced. The SDSM party leadership decided yesterday evening, media reported in Skopje. Members of the party leadership had unanimously decided that Zaev should remain in his offices “until the processes in the country normalize”. Zaev himself confirmed the information, saying that he wanted to help maintain the parliamentary majority and, if poss…
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced his resignation as prime minister and head of his party late Sunday following the heavy defeat of his governing Social Democratic Union in Macedonia's local elections. "The responsibility for this outcome is mine and I'm resigning as prime minister and as leader of the Social Democratic Union," Zaev said at a news conference at party headquarters. Although official results were not yet in from the local elections, Zaev conceded defeat in the most important contest — the mayor's race in…
Late on Sunday evening, the leaders of the two largest political parties on the Macedonian political scene declared victory in the local elections. While waiting for the official and final results of the state electoral commission, both VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM declared victory in the first round in a number of municipalities, but also a head start for the second round of elections, which will take place in two weeks (October 31). - SDSM and the coalition won in the first round or have a serious lead over VMRO-DPMNE in more than 30 municipalities …
Macedonia is the only country in the region and in Europe that does not have an archaeological institute. For this reason, according to Pero Ardzanliev from the Archaeological Museum, there are hardly any publications in the field of archaeology in our country. This was underlined at the forum of the Macedonian National Blue Shield Committee on the subject of "Theft of museum objects and illegal trade in cultural goods", in which Maja Konevska, the public prosecutor of the General Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Organ…
According to the former Bulgarian Prime Minister, many months and a lot of time have been missed, and at the same time “great tension has been created in Macedonia, in Albania and in the whole EU against Bulgaria. “Bulgaria has missed many months to explain its position,” Boyko Borisov said, adding that “generations of young Macedonians and Albanians currently hate Bulgaria.” Borisov has a firm stand that a compromise must and can be made. According to Borisov, at the EU-Western Balkans Summit Radev “will lie once again”. “He always promised…
The Macedonian daily newspaper Nova Makedonija with an article about ethnic Macedonians who live in Australia, but originate from neighboring Greece. There, in the EU state Greece, their ethnicity is not recognized and the minority is negated. A census in Australia reveals this, reports Nova Makedonija. At a time when Macedonia is constantly and seriously attacked by its neighbors, our compatriots in the diaspora are struggling in every way to prove their right to self-determination as ethnic Macedonians. Nova Makedonija recently published a…
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