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Teuta Arifi: Europe is Macedonia’s Best Hope
Sticking to the path of European integration offers the best hope for Macedonia to overcome the tensions aggravated by the recent killings in Skopje, says the Vice-Prime Minister in charge of European Affairs.
Silvana Boneva: No Excuses Remain to Oppose Lustration
Announcing Macedonia’s new lustration bill, the coordinator of the ruling VMRO DPMNE caucus in parliament says the left can no longer conceal its opposition behind complaints about bias and transparency.
Trailer About Tito’s Space Plans Thrills Ex-Yugoslavs
The trailer for a Slovene docudrama that suggests America bought its space programme from Tito’s Yugoslavia has had almost a million net views. Balkan Insight spoke to authors Bostjan and Ziga Virc.
Margarita Tsatsa – Nikolovska: Discontent in Macedonian Judiciary is Permanent
In an exclusive interview for the Balkan Insight, Judge Margarita Tsatsa – Nikolovska discusses the current hot legal topics in Macedonia, from lustration process to the shape of the nation’s judiciary.
Filmmaker Vladimir Blazevski Says Punk’s Not Dead
Macedonian producer Darko Popov reflects on the acclaimed black comedy of Vladimir Blazevski, "Punk’s not Dead" and the struggle to produce and promote films in the Balkans.
MEP 'Honoured to be Called Enemy of Macedonia'
Slovenian MEP Jelko Kacin accuses government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of manipulating the media, provoking Greece, reversing reforms and says 'it's an honour to be labeled an enemy of Macedonia these days'.
Macedonia Must End Bilateral Row to Reach Europe
Former EU ambassador to Macedonia, Peter Sorensen, says solving the dispute with Greece is key to the country’s hopes of joining the European club.
Davutoglu: ‘I’m Not a Neo-Ottoman’
The Turkish foreign minister on why Turkey is a Balkan country, neo-Ottomanism, achieving lasting peace in the region and relations with Serbia and Macedonia.
‘Some Balkan ‘Citizens’ Count for Less Than Zero’
Workers on strike, poverty, refugee rights, the ‘erased’ and access to healthcare, jobs and education are just some of the under-reported justice issues in the Balkans, says writer and academic Igor Stiks.
Talat Xhaferi: Marty Report Vilifies All Albanians
Key member of Macedonia’s governing ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration says Marty report besmirches all Albanians but this should not stop a competent investigation.
Turning Macedonia’s Fearful World Into Art
Velimir Zernovski discusses tackling prejudice and phobia in art – and insists that there’s never been a better time or place to be socially engaged artist.
Macedonia Must Work Harder to Lure Investors
As a small country with no obvious comparative advantages, Macedonia has to go the extra mile to attract outside capital, Vladimir Gligorov, of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, explains.
Monumental Approach Will Erode Skopje’s Old Harmony
Macedonia’s capital is paying a price for society’s lack of proper ‘architectural culture’ as politicians and ill-informed pseudo-intellectuals force their retrograde visions onto the city, architect Mishko Ralev says.
US Mediation Key to Solving Macedonia Name Dispute
Kosovo’s dispute with Serbia and Macedonia’s with Greece need to be solved in tandem - and both require international mediation, says Aleksandar Matovski, former adviser to Macedonia’s former prime minister, now at Cornell University.
Gordan Georgiev: 'Time to Break the Fear Gripping Macedonia'
The vice-president of Macedonia’s opposition Social Democrats tells Balkan Insight the party is ready to do battle against Nikola Gruevski’s government, which has led the country into a dead-end.
