Looking through different lenses
“A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.” – Angela Merkel In 2011, I got a merit-based scholarship to study in Thessaloniki, Greece for my undergraduate studies. ...
Hitting the EU Stars: Montenegro and Serbia towards the EU accession
A rising star is above the former State Union. Designated in Juncker’s State of the Union speech last September as frontrunners in the EU integration process, Montenegro and Serbia have ...
Women – Second Class Citizens of Macedonia
If you encountered posters for the local election campaign in Macedonia, you might get the idea that “Life is coming to Macedonia for everyone” (SDSM’s election slogan since the 2016 ...
One would expect a country that has only received one other Oscar nomination in its 30-year history – in the now-distant 1995 – to be pretty happy about getting two in ...
As we are entering the pivotal week for understanding how Brexit is going to untangle, there are obvious reasons to be anxious. If the EU will extend the negotiation period ...
After gaining their membership in NATO, and especially after the big-bang EU enlargement of 2004, the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia), used their political, diplomatic and economic ...
Around this time last year, the European Union released its Strategy for the Western Balkans, where the “credible enlargement perspective” for the six remaining “Western Balkan” countries was reiterated. Some ...
After the fall of Yugoslavia, the former Yugoslav republics, striving to gain their independence, started celebrating a certain Independence Day that was formally chosen during their secession from Yugoslavia. Bosnia ...
One more bilateral dispute is resolved at Europe’s doorstep as the disagreement over Macedonia’s name comes to an end. After surviving a confidence vote in parliament and dodging countless external ...
Co-author: Sabin Selimi The concern is not whether the EU fails to create functioning and stable countries, but that the EU’s engagement in the region leads to a loss of ...
This article is written by Lazar Pop Ivanov and Marija Mirchevska. Pop Ivanov holds an MA in International Relations from King’s College London and an LLM from the Faculty of ...
The political crisis in Macedonia that began in 2015 and allegedly ended with the change of government in 2017 seems to be as relevant as ever to understand the current ...
Originally published by EURACTIV. Macedonia is still going through a painful reconstruction as a society. But if we really believe that the Western Balkans region belongs in Europe, it ...