Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Simonida Kacarska is a research coordinator at the European Policy Institute in Skopje, Macedonia. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Leeds in the UK. She has held research positions at the Central European University, the College of Europe, University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh project The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia. Simonida has both practitioner and research experience related to the political transformation and European integration of the Balkans, with a focus on national minority policies.
From today's perspective, it seems amazing to think that Macedonia was actually one of the frontrunners on the road...