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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Balkans Brexit fallout
Some may wish the EU would simply honour its earlier commitment to integrate the Balkans region, but the time for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Greece & Macedonia: negotiating history doesn’t make it true
Geopolitical expediency has forced a people to bargain with the only name history has left them. Reflect on this,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macedonia and ideology
Somewhere between our imagination, truth and the others’ desires we move, in different paths, towards the 'Macedonia...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Could Macedonia become a Balkan success story?
Since the election of a reformist, social democratic government, Macedonians are seeing surprising shoots of hope in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macedonia and rightwing banality: history as myth machine
In Thessaloniki this January a libertarian squat was burnt down during a “march for Macedonia”. Who was marching ?...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Turning the Macedonian tables: what if the solution to the identity issue is the basis for solving the name of the state?
Perhaps an identity-related distinction rather than a geographical one could resolve the dispute more swiftly and on...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The five 'infections' of the social democratic 'family' in the Western Balkans
Social democracy is failing all across Europe; but it's impotence in the Balkans especially is having serious...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What the hell is going on in Macedonia?
A maelstrom of scandals, drama, violence and anger has seen Macedonia sliding towards collapse in recent months,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macedonia’s elections: how the EU continues to fail the Western Balkans
It may seem like nothing has changed in Macedonia after Sunday's elections, but look closer and you will see the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Talk Real in Skopje: back to the Colourful Revolution
A week before the Parliamentary elections in Macedonia, what are the political expectations after the recent social...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Democracy, 25 years after Yugoslavia
Just how democratic are the former Yugoslav countries today?
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Published in: 50.50The global pulse of young feminists organising
Young feminists are organising across movements in an intersectional way, locally, nationally and regionally, and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?You are the border, not us: Greek – Macedonia border
UNHCR, the leading UN refugee protection agency, is supporting the enforcement of border restrictions designed to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Border games and their pawns
Balkan borders dominoed shut last week, ostensibly to block ‘economic migrants’, and now only Syrians, Afghans and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macedonia's long year: scandal, protest and revolution in the Balkans
One of the co-ordinators of the protests in Macedonia gives us a personal insight into the country's dysfunctional...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macedonia: the authoritarian challenge to Europe
Macedonia's "hybrid regime" poses a serious threat to Europe, and the EU needs to act now before it's too late.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macedonia: anatomy of a crisis
Like putting a plaster on a wound that has not been cleaned, an EU-mediated deal to stabilise (but not necessarily...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From pro-American to pro-Russian? Nikola Gruevski as a political chameleon
A former staunch ally of the US-led War on Terror, Macedonia PM Nikola Gruevski has gradually turned his country...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The deep roots of Macedonia's current turmoil – and the way forward
The country must avoid just replacing the driver in the seat of a captured state machinery - by increasing inclusion...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?And where do we go from here? Macedonia and the EU
From today's perspective, it seems amazing to think that Macedonia was actually one of the frontrunners on the road...