Popovski on “freezing” fair tax: Such measures are taken only by far-right governments


University Professor Nikola Popovski, former senior SDSM official, views the government’s move to “freeze” progressive taxation as wrong. He says such measures are only taken by far-right governments, although the headquarters on Ilinden Street, according to him, was under pressure in this case from just a small group of people burdened with taxation. Popovski says […]

Is there a hug for Macedonia?


Nikola Popovski Does anyone remember when the Russians and Serbs last held joint military exercises before October 2019? Probably in October 1944 when the Red Army liberated them from the Nazis and internal collaborators and handed free Belgrade to left-wing political forces in Serbia, then proceeded to Budapest and Vienna. This current exercise, held at […]

Blackmail and threats


Nikola Popovski It is already clear as daylight that in 2019 the EU will not make a decision to start Macedonia’s EU accession negotiations due to France’s negative stance towards our country and that the issue will be re-examined in 2020, although we already know that in 2020 the Union will announce that the issue […]

The administration is slow and creates problems


Nikola Popovski On one occasion, the icon of economic ultra-neoclassicism, the famous economist and Professor Friedrich Hayek, wrote that the basic task of economic theory is to explain how to adapt to the unknown. “It is undeniable that the constant changes in economic activity are caused by a number of factors that no one knows […]

The year announced as the year of economy


Nikola Popovski This year, which was announced to primarily be the year of economy, unfortunately, will probably be only remembered as the year of racketeering. Even if some average economic results are achieved, they will remain overshadowed by the apparent debacle of the country’s institutions. After nearly two thirds of this year have passed, economic […]

Why is our export to the EU so high?


Nikola Popovski Our country, which represents only 0.4 percent of the EU population and only 0.065 percent (0.65 percent) of the scope of its economy, has a population standard measured by the GDP per capita indicator at a level of 16 percent of the average of the EU (4,800 versus 30,000 euros per capita in […]

The reshuffle and after


Nikola Popovski The Government reshuffle that was long announced, which turned into a key, and perhaps even the only argument for Stevo Pendarovski’s victory in the second round of presidential elections, was intended to answer many of the issues for which the current government did not even come close to delivering adequate responses, turned into […]

New Bulgarian Sovereignty


Nikola Popovski The signing of the state treaty between Macedonia and Bulgaria was a risky move for both parties. On one hand, the treaty can contribute to improving the relations between the two countries, which only the completely naive or uninformed consider them to be or have been good, and on the other hand, it […]

The Population Problem of Macedonia


Nikola Popovski One of the most important traditional features of the population on the European continent, which belongs to Macedonia, is that the continent’s population belongs to the white race and has been Christianized throughout history. These two characters today have not changed, but are under pressure and threats that in the future they can […]

Economic problems and challenges


NIKOLA POPOVSKI  Each spring the financial elite from around the world traditionally gathers in Washington within the spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF. Finance Ministers and central bank governors with their aides, bankers and investors, professors and scientists… various worldly people with their various financial, economic, political and other interests. They, together […]

Power and wealth


Nikola Popovski At the beginning of each year in the already famous town of Davos in Switzerland a gathering takes place in the form of a forum of the rich and powerful, which is pretentiously called the World Economic Forum. Yes, according to the attendance and structure of the participants, this gathering is both ‘world’ […]