Nikola Popovski While in Macedonia, the public is diligently discussing whether the name and the Constitution of the country should be changed, whether to give amnesty to crime and terrorism of all kinds, and whether the illegally acquired property of the aforementioned protagonists should be confiscated, in conditions when the institutions are in active phase […]
Nikola Popovski The Macedonian political crisis is not acute, nor it is a process, it is probably a state and a condition that threatens to be “a new normality”. No matter how optimistic you are, and looking on possible perspectives through pink glasses, it all seems to be in vain. When a political crisis is […]
Nikola Popovski Exactly two decades ago, in 1998, the famous British sociologist and professor Anthony Giddens, who gained worldwide fame when he became the main reformer and ideologist of the Labour Party under Tony Blair, was one of the promoters of accepting the new reality in the world – and that was the process of […]
Nikola Popovski The data on the movement of the economy in Macedonia give us different signals from which it is not possible simply and easily to get an image of what actually happens and in which direction it moves. It is probable that the transition period from an economic position that we had with the […]
Nikola Popovski The collapse of the bipolar world in the late 1980s and early 1990s opened up new opportunities for many countries to try to find their place in the world that is being rearranged. Some, like the United States, tried to make it unipolar and this seemed possible in the mid-1990s, but soon the […]
It’s summertime now and a large part of the population uses annual vacation days, resting more or less from everyday work and other responsibilities, or is away from the place of permanent residence, whether it is in its native region, somewhere in Macedonia or abroad. It contributes for the attention and tensions over public and […]
There is a lot of talk and commenting these days about a certain Macedonian state institution and its policies. It is about the State Fund for Innovation and Technological Development. The controversies surrounding the Fund have rose up to the clouds. And it is completely justified. The Government of Macedonia leads an aggressive interventionist policy […]
These days, everyone hopes that Macedonia can become a NATO member within 12-18 months, and that pre-accession negotiations for EU membership can start in the same period, which according to objective expectations can be completed no later than 10 years. The Slovenian Ambassador, for example, with very good will and optimism, recently in a television […]
The many different wars that are taking place in the world we live in, this year another one was undoubtedly added – the global trade war. Perhaps the name “war” for this type of policy led by countries in the world is a bit pretentious, but the consequences of it can be equal to a […]
The agreement that was signed between Macedonia and Greece in the Prespa village of Nivici will be very important for Macedonia, whatever it may happen to it in the next 12-18 months. It will cause tectonic ethnic, political, sociological, economic, security and other movements in Macedonia, which will be much smaller in Greece. Although it […]
A few days ago, the State Statistical Office published data on the number of births in Macedonia in the period 1994-2017. The data was not worrying, but alarming. 31,421 children were born in 1994, 23,361 in 2004, and 21,754 children in 2017, that is, Macedonia in the past two and a half decades lost about […]
Nikola Popovski If there was no deceptive foreign and internal politics of Nikola Gruevski and his government, the problem with the name of our country would now have a completely new dimension. Their hasty attempts at antiquization of Macedonia from September 2006 to March 2008, when they started renaming everything in the country with the […]
Nikola Popovski Within the framework of its edition of Working Research papers, the World Bank has recently published a very interesting paper by the authors S. Djankov and E. Nikolova, otherwise Bulgarian researchers that have long been working at universities and research institutes in the UK. Britain and Germany. The work, originally entitled “Communism as […]
Nikola Popovski During the 80s of the 20th century, socialism and socialist state economies around the world began very seriously to manifest all the systemic deficiencies that had gone through their societies for decades, and in economic terms, the most important thing was that the market, and market mechanisms were seriously or completely suppressed by […]
Nikola Popovski It is known that in times of economic expansion, welfare is growing, and the most important economic indicators are moving in a positive direction – GDP growth, employment and investment also, foreign trade is rising, and unemployment is declining. In times of recession, however, it is the other way round. If economies operate […]
Nikola Popovski No one has the illusion that the Macedonian economy is doing well. As if a strange consensus was established in every country and in international organizations dealing with economic issues that things did not go well. Such a consensus is not accidental. It is based on facts. In fact, the economy, if you […]
