Brawl Breaks Out After Protesters Storm Macedonia Parliament

Protesters stormed into Macedonia’s parliament on Thursday after an ethnic Albanian was elected as speaker. A brawl broke out injuring scores of people, including the Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev, who was left with blood pouring down his face. The protesters, supporters of ex-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO party, are demanding new elections. Politics in … Read more

Macedonia Parliament Stormed By Protesters In Skopje

Protesters stormed into Macedonia’s parliament on Thursday after an ethnic Albanian was elected as speaker. A brawl broke out injuring at least 10 people, including the Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev, who was left with blood pouring down his face. The protesters, supporters of ex-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO party, are demanding new elections. Politics … Read more

Macedonia’s Veteran Leader Gets Mandate To Form Next Government

Macedonia’s president said on Monday he will give a mandate to Nikola Gruevski, a veteran leader of the conservative VMRO-DPMNE, to form new government following elections last month. Gruevski, 46, who led the ex-Yugoslav republic for almost a decade, will now have 20 days to win approval for his cabinet in the parliament. Join GhanaStar.com … Read more

The Role Of Europe In The Balkan Region’s Geopolitical Crossing

Geopolitics, the study of how spatial dimension impacts on and affects states’ politics, may offer an important contribution to analysing strategies suited to developing rail infrastructures beween Italy and the Balkans. The Balkan idea sets and fixes the concepts and definitions between real and ideological, so as to generate a counterposition of geographical and geopolitical … Read more

Media Accreditation For Election Coverage

There is an ongoing debate about a statement from the Electoral Commission to the effect that Journalists/Media that will want to “Observe the Elections” and will be accredited to do so by the EC, will have to bear the cost of the accreditation tags that will be printed for them. I hear it may costs … Read more