Macedonia

Seven Pelagonia Mayors in The Hague: Dutch Models Are Only Worth Something If Someone Back Home Sits Down to Apply Them

Circular economy, waste, keeping young people - the delegation saw what it looks like when local government actually works. The...

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Kuklica Finally Freed: The Court Booted the Squatters Who Spent Years Charging Entry to a State Wonder

Two people spent years charging entry to a protected natural monument, with threats and unleashed dogs. The institutions just shrugged...

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Earthquake Woke Ohrid and Struga at 05:36: A Weak Tremor, but Also a Quiet Question About Readiness

A magnitude 3 with its epicenter in the lake, no damage. But for a region that remembers devastating quakes, every...

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Fifty Million Euros Sunk by One Missing E-Signature: Why Skopje Is Melting in Buses With No AC

250 eco-buses promised, six delivered. Two tenders dead, a third underway - and the only thing regulating the AC on...

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The Sunken Fountain Returns, the Millenium Cinema and the Library Get a Makeover - and the BRT Is „Coming Soon" Again

Working fountains and taps after eight years are real, verifiable things. But a city's reckoning is measured in doors that...

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After Years of Waiting, the Domes Over Skenderbeg Get a Purpose: a Library in the Heart of Čair

An expensive structure with no content finally gets a plan - a reading room instead of an empty symbol. Now...

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Arsim Zekoli Has Died: a Diplomat, an Analyst, and a Voice That Owed Nothing to Anyone

Ambassador in Vienna, journalist, translator, humanitarian - and one of the rare commentators who told unpopular truths in two languages,...

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Bitola Underwater Again: One Downpour, Fifteen Critical Points Across the City

The Niskogradnja crews do their job in the rain. But when the drains don't take the water, that's not bad...

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Triplets at 58: a Rare IVF Case in Bitola - and a Hard Decision Still to Come

Five years into menopause, a third attempt, three viable embryos. Medicine did its part - now the doctors recommend reduction,...

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A Foreign Ambassador Shocked by Struga's Landfill: 30 Metres of Garbage Next to Lake Ohrid

It took a foreigner to show up and say I'm shocked before anyone spoke up about something locals have endured...

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An Albanian Library to Rise Above Skenderbeg Square in Čair: Good Intentions, but for Now Just a Plan

Any city that builds libraries instead of closing them is heading the right way. But in a country where announcements...

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3,500 Denars for Every First-Grader in Aerodrom: A Gesture You Feel - and a Question of Why Only in Some Places

A one-off payment that's a welcome breather before the most expensive school month. But when one municipality can do it,...

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