The VLEN coalition has confirmed its new names in the government. Jeton Shasivari becomes justice minister, Sedat Suleimani takes over the Culture Ministry, and Agon Ferati heads the Ministry for Community Relations. Bekim Sali remains first deputy prime minister, and the other officials carry on in the restructured lineup.

The reshuffle was announced by Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski after talks with the coalition partners. The official rationale is familiar and predictable - speeding up reforms and more efficient institutions. Mickoski said the proposals were "perfectly fine by me," but left it to the partners to announce their own picks. A small but telling detail: when you want to show the coalition is working, you let the others do the talking.

From the opposition, SDSM immediately dismissed the whole thing as "ordinary theater" - a move that creates the appearance of change without any real meaning behind it. An assessment that, of course, comes from a party that pulled the same rotations itself when it was in power.

And here's the question that goes beyond which party sits where. Swapping ministers is the easiest way to signal "movement" without anything essential budging. Justice, culture, community relations - three portfolios that take years of work, not new faces in the same offices. Whether the new ministers deliver change a citizen can feel, or just another batch of inauguration photos, won't be judged by the press releases but by what they leave behind them.