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Jan 28, 2024 · North Macedonia parliament approves caretaker cabinet with first-ever ethnic Albanian premier. 1 of 10 |. People walk through downtown Skopje, North Macedonia, on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. North Macedonia’s parliament has approved on Sunday a new caretaker government installed ahead of general elections this May. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski) Read More.
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Jan 29, 2024 · Around a quarter of North Macedonia's 1.8 million inhabitants are ethnic Albanians. After the country declared independence from what was then Yugoslavia in 1991, the Albanian minority complained...
May 7, 2024 · North Macedonia holds presidential and parliamentary elections Wednesday. Giant portraits of Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of the center-right main opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, are displayed on a building in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Monday, May 6, 2024. Voters go to the polls on Wednesday in North Macedonia to cast ballots for parliamentary ...
- History of Tensions
- The Ohrid Agreement
- The Last (Almost) Census
- The Importance of Numbers
- Diaspora Registration
- Consolidation of Rights
Traditionally, ethnic Albanians in the Balkan region have mainly lived between three neighbouring states – Albania, North Macedonia, and Kosovo (an autonomous, majority-Albanian former province of Serbia). After World War II, in 1946, the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was created, modelled after the Soviet Union, with six republics includ...
After the uprising by Albanian rebels in 2001, North Macedonia was on the brink of civil war. So the international community intervened to help put an end to the conflict and restore peace through the so-called “Ohrid Agreement”. This was brokered by representatives of the European Union and the United States and signed by political parties represe...
In 2011, when a new census was due, the process fell apart, bringing not only uncertainties about the updated presence of communities in the country but also difficulties for state institutions that need reliable data to help tailor services such as social and educational development programmes for their respective regions. Lorik Idrizi was a 19-ye...
Simovski believes that the most problematic datasets are related to the number of residents in North Macedonia, as emigration, especially among the young, has risen in the last 20 years. “We are producing data that [says] we are a little more than two million people in the country but I’m afraid that the census will show that we are much, much less...
Another reason why some oppose this year’s census is that the registration process will also include the North Macedonian diaspora. At the end of the process, those who are residents in the country and those living abroad will collectively comprise the number of the country’s population. And the quotas, rights and representation each community rece...
In the census of 2001, Albanians made up 20.04 percent of Greater Skopje, meaning they were just over the threshold that helped them gain rights like the official use of their language there. But numbers are important not only for gaining rights, but maintaining them. Bilalli believes that Albanians will be able to secure the status that their prev...
Dec 13, 2023 · Background. North Macedonia gained its independence peacefully from Yugoslavia in 1991 under the name of "Macedonia." Greek objection to the new country’s name, insisting it implied territorial pretensions to the northern Greek province of Macedonia, and democratic backsliding for several years stalled the country’s movement toward Euro-Atlantic integration.
4 days ago · Greece's prime minister reiterated on Thursday his intention to thwart North Macedonia's bid to join the EU after its newly elected president referred to her country as Macedonia, reigniting a ...
