Amnesty International urged FYROM’s government to stop its attempts to extinguish freedom of expression. This event took place after three of the country’s newspapers, namely the newspapers Spic, Vreme, and Koha e re, were shut down. The aforementioned newspapers were all owned by the detained media tycoon Velija Ramkovski and were closed down at the weekend, ostensibly due to unpaid taxes demanded by the […]

Islam will overwhelm Christendom unless Christians recognize the demographic realities, begin reproducing again, and share the gospel with Muslims.

With or without a fiscal debt or deficit, with or without provoking the criticism of the German or British partners on the good life of ‘plastic money’ attributed to its residents, Greece has not stopped being a powerful attraction for foreign visitors — chiefly among the strong critics of the Greek…life of luxury — but also economic and political figures, […]

One out of Three is Unemployed in FYROM according to the Statistical Office of the country. The unemployment rate in FYROM, which in 2009 amounted to 32.2%, had been reduced by 3.4%, in relation to the corresponding statistics of 2008. Despite this decrease, FYROM has got one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe, mainly due to the closure or […]

The Morning Chronicle - Sept. 3 1842 Both sources - “Turkey and its Resources” By Urquhart, p. 272 and “Turquie d’ Europe”, ii32 by Boue - mentions Nothing close to a fictitious identity like “ethnic Macedonians” in the population statistics of the Ottoman Empire. The population the Ottoman Empire in Europe comprised of : Wallachians, Serbians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Jews, Albanians, Bosniacs, Herzegovinians, Croats, […]

PXS kindly recommended a very insightful Economics blog (http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net) which mainly discuss the current predicament and solutions that the EU countries are facing, in particular Greece, Ireland, Spain and to some extent Italy. Among the very insighful articles you will find there and worth a good read, there is an article entitled “A Greek Tragedy” where the author explains analytically the Greek situation. A very […]

Photo @ Wikipedia.org By Joseph Stiglitz Unless it is one rule for the big and powerful and another for the small, the EU must stand behind Athens’ new leadership Greece has been condemned by European officialdom for its huge deficits. “No government or state can expect from us any special treatment,” comes the warning from Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the […]

The FYROM press has already started its disinformation (see below)*: They have published that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decisions are binding. The truth is that they are not. The reason behind the FYROM press statements is disinformation to the people in the FYROM, but also all over the world that Greece does not abide by the ICJ rules. […]

Australian Macedonian Advisory Council January 05, 2010 Recently, Mr. Nijazi Muhamedi (President of the editorial board of the new ‘fictional’ Albanian Encyclopedia) stated: “The ancient warrior king Alexander the Great, was neither Greek, nor Macedonian, but Albanian” (http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/24745/). His book ‘Albanian Macedonia’, was launched in Tetovo, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) this week. Mr. Muhamedi said that […]

Source: Eurostat Population of foreign citizens in the EU27 in 2008 Foreign citizens made up 6% of the EU27 population On 1 January 2008, 30.8 million foreign citizens1 lived in the EU27 Member States, of which 11.3 million were citizens of another EU27 Member state. The remaining 19.5 million were citizens of countries outside the EU27, of which 6.0 million […]