Mazedonien: Rückkehr zur Demokratie durch EU-Vermittlung?
Macedonia: Return to Democracy through EU Mediation?

Macedonian summer of crisis 2015: Illegal monitored telephone calls and its political results

Summary/Abstract: A shootout which erupted between police forces and an armed group linked to the National Liberation Army on the 9th and 10th of May 2015 in the Macedonian city of Kumanovo has yet again brought the small Balkan state into the center of international attention. But the clashes of Kumanovo were just the peak of domestic political tensions which already emerged months before. The polarisation between government and opposition had been growing for years and the stalemate in Macedonia has led to a more authoritarian, clientelistic, intransparent and nationalistic political system. The EU Commission (in the person of the Commissioner for EU negotiations, Johannes Hahn), representatives of the European Parliament, representatives of the US and the leaders of the four main parties in Macedonia finally y reached a deal on the 14th of July 2015 which will lead to elections in April 2016.

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