Choice in the North of Macedonia: Zaevs Albanian Problem

The voters in Northern Macedonia have spoken, but it might take some time until it becomes clear what you meant. The results of the parliamentary election on Wednesday, so much was clear even before the announcement of the provisional official final result, are almost failed. The Position as the strongest party in the country had been fighting, as always, two blocks: The last ruling social Democrats to the former Prime Minister, Zoran Zaev, as well as the conservative, partially nationalist party VMRO of the leader of the opposition, Hristijan Mickoski.

Michael Martens

a correspondent for Southeast European countries with headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

Zaev had advertised, among others, in order that his government solved the "name dispute" with Greece and the country has led to the renaming of Macedonia, in the North of Macedonia in Nato. In addition, could be achieved against the many, the last of which, in particular, French Resistors, an opening of EU accession negotiations. North of Macedonia, since March of this year, a member of Nato and, after years of delays, now with the European Union, a membership is allowed to negotiate, is certainly an achievement. However, on the difficult everyday life is not the beginning of the end of the West integration of life of many people.