Macedonia
Balkan basketball: Macedonia honour and no 'hate thy neighbour' syndrome
In 1991 SFR Yugoslavia won the 'Eurobasket' gold medal and ended its existence as the second most successful country in basketball championships (after the soviet union). Twenty years on, all of Yugoslavia's ex-republic national teams have met for the first time at the same event. The riveting European basketball championships have reunited a region and end in Vilnius on 18 September
macedonia, sport, vilnius, politics, society, yugoslavia, balkans
A is for Macedonia
Like any others, Skopje's activists, artisans and artists build on the future, in correlation with the government's grand urban plans for 2014. Yet unlike any others, they have a more testing time building from the past, twenty years after independence from Yugoslavia. Across stone bridges, the Albanian heart of the city muddles on from changing traditions, whilst a Macedonian soul reigns in the streets, with the rising citizenship of people angered by an unnecessary state-related death of a young man. However, national identity is a creative booster for documentary makers opening to the world. One answer in getting from A to Z in this small Balkan country lies in the question: how many Macedonias are there? Read the final edition of Orient Express Reporter by cafebabel.com's editorial jaunt to the Balkans in 2011, as an Albanian, Montenegrin, Polish, German and French journalist-photographer team deconstruct the Macedonian capital (Image: © Sab Ji/ cendrillons.over-blog.com/)
Greece 2010 mayoral poll: first social(ist) media elections
New Athens and Thessaloniki mayors George Kaminis and Yiannis Boutaris managed the impossible on 14 November. This socialist victory sends five main messages - including the fact that 'people dont give a monkeys about the politicians'. Extract from the cafebabel.com blog in Athens
macedonia, social entrepeneur, wine, youth, vote, social networks, politics
Esma Redzepova: 'Roma are cosmopolitan'
A mother of 47, a career spanning 20 albums and 40 years and songs in Serbian, Macedonian and Romany. At the Sin Fronteras festival in France, the Macedonian 'gypsy music queen' brings a bit of Roma culture to a country which is planning to export large numbers of its gypsy population 'back' to Romania and Bulgaria by the end of the month
Theatre: Balkans’ not dead, from Paris to Skopje via Pristina
The Theatre de Syldavie company presents a sparse play in which the muslims and christians of Macedonia attempt to understand one another: - 'Blood Wedding’, or the re-writing of a great Balkan classic
Riots, reactions in Montenegro and Macedonia after recognising Kosovo
Whilst over 400, 000 Albanians celebrated openly in Macedonia, Montenegros’ 15, 000 were silent after the former Yugoslav states recognised their neighbour. Unilateral independence was declared eight months ago
macedonia, protest, podgorica, albanian, international court of justice, milan rocen, serbian people’s party
Babelblogs: little princes and book fair bombs
Some European member states don't get much attention, but are often worth a detour. Our multilingual community blogs take you there
macedonia, europe, sarajevo, european union, society, athens, blogs
Macedonia in images: names, Tito and David Morales
After a Greek veto on its joining NATO during the annual summit in Bucharest on 2 - 4 April, the country could still be on track to start EU membership talks by the end of 2008 if it meets the relevant criteria. View from the lens
macedonia, photogallery, religion, identity, josip broz tito, david morales, nato
NATO summit in Bucharest: Albania and Croatia to join
On 2 April NATO invited the two candidates to join the defence alliance, but leave Macedonia waiting
macedonia, bucharest, western eu, central and eastern europe, nato, greece, world affairs
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