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    The European Union on the Verge of Bouncing Back in Macedonia
    (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung & IDSCS, 2018-03)
    Markovikj, Nenad & Necev, Zoran
    The case of Macedonia is a primer for EU’s credibility in the region. When the EU finally decided to engage, it helped the country recover after ‘approaching the edge of a cliff’3 and dismantle different (unlikely for the majority of citizens) scenarios for the future of the country that were floating in the air. This new momentum and energy is recognised and appreciated by the citizens, as reveals the IDSCS telephone survey conducted during December 2017, sampling 1100 respondents.4 The greater involvement of the EU in domestic political affairs (and post-crisis reforms) appears to have increased the Union’s credibility and visibility among Macedonian citizens. This also has resulted in a drop in the perception of Russian influence.
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    Reinvigorating Political Dialogue in Light of Macedonia’s EU Accession Negotiations - Policy Brief No.17/2018
    (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung & IDSCS, 2018-09)
    Markovikj, Nenad & Necev, Zoran
    The Parliament is and will be playing an important political and scrutinizing role in Macedonia’s EU accession process. All the parliamentary political parties declare themselves in favor of the EU accession process, thus providing political support to the Government in conducting EU-related reforms, at least. In 2017, as part of the 3-6-9 Reform Plan, the Parliament passed a ‘Declaration of speeding up reforms and integration processes for joining EU and NATO’ 1. As with other similar or identical declarations in the past, the Members of Parliament confirm their consensual and non-party dedication to the country’s strategic policy objectives. However, there are many recent and not so recent examples when the Parliament failed to provide this necessary impetus to the accession process. On the contrary, the legislative body was frequently used to undermine and even block the process of adoption of EU-related legislation for political and all sorts of other reasons.