LABYRINTH

Trump returns to the Oval Office – Will he stop the wars as he promised?

The Americans have spoken - a triple victory for the Republicans.

The Americans have declared, they are returning Trump to the White House. Labyrinth with appearances from Tampa, Florida and Cincinnati, Ohio analyzed how the new President came to this victory and how that election will affect global geopolitics. Jalyssa Dugrot, a journalist from Florida reports about the atmosphere there. We analyze Trump's future steps on the world political stage with Professor Ivan Dinev from the University of Cincinnati.

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Georgia in post-election chaos – USA at pre-election crossroads

Analysis of the Georgia election and a Florida survey on American expectations.

Less than a week until the most important American election in modern history. For Labyrinth, colleague Jalyssa Dugrot from Florida talked to young people about their views and expectations of the presidential candidates.

Georgia, on the other hand, is back on its feet after the elections in which the ruling "Georgian Dream" won. The people, the opposition and the international public do not recognize the results. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the only European leader who appeared in support of his Georgian colleagues. We talk to Ekaterine Basilaia - director of the Center for Media and Social Research of Georgia about the atmosphere in Tbilisi and the reactions after the elections.

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After Albania resolved its bilateral disputes, the fight against corruption is the last step towards the EU

The arrest of the ex-President Meta, the migrant camps and the EU path of Albania in the focus of this Labyrinth.

Albania started a fierce fight against corruption - this is how Albanian citizens see the arrest of the former President, Ilir Meta. With colleague Arber Hitaj from Report TV from Tirana, we discuss the arrest and trust in the Special Prosecutor's Office. Topics of conversation were the migrant camp, as well as European integration, that is, the unblocked road for Albania and the Balkan tour of the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, which started right from Tirana.

After Tirana, Von der Leyen visited Skopje. From the Government, she assured the citizens that expansion remains the focus of the European agenda. Neither the President Von der Leyen, nor Prime Minister Mickoski gave a concrete answer to the question of whether the proposal for delayed implementation of the possible constitutional amendments is acceptable to the EU.

Is the EU changing course on migration and enlargement policy?

Berlin Process – 10 years later

The leaders from the Western Balkans together with their European colleagues marked 10 years since the Berlin Process. In the past decade, not a single Balkan country has achieved its goal of becoming part of the European family. We talk with our colleague Aleksandar Metodijev about the future of the Union, the change in the course of migration and enlargement policy, as well as the role of Germany on the continent.

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People in Beirut sleep on streets and beaches because buildings are targeted

An interview with award-winning humanitarian from Beirut, Marina El Khawand

The war in the Middle East is heating up. After the attacks carried out by Iran on Israel, Israel began a heavy bombing of its Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon and continued heavy attacks on the Gaza Strip. In this Labyrinth, we talk to award-winning humanitarian and fighter for equal and free access to medical care, Marina El Khawand.

We discussed the current situation in Lebanon with refugees and people receiving evacuation orders in the middle of the night, the basic needs of water, food and medicine, as well as the role Hezbollah plays in Lebanese society.

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Лавиринт ја проследи конститутивната седница ЕУ-МК во Европскиот Парлмент 

Лавиринт ја проследи конститутивната седница ЕУ-МК во Европскиот Парлмент кој сега има ново парламентарно мнозинство.

За претседаравач беше избран Карло Реслер од хрватската ХДЗ која е член на мнозинската парламентарна група на Европската Народна Партија. Тој во изјава за Лавиринт вели дека е поддржувач на нашиот евроинтегративен пат и дека Парламентот ќе се обиде да одигра конструктивна улога во надминување на проблемите.

Dimitrova: Everyone supported Zaharieva's candidacy for EC

A conversation with the journalist Dimitrova about the situation in Bulgaria and the Macedonian issue.

Bulgaria is facing the seventh parliamentary elections and has been in a political crisis for three years due to the inability to elect a stable government. In the pre-election, Macedonia is even more part of the rhetoric of the political contenders and it seems as if that is the only point on which they agree.

The guest in this edition of Labyrinth is the journalist Tonya Dimitrova from the National Service, with whom we talked not only about the elections, but also about the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights that Bulgaria does not want to implement, the constitutional amendments that they require from us, as well as about the problems that Zaharieva has in her political career towards European institutions.

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We all met the person detained for attempted assassination in Kyiv two years ago

The man who was walking around Kyiv branded in the colors of his country, went against it

Everyone who was in Kiev in the summer of 2022 inevitably met the person detained for the attempted assassination of the United States presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Among them is the author of Labyrinth, Kristina Atovska.

In this edition, we include the humanitarian from Germany, Christian Lutz, and the journalist from Italy, Cristina Brondoni, who also met the man in the center of Kyiv. 

The Profiling as a tool in the fight against modern crime

Forensic profiling is the key to uncovering unknown perpetrators of crimes worldwide.

Can profiling as a globally accepted tool in criminalistics help in the faster detection of unknown perpetrators and the clearing of numerous crimes in our region? Do we need formalization of profiling within police institutions and legal changes in order to implement these investigative techniques?

For profiling as a set of psychological-criminological techniques and its application in the region and the world, see in the n ew edition of Labyrinth.

The guest in the new edition of Labyrinth is * Popović, profiler, psychologist and expert in criminalistics. 

The challenges before the European Union in the post-covid era

Analysis of the developments in Europe in the face of military conflicts, economic problems and social post-covid consolidation.

The Ervopeum forum, which was organized by the Institute for European Politics, gave an overview of the current situation with the mechanisms for the rule of law in the EU and the mechanism for the growth of the union, within which the progress of many aspirants on the way to the EU was considered when it comes to governance of law.

Such events have for the overall promotion of the reforms that even more candidates can undertake before the membership, making the forces candidates for implementing reforms with the aim of Europeanizing the social-institutional environment in these countries.

The road to the Union is paved with the successfully implemented reform, but is Macedonia on the road to the EU? 

Can Macedonia defeat corruption, which is the main problem of the state when it comes to Europeanization? 

How to free the judiciary from the chain of political and business entrapment - Laws are in powers, but how are they implemented?

Watch the new edition of Labyrinth and find out what's next in the battle for EU membership, where Macedonia is on the map and will the right path to integration emerge? Our guest in this issue is Beba Žagar from the Institute for European Politics.

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