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✓ “What’s happened in Macedonia is a political crisis, which has got nothing to do with the migrants whatsoever;”

✓ “The key difference with Macedonia and all the Balkan countries is that they have this promise, this European perspective and Ukraine doesn’t have that and none of the former Soviet countries have that;”

✓ The Serbian elections called early by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, were seen as a partial victory for the controversial PM, on a project of reform aimed bringing the country towards the European Union.

The Economist's Balkans correspondent, Tim Judah was in Kyiv recently promoting his new book, ‘In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine.’ Hromadske sat down with him to discuss the book as well as the recent Macedonian protests and the Serbian elections.

“What’s happened in Macedonia is a political crisis, which has got nothing to do with the migrants whatsoever,” he says on the recent protests in Skopje, which were sparked by the President’s annulment of investigations into alleged crimes that came out of wire-taps. In terms of European integration, “the key difference with Macedonia and all the Balkan countries is that they have this promise, this European perspective and Ukraine doesn’t have that and none of the former Soviet countries have that.”

The Serbian elections called early by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, were seen as a partial victory for the controversial PM, who campaigned on using the elections to allow the government to focus more intently and with less political opposition on a project of reform aiming at cutting state budgets and bringing the country towards the European Union.

Hromadske’s Josh Kovensky spoke to Tim Judah, the Economist's Balkans correspondent on April 26th, 2016 in Kyiv.

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