ESI KAFFEEHAUS - Reviving multi-cultural values B

Photo: Eurozoom “Tolerance is the basis, the fundamental pillar, if you want to make Macedonia a part of Europe,” says Borjan Jovanovski, a Macedonian journalist who has dedicated much of his career to explaining the EU to the Macedonian public. [...] The family was able to avoid the www.esiweb.org/kaffeehaus 2 ESI Kaffeehaus grey socialist housing complexes and afford a house with a green backyard in the outskirts of the city near Vodno, Skopje’s landmark mountain. [...] At the time he was still a teenager and the drummer of the Macedonian pop band “Chaos in Laos” (Haos in Laos). [...] Why shouldn’t we be able to sing in Macedonian? That was the first time in my life I realized some of the problems of the Yugoslav federation.” After finishing secondary school in 1984, Borjan was required to serve in the Yugoslav People’s Army. [...] A year later, the first private TV station, “A1”, started to operate in Macedonia and invited the young news journalists from the state broadcaster to work at the new channel.