On Wednesday, 5 November 2025, MEP Irena Joveva hosted a presentation of a study on tackling youth Euroscepticism using the case of North Macedonia. “For as long as I can remember, we have been hearing that the future of the Western Balkans lies in the European Union,” she stressed, adding that this phrase has been […]
On Tuesday, 23 October 2025, MEP Irena Joveva participated via video address at the 10th anniversary summit of the ‘Alliance of Her’ programme, the leading programme of European liberals for women’s empowerment, which brought together more than 150 participants and supporters in Brussels. In her introduction, Joveva stressed the importance of initiatives that promote the […]
On Thursday, 9 October 2025, Member of the European Parliament Irena Joveva took part in the plenary debate marking World Mental Health Day, stressing that mental health must be placed at the heart of European policymaking. “Mental health is not a luxury. It is a fundamental human right. It is dignity,” Joveva declared. At the […]
According to my conscience. As always. This time, the motions of no confidence in the European Commission came from both the far-left and the far-right ends of the political spectrum. Each side put forward its own. If the real intention had been to remove Ursula von der Leyen, the approach would have needed to be […]
On Tuesday, 7 October 2025, Member of the European Parliament Irena Joveva took part in the plenary debate on the European Union’s role in supporting the latest peace efforts for Gaza and the two-state solution. “Now or never. Not tomorrow. Not next week,” Joveva said, underscoring the urgency of establishing peace. At the outset, Joveva […]
On 2 September 2025, MEP Irena Joveva participated in the panel Europe Chooses – creating unity or facing fragmentation at the Bled Strategic Forum, where she and other interlocutors discussed the future of the European Union in an increasingly divided world. In her introduction, Joveva stressed that the work in this mandate is particularly challenging […]
Dignity. What is it? Even more importantly: Where is it? The basis of everything, the basis of man, but the first in line to be trampled on today. It is trampled on by people, who are not people. Those “people” who trample on people, who are people… but are dehumanized. What a paradox. The world […]
“The hypocrisy of the leftists cannot be hidden. The European Parliament member and leader of the Svoboda list, Irena Joveva, recently voted in Brussels against the extension of the measure to fight child sexual abuse online, while at the same time publicly advocating for children’s rights in Gaza. She herself “warns” about the rise of […]
On Monday, August 26, 2025, at the Henry Jackson Society panel, European MP Irena Joveva took part in a discussion about the political crisis in Serbia following the tragic collapse of the canopy at the railway station in Novi Sad. In recent weeks, as Joveva pointed out, it has become more and more obvious that […]
I am deeply disturbed by the consequences of Saturday’s events in Austria, where heavily armed Austrian special units – without having a court order and without any prior warning – stormed a symbolic site of remembrance. Uniformed forces, helicopters, drones, long-barrelled weapons and police dogs were deployed against the descendants of victims of Nazi violence, […]