About the Authors

Irina Simonovska Spirkovska graduated Law Faculty in Skopje, Macedonia, in 2004. She received her MsC degree in legal history in 2008 with the dissertation Legal Competences of the Church and School Communities in Macedonia in the XIX Century. She worked as a teaching assistant on the Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus” during the period 2004-2008. I. Spirkovska was performing the function Secretary General of the NGO “European Movement-Macedonia” in 2008. She is currently working on her PhD thesis at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Macedonia by the title: Influence of Culturally Plural Tendencies on Socio — Political Definition of Ethnic Identities in Macedonia. She is employee of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Macedonia — Europe Division.