Vice Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Koco Angjusev believes it is possible for Macedonia to reach the projected economic growth of 3.2 percent. In an interview for Radio Free Europe, Angjusev said he was expecting the first-quarter GDP of 0.1 percent to be followed by better numbers in the second quarter. “I expect those numbers …
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Around seventy MPs are likely to take part in the public campaign leading up to the referendum on Sept. 30. The campaign, Parliament said, would be run through paid advertising, TV debates, as well as editorials in the press and in online media. So far, only MPs from SDSM and their coalition partners have confirmed …
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs has denied allegations that the police were monitoring people boycotting the referendum after boycott organizers recently made these claims in their response to an interview given by Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski for MIA. Denying the allegations issued by the Macedonia Boycotting headquarters, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has dismissed them …
MoI: We’re monitoring the general situation, not ‘Macedonia Boycotting’ Read More »
Macedonia has been receiving the continuous support and encouragement for the September 30 referendum from strategic partners such as the U.S.A and the EU, but also from neighbor countries. The citizens’ vote is one of the crucial steps towards the implementation of the name agreement with Greece as well as towards NATO membership and the …
VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said on Saturday he would suggest to his group of MPs to have their referendum campaign funds donated to the Kiril Pejcinovikj High School in Tetovo. If there was a legal obstacle to this donation, Mickoski said on his Facebook profile, VMRO-DPMNE would give up its share of the funds, publicly …
Mickoski: Referendum campaign funds to be rerouted to a Tetovo school Read More »
I think the Prespa Agreement is a good and fair deal, university professor Marilena Koppa writes in a column for the Greek daily Efimerida ton sidakton. “The agreement closes the 26-year dispute and neither side is defeated or humiliated. Both sides win in the area they deem important: Greece the name, which effectively separates the …
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A small number of migrant workers who live abroad have registered their name in order to vote in the September 30th referendum regarding the issue of the country’s name. Yesterday, the country’s State Election Commission received 2437 demands from migrant workers who live abroad. This shows that their number is very small and that the diaspora …
Only 2500 voters of the diaspora will participate in the referendum Read More »
The Greek opposition party New Democracy will not vote ‘for’ the Prespa Agreement, says Dora Bakoyannis, former Greek Foreign Minister and now MP of the opposition party, in an interview with a local radio. The New Democracy leader and members have on several occasions voiced their objection to Skopje-Athens name deal, saying they will not …
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Gjorgji Spasov The fear of neighbors, Albanians in Macedonia, the great forces, the dark scenarios for the national defacing of Macedonians and the destruction of the possibilities for the existence of their own state, has been implanted in the consciousness of the Macedonian people for years. Faced with numerous injustices, defeats and sacrifices in the …
Will we deal with the “dealers of fear” before the referendum Read More »
The trial in the Parliament storming case continues Friday for a third day in a Skopje court with opening statements of defense lawyers representing defendants accused for participating in the violent incidents on 27 April 2017. 33 people, including lawmakers, former office holders, public figures, policemen, are tried in one of the most complex cases …
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The trial for the Monster case of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office for the five-time murder of Smilkovsko Lake from 12 April 2012 continues on August 31 with the hearing the protected witness by the court. At today’s hearing, the protected witness was answering questions from the defense attorneys after the hearing of the SPO …
Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov held a meeting with German MPs Josip Juratovic and Martin Rossmann and representatives of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in which he extended gratitude for the exceptionally important support of Germany to Macedonia’s progress on its EU and NATO path in the past several months. Dimitrov also praised the vital role played by Germany’s …
Dimitrov meets with German MPs Juratovic and Rossmann Read More »
Reputable people who recited and sang in front of the Parliament, MPs who waved their hands without making any signs to open the door of the Parliament and let the crowd in, a policeman who saved the life of MP Zijadin Sela and a minister who safely evacuated the people who were inside the Parliament, …
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Vice-Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani, Special Advisor for Euro-Atlantic Integrations in the PM’s Office Bojan Maricic and Dutch Ambassador to Macedonia Wouter Plomp discussed Thursday on the government activities for preparing Macedonia to start the EU accession talks. Macedonia is determined to resume the reform processes, especially in the spheres of judiciary, security …
Osmani: Government remains fully committed to implementing the undertaken obligations Read More »
Petar Arsovski We are stuck in our own dilemmas, focused on the challenges `in the next few months, but in the meantime, dramatic things happen in the rest of the world. One of the most politically important developments in the last few years, especially since Donald Trump assumed the presidency in the United States, happened …
Ahead of the referendum, the situation in the country is stable, the institutions are functioning even though there are forces that see a chance, by disrupting security, to meet their own goals of sorts in order to hinder our accession into NATO and the European Union, said Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski . However, he adds, …
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The protected witness, who was interrogated in the Basic Court Skopje 1 via camera from another room with a modified voice for the five-time murder at Smilkovo Lake in 2012 in the case of “Monster” of the SPO, recognized three men out of four present defendants. The witness said that he saw Fejzi Aziri, Agim …
Protected witness recognizes three defendants in courtroom Read More »
Patriots welcomed the accused of terrorist threat to the constitutional order and security in front of the Criminal Court building with patriotic songs, zurlas and drums, and the Vergina flag. Before the trial started, a group of citizens with slogans in their hands gathered in front of the new court building and with ovations they …
The accused of terrorism receive celebrity welcome by patriots Read More »
The dismissed organization secretary of VMRO-DPMNE, Stevo Naskovski, said in an interview with Deutsche Welle that external centers and parallel party structures are pressuring for a boycott, and are sacrificing the strategic commitments of VMRO-DPMNE. – VMRO-DPMNE is a party that supports a referendum aimed at resolving the name dispute, which was repeatedly announced by …
Naskovski: Foreign centers are pushing for a boycott Read More »
At its regular session on Wednesday, the government appointed Saso Tasevski for the Public Security Bureau (PSB) Director. Now ex-PSB Director Laze Velkovski was released from duty over a scandal with a official state car. The incoming one, Tasevski, is a holder of master degree in security and future PhD of the Skopje-based Faculty of …
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