The government has made changes to the project charter involving the construction of a gas pipeline through Vodno mountain, it was announced Wednesday. The changes involve less trees to be cut than initially planned and the width of the gas pipeline route is cut down from 25m to 10m. The length of the pipeline passing …
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Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on his Facebook page has revealed the motto under which the government’s campaign to support the referendum and the name dispute with Greece will be led. Under the motto “In the EU ‘FOR’” citizens are required to complete the response that will bring Macedonia into the EU and NATO on September …
The trial of the thirty men accused of being involved in the events in Parliament on 27 April 2017 has started Wednesday in Skopje-based Criminal Court. Among the defendants are MPs, artists, members of the Ministry of Interior, the security services and parliamentary security, who are indicted for terrorist endangerment of the constitutional order and …
Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov had an official meeting Tuesday in Washington with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who voiced strong support for Macedonia to become the 30th NATO member. ‘This is a very significant moment for the Macedonian diplomacy. My meeting today with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was rather encouraging’ Dimitrov told …
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Former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov, four MPs, opera singer Igor Durlovski, social media influencer Bogdan Ilievski, director Boris Damovski, actor Vlado Jovanovski, Aleksandar Vasilevski – Ninja, will be seated on the defendant’s bench today. The accused, along with twenty other people, will be tried for the violent parliament storming that took place on April 27 …
Nikola Popovski The collapse of the bipolar world in the late 1980s and early 1990s opened up new opportunities for many countries to try to find their place in the world that is being rearranged. Some, like the United States, tried to make it unipolar and this seemed possible in the mid-1990s, but soon the …
Minister of Finance Dragan Tevdovski called Tuesday the average pay increase of 6.1% in June 2018 compared to June 2017 ‘a serious growth.’ “We are satisfied with the fact that there is serious growth of 6.1% in average monthly salary this June compared to the same month last year. The increase was recorded in several …
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Will the thousands of families, who are in an unfavorable social position because of the accumulated utility debts, be saved? Citizens’ associations and trade union organizations have been alarming for months that the inability to settle debts for various reasons has become a field in the most common and cruelest ways of violating basic human …
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Government ministers and directors will defend themselves with lawsuits against VMRO-DPMNE and its spokespersons, from accusations coming from this party for arranged tenders, problems with medication or news articles with fake content. VMRO-DPMNE says that these threats are in vain. The Ministry of Health is particularly targeted by the opposition party. The latest lawsuit announced …
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Macedonian language will be the official in the European Union’s 500 million citizens, PM Zoran Zaev writes on his Facebook profile ahead of information campaign on upcoming referendum on deal with Greece and NATO and EU membership bids. Zaev said that by joining the EU, all official communications between the Republic of Macedonia and the …
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The government in Macedonia has received the necessary guidelines needed to deliver the NATO accession conditions within a period of 18 months, as it was decided in the NATO summit held on 11 and 12 July. Macedonia will have to deliver a number of political, economic, security and judicial conditions by April 2020. As part of the reforms, …
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Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov is set to meet Tuesday afternoon with the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In Washington, he is also scheduled to meet senior officials of the US administration, National Security Council, US Department of State, US Congress as well as with the representatives of NGOs and other institutions, Ministry of …
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Vast majority of Greek MPs will support the Prespa (Skopje-Athens name) Agreement when the document enters the parliament voting procedure, Speaker Nikos Voutsis says for Radio ‘Real FM’. I believe the Macedonian issue and the Prespa Agreement will be supported by more MPs than assumed at the moment as several events, starting with a conference …
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Erol Rizaov Hristijan Mickoski, the president of VMRO-DPMNE, has been very busy and worked hard on exchanging views on the referendum. As a people’s party, they have drawn the strength from the people, so in the remaining days of his meditation, wrapped in hard work, he will crystallize his attitude to the party depending on …
These days, the mass media renewed the news about the publication of the so-called Shanghai list of the best universities in the world. From the journalistic circles, the news spread across the academic community to the wider public. Parallel to the presentation of information, messages are also posted that should influence the political awareness of …
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More than 900 ‘bombs’ remain to be heard as the Special Prosecutor Office’s Titanic trial resumes in Skopje’s Criminal Court today. The wiretapped recordings are related to the abuse of power by several former officials in 2012. Twenty-one individuals are indicted in the case, including former PM Nikola Gruevski. Judge Osman Sabani is presiding the …
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Macedonia’s parliament resumes its duties Monday after a three-week summer break. Information whether and how the MPs and parliamentary groups will participate in the public campaign for the referendum is expected to be known this week, and also whether the parliament, as authorized proposer, will monitor the work of election bodies that will conduct the …
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Has the new leader of the main opposition party, Hristijan Mickoski, decided to continue the hard “eliminate, then rule” tactics, despite his loud indications that the new party statute will contribute to greater democratization? In the moments of indecision over the positions of the party related to the referendum, which will be held in less …
2018 Operational Employment Plan and pilot programme Youth Guarantee are being successfully implemented. This shows that we have created effective mechanisms to reduce unemployment in Macedonia and most likely in the next period will yield positive results for unemployed young people, Minister of Labour and Social Policy Mila Carovska told Sunday’s press briefing. MKD 987 …
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At the next government session on Wednesday, the government will determine how much funds will be allocated for the campaign for the upcoming referendum on the agreement between Macedonia and Greece. So far, only the Ministry of Defense has published information on how much funds will be allocated for the upcoming referendum. Other ministries do …
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