Wolrd leaders mourn the loss of Kofi Annan: He was a leader, but also a friend

Former United Nations secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died Saturday after a short illness at the age of 80, his foundation announced. “It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, …

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Sekerinska: Defence Ministry to allocate €1 million for the referendum

Ministry of Defence is to allocate approximately MKD 60 million for the campaign of the upcoming referendum on Macedonia-Greece name deal, Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska said Saturday at the ARM open day for the citizens on the occasion of ARM Day – August 18. “Ministry of Defence is among those institutions that should be most …

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The perils of Balkan Partition

Janusz Bugajski   After several provocative statements by Serbian and Kosovar politicians and in the midst of relative silence from Washington and Brussels, suppositions are growing that a territorial exchange is being planned between Belgrade and Prishtina. Kosova’s President Hashim Thaci has asserted that the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will include talks on “border corrections” – a …

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We are not really that safe

The messages that Evelyn Farkas, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the administration of Barack Obama, and a current member of the Atlantic Council, sent in yesterday’s interview with Nezavisen/Independent newspaper are terrifying. She says NATO membership will mean stability and security from any external threat, modernization and growth of democracy, but the possible …

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The list full of phantoms, political parties remain silent

Return of the phantoms. With this film title, the non-governmental CIVIL recently depicted, unfortunately, the real situation with the Voters’ List, after several citizens reacted that people duly registered with the SEC and the Ministry of the Interior and removed from the list during the parliamentary election in 2016 have returned to the same addresses. …

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Plomp: The Netherlands backs Macedonia on its path to EU and NATO integration

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev held Thursday a meeting with the Dutch Ambassador to Macedonia, Wouter Plomp, in which support was expressed for the policies bringing Macedonia closer to Euro-Atlantic accession. “I expect the majority of citizens to vote for the Euro-Atlantic future of the Republic of Macedonia in the upcoming referendum,” said PM Zaev, according …

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Jankuloska, Protugjer and Gruevski show up at court for Titanic trial

The Special Prosecutor’s Office is resuming the Titanic case trial in the Criminal Court in Skopje on Thursday. The TNT and the Target-Fortress trials are set to continue in late August. The previous Titanic hearing was scheduled for July 3, but defendant Gordana Jankulovska’s lawyer Sanja Aleksic said that the former Interior Minister was unable …

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Mickoski will no longer lead the central committee of VMRO-DPMNE

After criticism made by some of the public and municipal organizations, VMRO-DPMNE will change the party’s Statute, which has been recently sent to the country’s local committees for a review. Warnings that there will be even greater centralization in VMRO-DPMNE, filling organs and bodies with people close to the president and the senior leadership, and …

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Generation 2000

Aleksandar Nikoloski I remember the excitement quite well when we were waiting for the year 2000. New millennium. Many expectations and hopes. Looking to the future, but also up to the sky, towards the universe, expecting that in the millennium man will begin to conquer the space as well, with his mind, knowledge, innovation, and …

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Zoran Zaev meets with representatives of the Macedonian diaspora

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev met Wednesday with representatives of the Macedonian diaspora in Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and the United States. In the meeting, support was extended for the government policies bringing Macedonia closer to NATO and EU membership, the government’s press service said. The interlocutors discussed several current issues, including the importance …

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Macedonia to improve cultural cooperation with Bulgaria

Bulgarian government approves draft cultural cooperation programme between the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria and the Ministry of Culture of Macedonia for the period 2018-2021, Bulgarian government press service reports Wednesday. The cultural cooperation between two countries is regulated with the agreement signed between two countries in Skopje on May 15, 2000 as well as …

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Read Kolbe and Voskopoulos

Erol Rizaov All these years, for almost three decades, is how long  the blockade of the future of Macedonia have lasted and the impediment to its development in a modern democratic state, and the question that troubled me the most was whether there will be a leader, a statesman, a respected figure, a leader, the …

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Over 740 Macedonians living abroad applied to vote in the referendum

Thus far a total of 742 citizens have filed applications for voting abroad at the 30 September name referendum, the State Election Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday. Out of the total number of applications, 702 have been accepted, 11 rejected, while the rest are being processed, SEC said. SEC also urges citizens to check their …

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FITD: Four companies have public office holders in ownership structure

Four out of 77 companies to be funded after a call of the Economic Growth Plan have declared that their ownership structure consists of a public office holder or a family member, the Fund for Innovations and Technology Development said. Investments projects of the four companies that have won funding of the first call of the …

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Merkel is against the idea for border changes in Western Balkans

Germany is against territorial exchanges between Kosovo and Serbia or border changes in Western Balkans. German chancellor, Angela Merkel said on Monday that there cannot be any border changes in Western Balkan countries. She made these comments following a meeting with the Prime Minister of Bosnia, Denis Zvizdic with which she discussed relations in the …

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