The recent debates concerning territorial exchanges and border changes between Kosovo and Serbia have also sparked reactions in Macedonia, but all political forces are against these border changes. SDSM in power led by PM Zoran Zaev declared that its policies are driven by the principle of no border changes in the Balkans. “Our policies are …
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You will have the opportunity to make a historic choice on September 30. Do you want to open the path of your country’s membership in NATO and EU by supporting the agreement with Greece? We, The Ohrid Group, urge you to say Yes, reads a special op-ed of the group in light of the referendum …
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It’s astonishing, but reasonable people, after signing the agreement with Greece, are still playing on the ground of VMRO-DPMNE. They try to read and interpret the agreement with Greece to the self-proclaimed educators, national ideologists and hygienists an. It’s as if you read the Old Testament to atheists, expecting them to believe in God, or …
The vassals in power show their true faces more and more clearly with each new day. They got an assignment from their colonial master to send Macedonia to NATO at any cost, and they, at any price, and are ready to do so. They will not allow for the Zaev-Tsipras agreement to not pass. Because …
The campaign for the referendum on the name has officially started. This was declared by the State Election Commission. According to the law on the referendum, the campaign starts with the announcement of the decision for the referendum, but so far, none of the large political parties or civil society has started it. The government …
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the EU, is set to visit Macedonia on September 7, three weeks prior to scheduled name-change referendum. Kurz is to visit Macedonia at the invitation of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who has also invited several other European leaders ahead of holding the referendum scheduled …
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Thirty organizations signed today a memorandum of strategic cooperation aimed at boycotting the referendum. They formed the so-called Crisis Headquarters for the campaign, and are led by Janko Bacev of United Macedonia. The campaign that propagates the boycott of the referendum included Christian Brotherhood, Macedonium, Amanet 1903, Third Party of Macedonians, Tvrdokorni, VMRO-DPMNE-Democratic Faction and …
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The number of children under care of large-scale social institutions has been reduced for 33.9% for a one-year period, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy says, citing the results of the deinstitutionalization process from last to this August. In this period the Ministry provided non-institutional care for a total of 95 children, which means …
It would have been much easier if there was no referendum and if a generation of responsible and courageous politicians, led by Prime Ministers Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras, with the decisions of the parliaments of Macedonia and Greece ratified the agreement and took over the responsibility for resolving the decades-long dispute, and thus opened …
The administration and the two members remaining in the anti-corruption commission are on vacation. The door of the building where the commission is located is open, but there is no one inside, only the employee providing information and registering who entered the institution. She informed us that the employees are on vacation, but the Commission …
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Concerns for the future of Macedonia, for the future of this freedom paid with many human lives and for a state of only a small part of geographic and ethnic Macedonia, are hanging over the biggest Macedonian national holiday Ilinden, and over all of us. With the last moves of the Zaev-Dimitrov duo and the …
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The State Election Commission (SEC) held Wednesday its constitutive session and adopted the Rulebook on organization and implementation of the September 30 referendum. Taking into consideration that the referendum should take place in 60 days, all deadlines will be shorted by five days each, except for the public propaganda timeline. SEC, municipal electoral committees, and …
The State Election Commission (SEC) will hold its first session on Wednesday, following its election in Parliament on July 25. The new SEC members are Oliver Derkovski (president), Ditmire Shehu (vice-president), Elizabeta Postolovska, Janakie Vitanovski, Boris Kondarko, Radica Risteska and Enver Saliu (members). SEC is scheduled to administer the referendum on the name agreement, which …
Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borissov will jointly celebrate Thursday the 115th anniversary of Ilinden Uprising in Blagoevgrad, Government’s Press Service told Wednesday. Zaev and Borissov will attend wreath laying ceremony at the monument of Goce Delcev on ‘Macedonia’ Square in Blagoevgrad. This will be the second joint celebration following …
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Construction of the railway section from Kumanovo to Beljakovce has been delayed. The deadline for construction of the first phase of the eastern part of Corridor 8 will be prolonged to 18 months, although it is already late for the same amount of time. The section, which is 31 miles long, was due to begin …
Kosovo’s government has reversed its decision increasing agricultural import tariffs, Minister of Economy Kreshnik Bekteshi told a press conference Tuesday. “Kosovo’s Parliament took into consideration Macedonia’s arguments presented at our meeting last Friday,” Minister Bekteshi said, “and fully revoked the decision.” Bekteshi said the Ministry of Agriculture would estimate any losses the Kosovo tariff decision …
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A party that does not even control the money it misused for more than ten years, and now has to beg for state funding, is obstructing the citizens’ greatest right with a great deal of political arrogance – the right to have their say at a referendum on the name agreement with Greece. What is …
There are not enough doctors, especially specialists for the announced wave of new employments in healthcare, warn doctors from other towns in Macedonia who still have problems due to lack of staff. While Health Minister Venko Filipce announces new vacancies in September, they are wondering how to find good staff as doctors and nurses go …
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev calls on the citizens of Macedonia to vote in the name referendum that is staled for September 30 stressing that ‘now is the time for every citizen of the country to take responsibility for the future.’ “Every one of us is obliged to take responsibility for their own future and for …
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Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Koco Angjusev told Tuesday’s press conference in the Government that the increase in industrial production by 12.1 percent in June 2018 compared to May 2017 and growth of average monthly salary in May show that Government’s economic policies are good and yield results in the long run. Economy is measured …
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