Referendum on the name could be held in late September or early October, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced tonight. According to him, this term is appropriate in order to complete all processes by the end of the year. – The EU is holding elections in May 2019. In such circumstances I would not leave it …
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They do not know why they entered the Parliament on April 27 last year, nobody put pressure on them, but after eight months spent in prison and in house arrest, they realized that they have made a mistake and regret what they did. The defendants Cejo Gjorgievski and Stojan Pavleski, who were originally charged with …
Sela case: They repent and do not know why they entered the Assembly Read More »
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev spoke for an hour over the phone with Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras on Monday afternoon, MIA learns from the Government. The telephone conversation took place between 2-3 p.m. Zaev and Tsipras discussed the remaining issues and several ideas for a solution. They agreed over an additional conversation on Tuesday morning. The …
Zaev and Tsipras speak over phone, to talk again on Tuesday Read More »
Just hours before Zoran Zaev’s phone call to Alexis Tsipras, the Greek Prime Minister invited the country’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias to Maximos shortly before 11:00 a.m. local, where he briefed him on the latest developments in the name issue. The discussion of Alexis Tsipras and Nikos Kotzias revolved around the latest facts that emerged from …
Macedonian MPs unanimously adopted Monday the Code of Ethics in the parliament by 84 votes in favor. The goal of the document is to strengthen the ethics of lawmakers and to increase the confidence in the parliament as representative body of citizens and holder of legislative power. Ruling majority and opposition lawmakers agreed the final …
After the mass gathering, popularly known as the rally of VMRO-DPMNE, they wrote and told a lot of analyzes, but I want to give my opinion from another angle. The rally is at the same time the finale of a process and the beginning of a new one. Finale of the process of restructuring of …
Responding to pressures, blackmail and political terror with mass and courage! Read More »
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Monday that he hoped the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece could be solved ‘very soon’, most likely before the Summit of the EU on June 28-29. A prompt resolution to the name issue is correlated with our desire to see the row solved before the EU Summit and prior …
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The telephone conversation waiting to happen between prime ministers Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras has been at the focus of the media in Macedonia. Asked by IBNA about the telephone conversation, the government said that consultations continue and that every new development will be made transparent. PM Zoran Zaev and Foreign Minister Nikola Dimotrov have …
Debates in Skopje ahead of the telephone conversation between the two prime ministers Read More »
The Greek Foreign Affairs minister Nikos Kotzias had to rush to the prime minister’s office at 11:00 a.m, at Maximos Mansion after his phone contact with Alexis Tsipras. The unexpected invite to the Greek FM -this being said it must be mentioned there was no planned meeting for today among the two top governmental officials- …
Nikos Kotzias in an urgent meeting with PM Tsipras Read More »
We are ready to do everything we can and according to the holy canons of the Holy Church to help our Orthodox brothers in today’s Macedonia, wrote the Synod of the BOC in the letter on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the Ohrid Archbishopric. In the epistle published on the Holy Synod of …
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Two defendants, whose indictment had been changed by prosecutors after new evidence came to light – from an attempted murder of MP Zijadin Sela during the storming of Parliament in 2017 into violent disorder – pleaded guilty on Monday in a Skopje court. “I plead guilty and I understand the new indictment I am charged …
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Photos from Strumica published Sunday on social networks by PM Zoran Zaev and FM Nikola Dimitrov were interpreted as message from Skopje to Athens, Greek media report. “Symbolic photo and message by Zaev and Dimitrov to Athens: On the same line;” “Zaev-Dimitrov: On the same line and on a joint holiday;” “Zaev tweed about his …
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The activities related to realizing infrastructure projects will intensify, Transport, Communication Minister Goran Sugarevski told reporters on Sunday, after inspecting the progress in construction of the Kicevo-Ohrid highway section. ‘There was a delay as we inherited serious problems, due to the poor realization of the construction works of ‘Sinohydro’, ‘Transmet’ and other companies. All of …
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Greek Minister without Portfolio Alekos Flambouraris in an interview with Sunday’s edition of ‘Ethnos’ daily calls on the Independent Greeks, junior partner of the government coalition, to not hamper the great opportunity for settling Athens-Skopje name dispute and clearly take into consideration the interest of the country. ‘I personally call on the Independent Greeks to …
On the sidelines of the World Bank-IMF Constituency in Croatia, Macedonia’s Finance Minister Dragan Tevdovski had a meeting with his Dutch counterpart Wopke Hoekstra, also attended by World Bank CEO Frank Hemskirk. Tevdovski extended gratitude for the Dutch support of Macedonia’s public finance sector and briefed his colleague about the ongoing implementation of reforms in …
President Trump upended two days of global economic diplomacy late Saturday, refusing to sign a joint statement with America’s allies, threatening to escalate his trade war on the country’s neighbors and deriding Canada’s prime minister as “very dishonest and weak.” In a remarkable pair of acrimony-laced tweets from aboard Air Force One as he flew away from the …
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday strongly criticized Austria’s move to close mosques and expel Turkish-funded imams, slamming the decision as anti-Islamic and promising a response, AFP reports. “These measures taken by the Austrian prime minister are, I fear, leading the world toward a war between the cross and the crescent,” Erdogan said in …
Brussels – Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani, after meeting EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström in Brussels, said it was difficult for the EU to pledge to exempt the country from possible measures on steel imports into the EU. The EU launched an investigation into steel imports in its internal market in March …
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Representatives of civil initiatives met with Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Koco Angjusev, along with MEP Director Bajram Rexhepi, the Mayor of the City of Skopje, Petre Silegov and the head of his cabinet, Nikola Naumoski. The “I Love Vodno” initiative informed that someone mislead the Deputy Prime Minister that it is a forest …
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Higher education in the country is on the high fourth place in the ranking of areas of the society in which there is discrimination. Some students feel discriminated on a number of grounds, as victims of political, gender and ethnic discrimination. At the very least, the respondents identified discrimination based on favoritism and nepotism, and …
