President Gjorge Ivanov asked Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Friday for documents related to name negations to be submitted to the head of state. ‘In the absence of key documents, and in order to provide a broader consensus on the name issue, President Ivanov encourages PM Zaev to submit the proposal for conducting the (name) negotiations on …
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President Gjorge Ivanov is still in office under unclear circumstances, probably only because the competent institutions and prosecutors, court instances and the Assembly do not initiate proceedings to apply the constitutional provisions. This man that has been at the helm of the state for nine years, after quite questionable elections, after all the crimes that …
Health Minister Venko Filipce said Friday discussions would be held with representatives of the Council of Europe Development Bank by the end of June over the construction of a new city hospital in Skopje. “We are planning a new hospital at the site of the current orthopedic clinic Majcin Dom (Mother’s Home) in Aerodrom municipality,” Minister Filipce told …
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The population census in the Republic of Macedonia in 2020 will be conducted from 1 to 21 April. About 5,000 people will be engaged on field, and this time will be used a combined method that implies besides using field data, and data from registries. It is estimated that this operation will cost up to …
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“The costs agreed by the Bitola mayor Vladimir Taleski with the carriers are ten times higher than the real prices. He has made corrupt tenders and now he wants us to cover it.” This was said by former Minister of Finance Zoran Stavreski to former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska in a telephone conversation, which was …
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Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said yesterday that there is still no final agreement on the name Republic of Northern Macedonia, but that Greece and Macedonia have defined the terms and principles, and are very close to closing this issue. Zaev announced that he would talk to his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras today, or Friday the …
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Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and DUI leader Ali Ahmeti assessed their first year as very successful. Zaev, referring to the reforms, said that they were started, but it would take extra time to complete them successfully. The Prime Minister assessed that more than 90 thousand citizens in Macedonia now receive a higher minimum salary, as …
The name issue, perception of state institutions, their trustworthiness, ratings of political parties and other political and social actors, corruption, importance of inter-ethnic relations, euroatlantic integrations and so on. The public mood about these and other issues are the best indicators of the public will, that should be the guideline of action for any government …
The Skopje-Tetovo-Gostivar gas pipeline and the branch to Kosovo, it seems, will definitely be ‘settled’ in the forest park Vodno. Although, for the time being, the Government does not reveal the final decision of the working group comprised of MEP representatives, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the City of Skopje and the civil society …
Citing pregnancy complications, defendant Gordana Jankuloska did not show up at Thursday’s hearing for the Special Prosecutor Office’s Titanic case. The hearing has been postponed for July 3. Jankuloska’s lawyer Sanja Aleksic said that the former Interior Minister was unable to attend the hearing because of her current condition and delivered a medical certificate. Public …
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Macedonia’s Prime Minister and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev is the most trusted politician in the country, according to a Telma TV poll in which 24 percent of respondents voted for him. According to the poll results presented Wednesday evening in the latest Top tema TV program, 9.9 percent of respondents place their confidence in President …
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A solution to Macedonia’s name under ‘erga omnes’ condition is not acceptable for President Gjorge Ivanov, his office said in a press release on Wednesday, ahead of a meeting with the head of diplomacy, on which he is supposed to be briefed on the negotiations with Greece. With this message, President Ivanov basically announces that …
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Athens and Skopje are close to resolving the name issue, the Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said today at a press conference in Skopje, on the occasion of of his government’s one-year in office. “We have never been closer to finding a solution to the name issue than we are today, while friendship between the peoples …
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The great expectations from the new government brought the same disappointment among the citizens that gave it a penalty card one year after the enthronement. Targeting priorities for resolving the name dispute and touching sensitive issues of identity and language on account of failure to deliver the promises of economic prosperity, is the key segment …
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There is still no agreement over the name, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said on Wednesday. “There is no agreement yet. As stated by foreign ministers Dimitrov and Kotzias, the principles of the agreement have been defined and now comes the legal-formal aspect of the agreement. I believe a conversation between myself and PM Tsipras will …
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We are moving towards NATO and EU, we are solving disputes, we are strengthening our identity. The Government is continuing the talks with Greece, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev at Wednesday’s press conference observing one year since its formation. “We have never been closer to a solution and the friendship between the two countries and …
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The leader of the Democratic Union for Integration, Ali Ahmeti held meetings today in Pristina with different senior officials of the Kosovan state. Stability and the solution of different contests in the region were some of the topics that were discussed in the meeting that Ahmeti had with the president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci and …
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The negotiations, which aim to resolve the decades-old name row are “difficult” but “necessary,” Greek PM Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday, during a speech at the annual meeting of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, Greek daily Kathimerini writes. Tsipras said the government has handled the talks “with a sense of responsibility and patriotism,” but also with the belief …
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All options regarding the name issue are still in play, MIA learns from the Government. According to the sources, none of the name proposals is favored and discussions are ongoing. The date of the crucial meeting between prime ministers Zaev and Tsipras will be specified in the coming days. According to the same source, the …
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The first meeting of the joint multidisciplinary commission of Macedonia and Bulgaria is expected to be held in the third decade of June on the open historical and educational issues between the two countries, after the governments in Skopje and Sofia signed the Treaty of Good Neighborhood. Our and the historians from Bulgaria will thus …
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