Slovenia will hold an early general election on June 3, President Borut Pahor announced on Saturday, a month after center-left Prime Minister Miro Cerar resigned over a legal obstacle to a government investment project. “On this day I dismiss the parliament and determine June 3 as the date of early parliamentary election,” Reuters quotes Pahor …
In case of settling the dispute over Macedonia’s name, Berlin will allow Athens to postpone an implementation of austerity measure – cutting of pensions – for six months, according to Greek newspaper Ta Nea. Citing credible European sources, the paper says that the measure, which should be set into force on 1 January 2019, would …
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Talks on increasing the parliamentary majority are resuming this weekend, while the entire process to that effect should be wrapped up by late April, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told an open media briefing on Saturday. Ali Ahmeti, leader of the government’s coalition partner DUI, also supports the process for increasing the parliamentary majority, Zaev said. …
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told a group of Russian politicians that Western missile strikes on his country were an act of aggression, according to Russian news agencies. The politicians met with Mr Assad after the United States, France and Britain launched missile strikes on Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack a week ago. Russia, …
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Voters in Montenegro are casting their ballots in a presidential election that the former prime minister Milo Đukanović is expected to win after his party defied Russia and took the small Balkan country last year. The vote is the first since Montenegro joined the western military alliance in December. It is seen as a test …
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Hours after striking Syria, the United States, France and Britain on Saturday launched a new bid at the United Nations to investigate chemical weapons attacks in Syria. The three allies circulated a joint draft resolution at the Security Council that also calls for unimpeded deliveries of humanitarian aid, enforcing a ceasefire and demands that Syria …
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, will visit Kosovo tomorrow. According to the Bulgarian news agency BTA, the purpose of the visit is to consider ways to improve cooperation in the region and to maintain peace and stability in the Balkans. Borissov will meet with Kosovo …
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has welcomed the combined strikes on Syria’s alleged chemical facilities, saying that the operation sent a message to his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad. The US and its allies, Britain and France, carried out a wave of strikes against Assad’s government on Saturday, a week after a suspected deadly gas attack on the rebel-held Damascus suburb …
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The US and its allies, France and Britain, have drawn a new red line on chemical weapons, but the Pentagon admits that capacity in that area still remains. The strikes also did not target the Bashar al-Assad regime’s use of, or access to conventional weapons. At a Pentagon briefing, director of the Joint Chiefs Lieutenant …
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Macedonia wishes to develop friendly relations with Russia as the two countries have much in common, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said in an interview with TV 24 Vesti (News) late Friday. However, there is no other alternative for Macedonia but the EU, NATO membership. Macedonia is not joining NATO to start wars. On the contrary the …
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U.S., British and French forces launched air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people, aiming to degrade its chemical weapons capabilities in the biggest intervention yet in the conflict by Western powers, Reuters reports. U.S. President Donald Trump announced the military action from the White House, …
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It seems that Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, although indirectly, accepts Skopje claims about alleged Greece’s irredentist aspirations towards the neighboring country, opposition New Democracy shadow foreign minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos said. Koumoutsakos criticizes the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the statement of Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov at yesterday’s joint press conference with Kotzias, who …
Minister of Labour and Social Policy Mila Carovska said Friday that retirement age limit will not rise and the pensions are stable and safe. Carovska at Friday’s press conference in the government informed about work done in the past 11 months. A total of 4.535 redundant workers received compensations, 90.000 citizens got higher salaries, funds for 138 new employments …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Friday addressed reporters before their meeting in Berlin, B92 reports. Merkel, who spoke first, stressed the importance of the talks conducted in Brussels between Serbia and Kosovo, adding that close cooperation and discussion was important in the process of EU integration. According to her, Serbia has undertaken …
The government has decided to elevate the diaspora issue to an institutional level and the state should pay more attention to building confidence with the diaspora, Edmond Ademi, minister without portfolio responsible for the diaspora, said on Friday. “We want the diaspora to identify with the state rather than with the political parties, which was the …
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Greek Foreign minister, Nikos Kotzias, has held a meeting in Pristina today with his counterpart from Kosovo, Behgjet Pacolli. In contrast to the other visits held as part of the Balkan tour, the Greek diplomat did not deliver a joint press conference following the meeting with Pacolli. “We have a lot to talk and to …
Deputy PM in charge of EU integration Bujar Osmani held Thursday in Brussels a meeting with High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, in which he presented Macedonia’s progress after implementing the 3-6-9 Plan and lifting the remaining political hurdles on its path to EU membership. “I bring good news …
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Progress has been made involving some of the issues that have already matured and there are still differences for others, Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov stated Thursday after his meeting in Ohrid with Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias. Dimitrov said that the talks were ‘open and sincere’ and that for the first time a time …
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Trial in Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) case dubbed “Titanic” will resume on April 26 after a defense lawyer asked for the trial judges to be exempted. Judge Osman Shabani said the lawyer’s motion would be forwarded to the Appellate Court. Lawyer Elenko Milanov urged for the exemption of judges Osman Shabani and Ognen Stavrev from …
Macedonia and Turkey can do a lot more in the field of investments and trade exchange. Back in 2012 we agreed that political relations are excellent but economic cooperation lags behind. Therefore we set the goal of increasing annual trade exchange to one billion dollars, said President Gjorge Ivanov in his address before Turkish businessmen …
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