The Prosecution for Organized Crime and Corruption conducted searches and collected evidenceas part of the investigation that was opened against the showman and owner of 1 TV, Bojan Jovanovski, known to the public as Boki 13. The police searched the home of Boki 13’s parents, the apartment where he stayed, his office at the television …
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Following reports that a friendly country intervened by providing evidence over yesterday’s detention of two persons for the extortion of a Macedonian businessman, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov said Tuesday he did not know the name of the country involved. “All I know is that any unraveling helps us as society and how EU members see …
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Goran Adamovski Transfer Anita Angelovska-Bezhoska, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, to the Government and appoint her as Finance Minister, and appoint Fatmir Besimi as NB Governor instead. This, according to the media in Albanian, is the latest condition that Ali Ahmeti’s Democrats have imposed on Prime Minister Zoran Zaev …
The Skopje Court ordered 30-day detention for Bojan Jovanovski, aslo known as Boki 13, and Zoran Milevski, suspected of accepting a reward for unlawful influence and money laundering. Elaborating the case and evidence collected to open the investigation, Prosecutor Vilma Ruskovska at a news conference earlier in the day failed to reveal the suspects’ identities, …
Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 and businessman Zoran Mileski (Zoki Kicheec) were arrested today on allegations of racketeering. According to the allegations, Jovanovski helped a high profile suspect in a criminal investigation to receive lenient treatment, and received 1.5 million EUR in exchange. Chief Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski and Organized Crime Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska held …
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Nikola Popovski Our country, which represents only 0.4 percent of the EU population and only 0.065 percent (0.65 percent) of the scope of its economy, has a population standard measured by the GDP per capita indicator at a level of 16 percent of the average of the EU (4,800 versus 30,000 euros per capita in …
The head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Katica Janeva announced her resignation on Monday, saying it would be activated once political parties reach agreement over the Law on the Public Prosecutor’s Office and elect her successor. “When all political parties in Parliament elected me Special Prosecutor, I promised to myself and the citizens of North …
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev called for a leaders’ meeting in the MPs Club on Friday. He directed the invitation to VMRO-DPMNE’s leader Hristijan Mickoski, DUI’s Ali Ahmeti and Alliance for Albanians’ Zijadin Sela. According to Prime Minister Zaev, the meeting would focus on a new Electoral Code and a new electoral model, the …
Through the new French Strategy for the Western Balkans countries unveiled by French President Emmanuel Macron in June in Berlin, our engagement would be specified so that you can as quickly and effectively as possible meet the European standards to which the nations of this region aspire. In this respect, the Prespa Agreement opened new …
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It is quite certain that 2020 will be a year of elections, but these days the uncertainty again increases whether the elections for the “jubilee” tenth parliamentary composition will be the first regular elections in more than a decade, or they will be early and held several months earlier. Unlike before, when holding early elections …
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Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic says Prime Minister Zoran Zaev apologized to him in a text message after the emergence of the conversations with the Russian pranksters, in which he said that Vucic was a “man of Russia”. “He sent me an apology through a text message. What can I say, am I a man of …
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I hope and I believe that most of the illegal buildings in Ohrid will be demolished by February, Minister without portfolio Edmond Ademi told Radio Free Europe. Asked how many illegal buildings would be demolished within the deadline given by UNESCO, Ademi noted that was not the task of the Government, but the Municipality, and …
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Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev says he expects strategic partnership and good neighbourly relations with Greece to continue even after the arrival of a new government in this country. Zaev stated this last evening in a televised interview. He said that the new Greek PM, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is careful with the Prespes Agreement. …
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There’s no agreement yet for a leaders’ meeting with VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski to discuss three issues – the Special Public Prosecution, census and the Electoral Code, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. The Prime Minister said he expected a leaders’ meeting to be scheduled soon. “If the opposition and other stakeholders have other issues that …
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Petar Arsovski After New Democracy’s victory in the parliamentary elections in Greece, the main news in Macedonia has been the new Greek government, and the suspicion that political changes in our southern neighbor can mean a sharp turn to the right in relation to the Prespa Agreement, which would consequently mean jeopardizing our Euro-Atlantic, or …
A day later, the footage from Halkidiki, where the storm on Wednesday night took seven lives, look apocalyptic, and these recordings are maybe the best proof of the dreadful events that devastated the region. Snapped trees, ruined cars, torn down rooftops, broken glass everywhere, all kinds of objects scattered along the coast and in the …
North Macedonia’s PM Zoran Zaev said on Thursday that he had met with Russian Ambassador to Skopje Sergey Bazdnikin at the Government, and the two agreed that the case with the Russian pranksters wouldn’t affect bilateral relations and cooperation. “Friendship with Russia certainly continues. It’s our duty to strengthen and enhance it. We’re working on …
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Nano Ruzhin In diplomacy, there is a sacred rule that reads: “Diplomacy is the art of telling people the worst things, but in the most elegant way possible”. But how can one interpret the defeat of Alexis Tsipras in the most elegant manner, without misusing diplomacy? In the region, many diplomats, analysts and citizens are …
German Ambassador to Serbia Thomas Schieb hopes that the date for the start of North Macedonia’s EU accession negotiations will be known very soon. “Because of intensive harmonization, in Germany among others, the decision for the start of the negotiations has been delayed until October. Germany welcomes the great statesmanship achievement of North Macedonia and …
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Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci delivered a news conference today where he commented the prank call made by two Russian comedians to North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. Thaci’s name and plans for the partition of Kosovo are mentioned in this conversation. President Thaci said that PM Zaev has called him and explained to him that …
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