Roth: The EU can’t risk credibility over Balkan enlargement


The European Union “must not lose credibility” as it weighs opening membership talks with Albania and North Macedonia, said German EU Affairs Minister Michael Roth. In his opinion, the two countries “have done their homework” assigned by Brussels, adding that North Macedonia deserves commendation for settling a name dispute last year with neighbouring Greece. Speaking …

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Justice Minister claims: No one protects Jovo Vangelovski


The last subjects on the agenda of today’s session of the Judicial Council are the discussion of the reports of the committees for determining the responsibility of judges and making decisions on the submitted requests for determining responsibility. However, up to the beginning of today’s session, there was no information whether the President of the …

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Pendarovski: The US will ratify the NATO protocol in August


Yesterday was a day for high-level visitors at Krivolak base as part of the Decisive Strike exercise, where North Macedonia’s Army infantry battalion presented offensive alongside members of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Decisive Strike is the largest military exercise to have been held in the country, including over 2,700 members of the Army of North …

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Penalties for statistics


Goran Adamovski If the interior minister was not attending a a public event on Thursday, we probably would never have known that one victims in the traffic accident near Drachevo was quite familiar to the police. Although he was less than 21 years old, the boy from Batinci had been stopped by the police up …

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Justice Ministry to send extradition request for Gruevski to Budapest over the April 27 case


The extradition request for the fugitive former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski as being organiser of violent storming of the Parliament on 27 April, 2017 will soon be sent to Budapest, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska told reporters on Monday. “The complete case file of the court and the prosecution was forwarded to the Justice Ministry late …

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First anniversary of the Prespa Agreement – Mogherini and Hahn demand opening of accession talks


EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, Federica Mogherini congratulated North Macedonia today on the first anniversary of the Prespa Agreement. Mogherini called on EU member countries to open accession talks for North Macedonia and Albania. “Today marks the first anniversary of the Prespa Agreement between North Macedonia and Greece and I think we …

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Deskoska: We drafted an excellent law, I expect the support of all parties in Parliament


The international community approves of the proposed Law on the Public Prosecution and all political parties should support it as it’s in the best interest of our country, according to Minister of Justice Renata Deskoska. Justice Minister Deskoska said the new legislation drafted by the Ministry of Justice was optimal and had received high marks …

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Xhaferi – Yunhu: China and North Macedonia are traditional friendly countries


North Macedonia’s Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi during his official visit to People’s Republic of China met Monday with Dong Yunhu, Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Committee in Shanghai. Parliament delegation also includes Vice Speaker Goran Misovski, coordinators of the parliamentary groups of SDSM Jovan Mitreski, of DUI Ejup Alimi, of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola …

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Mogherini: I hope for a positive decision for negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania


High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini congratulated North Macedonia on the anniversary of the Prespa Agreement and urged EU member countries to greenlight the start of talks with North Macedonia and Albania. “Today’s the first anniversary of signing the Prespa Agreement between North Macedonia and Greece,” Mogherini said. “We …

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Hahn calls on EU member states to start negotiations with North Macedonia


EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Johannes Hahn urged EU member countries to start negotiations with North Macedonia as soon as possible. “I can only reiterate that talks should open as soon as possible because they did everything, and this is not a signal only to North Macedonia, but to the entire region,” …

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Zaev announces replacement of 8 ministers and 20 heads of public institutions


North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev after  SDSM Central Board meeting in Ohrid yesterday said that he will reassemble the government and will replace eight ministers and 20 heads of public institutions instead of announcing snap parliamentary elections. The government reshuffle will be completed by end of June whereat there will be no early elections …

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New Bulgarian Sovereignty


Nikola Popovski The signing of the state treaty between Macedonia and Bulgaria was a risky move for both parties. On one hand, the treaty can contribute to improving the relations between the two countries, which only the completely naive or uninformed consider them to be or have been good, and on the other hand, it …

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