Mystery still surrounds alleged Bulgarian link to Skripal case

Mystery continues to surround allegations of a link between the March 2018 poisoning attack on former Russian intelligence officer Sergey Skripal and the April 2015 poisoning of Bulgarian weapons industry businessman Emil Gebrev. The link, according to claims by the website Bellingcat, takes the form of Sergey Fedotov, an officer of Russian military intelligence GRU, …

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Report: Parliament adopted 246 laws in 2018, significant increase compared to 2017

North Macedonia’s Parliament adopted 246 laws in 2018, which is a significant increase compared to 2017, the year when the institution was inactive in the first five months due to the prolonged constitutive session. However, this number marks an improvement compared to the 339 laws adopted in 2016, since hyperinflation of laws does not always …

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Children as political tools

Naum Kotevski How could one not laugh at the announcements made by the State Election Commission chairman Oliver Derkovski that he and the representatives of the parties will sign a Code of Conduct and that they will therefore call for a fair and correct political competition. It’s not like it is the first time so …

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Xhaferi: If we could wait a year for the language law, we will wait for Ivanov to leave

The Parliament is likely to re-send the laws by the end of this week to President Gjorge Ivanov, which he returned to Parliament when he decided not to sign them due to the use of the country’s new name. If Ivanov leaves the laws in the drawer even after they are re-voted at the assembly …

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Kosovo: Haradinaj fires senior Serb official over comments about NATO

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has sacked Deputy Minister of Justice Vesna Mikic, who belongs to the Serbian community. Premier Haradinaj said that the decision comes as a result of the hate speech and unacceptable statements made by the official in question. PM Haradinaj’s decision followed deputy minister Mikic’s comments two days ago with regards …

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Dimitrov: The Prespa Agreement has removed the obstacles in our relations with Greece

The Prespa Agreement has removed the obstacles in our relations with Greece, building at the same time a bridge to our EU integration. The agreement has achieved something that Schuman, one of the EU founders, would describe as “concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity”, said Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov in Graz on …

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Tsipras for President

Erol Rizaov The title of this column is not a joke, irony or sarcasm of an old journalistic cynic, it is just a provocation to make you think a little bit harder, but also a personal protest against the domestic blockades of the future of North Macedonia, which have recently shifted to European territory. The …

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Bekteshi: NATO ensures stability, new record of investments is expected in 2019

NATO accession ensures North Macedonia’s stability and security, contributing to the record rise in investments, said Minister of Economy Kreshnik Bekteshi. Economy Minister Bekteshi told local TV station Gura that most of the investors come from the EU, United States and Turkey, while a new record is expected in 2019 – about EUR 1 billion …

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Second meeting on history of the Joint Interdisciplinary Committee

The new generations in both countries and the region should be educated in the spirit of the European values ​​of solidarity, trust and mutual cooperation, the delegations of North Macedonia and Greece said at the second meeting of the Joint Interdisciplinary Committee of Experts on Historical, Archaeological and Educational Issues, established in accordance with the …

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Karadzic puts the government in a difficult spot and divides the opposition

The decision of the Hague tribunal to impose a life sentence on the former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic has sparked a variety of reactions in Serbia. Some have welcomed the decision, some have criticized it and some others have been silent, either because they do not want to be reminded of their “sinful” …

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Forward Together – Ruling coalition begins presidential campaign

Stevo Pendarovski, the ruling coalition’s presidential candidate will begin his presidential campaign under the slogan Forward Together. This slogan was decided on a working meeting held by the central campaign headquarters of SDSM and its coalition. The meeting was attended by all ministers, city mayors, and high officials who are party members. They chose the …

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Judicial Rebellion

Ilo Trajkovski Sociologist by occupation, I see myself as a scientist. And therefore, in my performances for the wider public, I try to stick to the principles of science. This means, above all, the scientific method. According to Isaac Newton, science is a specific way of examining phenomena, a way of finding out about phenomena …

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Matka’s illegal constructions will not be legalized – we will have to wait for demolition

The Anti-Corruption Commission woke up the mayor of Saraj, Blerim Bexheti, from hibernation on the first day of spring. After the members of the Anti-Corruption Commission announced that they would investigate whether there were traces of corruption in the case of the illegal construction at Matka, after a long silence Bexheti, first at a briefing …

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Zaev meets with delegation of the German Federal Foreign Office

North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev met Thursday with a delegation of the German Federal Foreign Office including Christian Hellbach, Special Envoy for South-Eastern Europe, Turkey and the EFTA Countries, Thomas Ossowski, Director for EU Policies at the German Federal Foreign Office and German Ambassador to Skopje Thomas Gerberich. “With the Prespa Agreement, we showed that …

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