By joining NATO, North Macedonia becomes a country that joined the club of all countries to which it wants to belong. All this brings new challenges. We opened a door to a room of new responsibilities that should not be taken for granted but fulfilled, Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska said at the opening of a …
The Public Prosecutor’s Office rejected the criminal charges by the World Macedonian Congress against Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov. The request came from the World Macedonian Congress which asked the PPO to declare the signing of the Prespa Agreement as a clear case of treason. The Public Prosecutor’s Office informed that …
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Bujar Osmani, North Macedonia’s Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs will meet with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn on Wednesday. Deputy PM Osmani will also attend a briefing with representatives of the Council of …
Deputy PM Osmani to meet Hahn and Mogherini today Read More »
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has welcomed the February 20 ratification by the country’s National Assembly of the NATO accession protocol of the Republic of North Macedonia. The ratification was supported by all parties present in the National Assembly. The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party was absent because it is boycotting sittings of the legislature. Speaking …
Bulgarian parliament ratified today the NATO accession protocol for North Macedonia. Bulgarian MPs voted unanimously in favour of this decision. With this, Bulgaria becomes the fourth out of 29 NATO members to ratify this protocol. Greece, Albania, Slovenia and Bulgaria today, are the four countries which have taken this step. Yesterday, the Danish government announced …
Four countries have ratified NATO’s accession protocol so far Read More »
The mood in the government press center was positive yesterday during the signing of the first bilateral agreement between the Republic of North Macedonia and Greece after the Prespa Agreement. The Memorandum of Understanding is the first bilateral activity after the signing of the Prespa Agreement, and in the future, as both ministers announced, bilateral …
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The Bulgarian Parliament with 140 unanimous votes ratified North Macedonia’s Accession Protocol to NATO at plenary session on Wednesday. North Macedonia’s Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi, who pays official visit to Bulgaria, attended the session. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva addressed the session saying that the North Macedonia’s joining to NATO is historic moment for the …
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The defendants in the April 27 violence in the Parliament, who did not ask for amnesty, or weren’t granted amnesty, see their last hope for justice in the trial council headed by Judge Dobrila Kacarska. All of them argued that the prosecution had no evidence of a crime with which they were charged “terrorist endangerment …
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Gjorgji Spasov In Macedonia for many years, the “first truncheon” – as people here like to call the police minister, was in the hands of a Gordana. She was far from illiterate. She had graduated in England, spoke fluent English, published articles in the magazine Politicka Misla – Political Thought, and from the position of …
Skopje turned into what Budapest used to be – a center for intelligence activities against Serbia, said Serbia’s Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin. In a statement for the Serbian newspaper Novosti, Vulin says that financial support and information about the attack against Serbia is provided in Skopje. Vulin also commented on the meeting of Macedonian Prime …
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Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska denies that there are military intelligence officers in her cabinet, as well as in the General Staff, who cooperate with intelligence services from non-NATO countries, of which there was an alleged warning from Brussels. In a statement for Nezavisen Vesnik/Independent daily newspaper, the defense minister explained that after receiving the membership …
Sekerinska: I do not have Serbian spies in my cabinet Read More »
Citizens of North Macedonia are divided regarding the foreign policy of the four superpowers: USA, Russia, China and European Union. This is suggested by an opinion poll conducted from 22 November to 6 December by BRIMA agency, part of Gallup International. Respondents have replied that the US, Russia and China’s foreign policy is a threat for …
Zvonko Davidovic Attorney at law Mayor caught smuggling cigarettes at the border crossing. Another mayor caught in a photograph drunk in a tavern, with half-naked dancers dancing around him. 27-year-old fire trucks on average (a total of 220 in the entire country) are barely moving and starting when someone’s home is on fire. Struga has …
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini said on Monday that she will not call a new round of talks between Pristina and Belgrade until authorities in Kosovo do not suspend tariffs imposed on imports coming from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mogherini made these comments in a news …
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Prime Minister and Social-Democrat leader, Zoran Zaev is in search of a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in North Macedonia. The Social Democratic party SDSM has announced that it will elect its presidential nominee by 3 March. But, for the moment, talks are taking place with Albanian political parties to ensure their support. “This …
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VMRO-DPMNE MP Ilija Dimovski delayed the first hearing in the Thaler case, a case opened by the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office for his party’s unlawful financing. Dimovski informed the Court on 13 February that as a Member of Parliament and Head of the Parliamentary Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO, he will participate in …
The SPO is after Dimovski, while he is representing the country in Brussels Read More »
The information about the thwarted terrorist attack in the country has upset the citizens. The few details that were announced this weekend left many unanswered questions. The police action was realized shortly after getting a pass for NATO membership, which in itself could be a challenge for the terrorists of the phantom “Islamic State” to …
The group of experts always tried to be objective and neutral, its reports were not aimed against a certain political option for the benefit of another, they focused on problems not politicians and parties in the given moment, said Reinhard Priebe on Monday. Priebe, who headed the group of senior rule of law experts to …
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Prime Minister and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev will continue talks with coalition partners over a consensual presidential candidate at a meeting with DUI leader Ali Ahmeti on Monday. “Today we are resuming meetings with our coalition partners from the Albanian bloc. First we will meet DUI, then BESA of Afrim Gashi and DPA. I will make …
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Erol Rizaov Two months before the presidential election, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski declared the party’s winner with the words: “Professor Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is the new head of state. Macedonia got its first mother of the nation”. Thus, with 408 votes in favor in the VMRO-DPMNE convention, we have our first nation’s mother, a mother of …
