The third and final phase of the implementation of the Prespa Agreement is expected to start on Wednesday, January 9th with a parliamentary session where the voting of the constitutional amendments will take place. In order for the amendments to be passed, two thirds of MPs should vote in favour of them. PM Zoran Zaev …
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EU chief of diplomacy Federica Mogherini has demanded from the negotiating team to step up its efforts in the three months to come in order to achieve a peace agreement between Kosovo and Serbia. However, according to her, dialogue can only begin once tariffs on Serb goods are lifted by Kosovo. After the meeting that …
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A new round of talks is expected to kick off today for the normalization of ties between Kosovo and Serbia. Kosovo’s state delegation has pledged that it will comply with the platform of talks voted in parliament, which foresees a peaceful agreement and a mutual recognition between the two countries. This was stressed by the …
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Leader of VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski has declared that this party’s candidate will win the presidential elections which are expected to be held at the end of May this year. “I think that VMRO-DPMNE will achieve a landslide victory in the next presidential elections”, Mickoski said. He stressed that his party is transparent in the process …
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A crucial meeting of the SYRIZA Political Secretariat was held Monday to discuss developments with regards to the imminent ratification of an agreement with Macedonia to change the neighboring country’s name. The Political Secretariat members examined the ramifications of the ratification for the stability of the ruling coalition between left-wing SYRIZA and right-wing Independent Greeks …
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Talks with representatives of the opposition party BESA over a two-thirds majority for the constitutional revision resume on Tuesday. This is the second meeting with the BESA representatives after last week’s discussions between Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and BESA leader Bilal Kasami. BESA and Alliance for Albanians have filed amendments to the constitutional amendments, while VMRO-DPMNE …
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Zdravko Saveski The government could not have made a bigger fool of itself than it did with the series of moves at the end of last year. Amnesty, ganging up with the construction mafia, more privileges for themselves, more strikes against poverty! All the things we have seen. With these procedures, the government lost the …
Macedonia’s President Gjorge Ivanov on Monday attended a Christmas liturgy held at the St. Clement of Ohrid Church in Skopje. After the liturgy, he said he wished all the Orthodox believers ‘health, joy, happiness and unity.’ “Holidays don’t serve only for celebration, they are here to remind us about everything that has allowed us to …
President Ivanov and PM Zaev extend Orthodox Christmas holiday greetings Read More »
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ relations with the leader of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), Panos Kammenos, took a turn for the worse over the controversial Macedonia name-change deal known as the Prespa Agreement. In fresh statements over the weekend, Kammenos vowed to oppose the government’s agreement with Skopje “to the end”, adding that his …
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Nikola Popovski The end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 was a good occasion to assess the achievements and failures of economy throughout the world, as well as Macedonian economy. As usual, depending on whether the assessors are government or opposition, pro-government or pro-opposition, the estimates for the domestic economy vary from the fact …
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Presidency member, Željko Komšić (Croat), stressed on Friday that the BiH borders cannot be questioned in any way, regardless of what is happening at the border between Albania and Kosovo. His comments came as a reaction to the statement of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, who has …
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I wish we had a consensual presidential candidate, who will serve as the father of the nation and we would all rally around this candidate, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev to reporters signing a contract for the construction of the photovoltaic power plant Oslomej in the Government of the Republic of Macedonia. “We haven’t opened yet a …
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Erol Rizaov If morning reveals what kind of day we are going to have, and the year is known from the first day of it, then we can expect more bright days. The first child born in 2019 one minute after midnight is called Vedran (Bright), and the first three days were sunny and enjoyable, …
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PM Zoran Zaev discussed sincere friendship between the two countries and peoples, the benefits of the Prespa Agreement, the processes in the Macedonian and Greek parliaments, NATO membership, coming presidential elections, as well as the Nobel Peace Prize nomination in an interview with Greek daily Efimerida ton Syntakton. Zaev says the Prespa Agreement cannot be revised …
The results of the poll conducted on the topic “If they could, would they leave Macedonia?” by the fakulteti.mk portal show that even 83.7 percent of the respondents would leave Macedonia if they had a chance. In the poll that was opened two weeks ago, a total of 1,474 readers anonymously answered the questionnaire, and …
Survey: Up to 83.7 percent would leave Macedonia Read More »
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has started to hold intensive meetings with leaders of political parties in order to secure the votes needed for the constitutional amendments which would enact the country’s new name “North Macedonia”. Today, Zaev will meet with the leader of BESA Movement, Bilall Kasami. This party has two seats in Parliament. Meanwhile, …
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Former Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki yesterday refused to comment on the speculation that he was eyeing the leader’s post in VMRO-DPMNE. He was reportedly was out of the country for the New Year’s holidays, but he still rarely appears in the public, even in the Assembly, where he is a Member of Parliament. Poposki’s supporters …
Poposki as Plenkovic, but Mickoski is no Karamarko Read More »
This year, the minimum wage will increase. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told the news, but did not release any details. Unofficially, a proposal by the Economic and Social Council is that the minimum wage is to be adjusted in accordance with the GDP growth, the increase in average wage and the increase in the consumer …
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NATO’s Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg has said that he’s sorry about the fact that parliament of Kosovo decided to adopt a number of laws which enable the transformation of the existing Kosovo Security Forces into an army, despite the concerns that NATO had expressed on this. Stoltenberg said that Kosovo is the one to decide …
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The tram transport project has been brought to life yet again in Skopje. Quite unexpectedly, the end of 2018 in the country’s capital was marked by the announcement that it will not remain just a desire for the citizens of Skopje. Lost in the past ten years, this kind of city transport has been so …
