Rigged political processes, reform laws, hate speech, scandal with wiretapped materials, divisions and distrust, managing political crises, conflicts between fan groups, LGBT rights, changes in the Criminal Code… These are just some of the social spheres where the newly formed parliamentary group on reconciliation, reform and integration wants to influence. Established with the aim of …
“Our intention is to remember but to never allow for politics of division and conflict to resurrect,” PM Zaev said Monday. Tolerance is vital for establishing democratic relations between diverse social groups and a starting point for putting an end to injustice, hatred, fights in schools, streets or stadiums, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said. Zaev …
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Aleksandar Krzalovski With this article I conclude the “trilogy” about the polls, especially those of MCIC, whose aim, besides commenting on the results itself, was to demystify some issues around them and explain what should be kept in mind when commenting on them. Starting from technical issues, such as the sample of respondents, the statistical …
A bill on the prevention of corruption and conflict of interests was passed Monday in its first reading. 58 MPs voted in favor with 16 voting against. The law regulates the two areas, corruption and conflict of interest, and it includes precise definitions of office-holder, family, close family members and friends as well as a …
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Erol Rizaov Media reports that Prime Minister Zoran Zaev may run for president of the country in the spring election, no matter that these reports are the result of assumptions and analyzes of winning combinations, they still deserve attention because they too point to the thought of repeating the historical mistake made by Branko Crvenkovski …
Political parties in Macedonia have started to engage in strong debates concerning the developments taken place in the country during 2018. The leader of the biggest opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski declared that this year has been the worst ever for the country. “Progress has not been made and Macedonia can be compared to countries …
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Twelve defendants in the April 27 case have filed amnesty requests, said the Skopje-based Criminal Court. The five-day deadline for the amnesty requests expires on Tuesday. The applicants can file the requests in person and by post. The court and the public prosecutor’s office then have another five days to decide who is eligible for …
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Spiros Sideris The meeting of the Supreme Co-operation Council, between Greece and Serbia, held in Belgrade, has shown that the Prespes agreement can also serve as a model for resolving the issue of Kosovo. Serbia’s apparent lack of interest in the agreement and the downgrading of its value with comments of the type: “it’s not …
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“2019 will be the year when Macedonia is to open EU accession negotiations,” Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani told a press conference on Sunday. His expectations are based on the achievements in the historical 2018, the expectation for the finalization of obligations stemming from the Prespa Agreement, the implementation of the priorities set …
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Thousands of protesters marched in Belgrade on Saturday for the third week in a row against what they say is a crackdown by the government of President Aleksandar Vucic on opposition parties and the media. Some chanted “Vucic is a thief” at the latest rally in the first significant opposition demonstrations since spring 2017, when …
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Zdravko Saveski While the majority of citizens barely make ends meet, the minority rich and ultra-rich do not know which luxury to throw away money at first. This is Macedonia today. More than half of the workers have a salary below 15,000 denars. For that paycheck, most of them grind, sweat, work overtime, on Saturdays, …
Ljupco Popovski Last week’s protests by employees at the Clinical Center about the amount of the monthly parking ticket for the staff were a surprise to the public, both for their fervor and their arguments of dissatisfaction. Suddenly, it turned out that it was such a big problem that even Prime Minister Zoran Zaev …
Aleksandar Nikoloski As the end of the year approaches, the questions always arise – what was the year that passed like, whether we were happier, more dignified, richer, did it pass lightly or not. If we add to this also the costs that always appear at the end of the year for the various …
Erol Rizaov Until January 15, the last big tour of a number of important people will be arriving in Macedonia, Nobel laureates, scientists, statesmen, presidents, prime ministers, ministers, politicians, diplomats, bankers, businessmen, senior EU and NATO officials, journalists and analysts of world-famous media. As the uncertainty in the adoption of the constitutional amendments conditioned by …
Although we have become accustomed to tough and unmerciful words in politics, however, the attack by Sela and Kasami on Zaev because he spoke of “national communist barbarism” crosses some boundaries, and only because Zaev repeated Stoltenberg’s statement Gorgi Spasov The decision to form an army in Kosovo has been welcomed joyfully by Albanians in …
N: We just can’t find the time to fight corruption Forshpan: Forget the stories that the government insists on adopting the new law, and the opposition, which runs the Commission for Elections and Appointments, deliberately did not call a meeting. Both sides work perfectly when they have an interest. Goran Adamovski When in March this …
Nikola Popovski Skopje, the capital of our homeland and its most important administrative, political, economic, educational, health, cultural, transport and urban center is on the road to extinction. Yes, towards extinction. Cities, like all other structures, are born, grow, mature and extinguish. Slowly, imperceptibly, invisible for a human lifetime, but moving along that path. Some …
How can a captured state be released through a law on inspection? Is it proposed to allow inspectors to enter our houses and homes? Such a provision is unconstitutional, and it is not in any legal system in the world. Ana Pavlovska-Daneva At a time when “major political issues” are being resolved, any other, which …
The five MPs of the parliamentary group charged with the violence on April 27 will be able to seek and receive amnesty for themselves. This will be provided by the new Amnesty law, whose draft-proposal was agreed on in the legislature yesterday. With it, there will be no amnesty for the organizers of the bloody …
As the Public Prosecutor’s Office was announcing that the report on Nikola Gruevski’s escape will be released in the next two weeks, the first photos and video footage of the careless life of the former prime minister in the Hungarian capital of Budapest were leaked. A video from Gruevski leaked yesterday, which was recorded by reporters …
