It is obvious that the goal was to declare a state of emergency, and the question is what would have happened to the country. The investigation to check the information that the military actively participated in the incidents in the Parliament. It is indicative that Nikola Gruevski was out of the country, so it should …
The Criminal Council rejected the appeal of former director of the Security and Counterintelligence Directorate, Saso Mijalkov, therefore he is staying in the investigative prison in Sutka. The judges confirmed that Mijalkov was a flight risk and a threat to influencing witnesses, and confirmed the judge’s decision on a pre-trial procedure that ordered detention for …
Aleksandar Nikoloski Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE “It’s a nation with a complex that has to look for its roots 2000 years back, if there wasn’t for Alexander the Great, we wouldn’t have known who we are, stop with this nonsense, I am embarrassed to listen to you…” – These words resounded strongly last week. And …
Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, after meeting with NATO foreign ministers, said he was very encouraged by the support Macedonia has received, announcing that the country should become a member of the alliance in February 2020. “For us this is unfinished business. We have wanted this NATO membership since 1993, and we were supposed to join …
Erol Rizaov The thing that all reasonable people thought, and for which the court inquiry needed evidence, began to unfold in court. Testimonies of the crimes on April 27 2017 come to light as the undercover organization under Nikola Gruevski’s directives from Vienna worked to its perpetrators and preparations for the presidential residence of Gjorge …
MEP David McAllister and the MEP Knut Fleckenstein at Wednesday’s meeting with Zoran Zaev expressed strong support to implementation of Prespa Agreement and opening of EU accession negotiations with Macedonia. “EU lawmakers conveyed strong support from the European Parliament to the Prespa Agreement, which is assessed as an example especially for the Western Balkans, but …
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the Western Balkans meeting together with EU foreign policy chief Federika Mogherini in Brussels, have expressed a strong support for the Prespa Agreement to be finalized and implemented, says a top diplomat of the Alliance. Support was extended by all NATO members. The Greek minister said that the courage of Skopje …
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Before fleeing the country, Macedonia’s former PM, Nikola Gruevski had sent a letter to EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn, EU chief of diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, EU Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic and the chairman of EPP, Joseph Daul. In this letter, Gruevski wrote that the two year prison sentence that he was given relied …
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Judge in Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) case dubbed Titanic ordered Wednesday a 30-day detention for former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, who has fled to Hungary. The detention order will be activated upon Gruevski’s return to the country. Titanic refers to crimes related to election irregularities. Twenty-one individuals are indicted in the case, including former prime minister …
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The Skopje Criminal Court ordered a 30-day detention to former director of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) Vladimir Atanasovski in relation to his involvement in the events of 27 April 2017 in Parliament. He was arrested late Tuesday on charges of “association for purposes of hostile activity” under the Criminal Code and was …
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Nikola Popovski Many in and out of Macedonia warn that the anti-principle of de facto impunity for serious crimes in the country has been deeply rooted, that justice cannot be reached for anyone, or only a few, and that the procedures leading to open abuses and open crime by state authorities are most often covered …
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was met, but failed to speak to Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban, who opened the doors of his country to former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, at the Summit of CEI governments in Zagreb. Orban in Zagreb was part of the dinner organized by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, as Zaev said, but …
Macedonia is a positive example in the Balkans and has the support of the European countries and EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn to implement the Prespa Agreement and to conclude the Euro-Atlantic integration process, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev stated after the summit of heads of governments of member countries of the Central European Initiative (CEI), held …
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The Albanian Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Ditmir Bushati is in Brussels to participate in the meeting of NATO’s Foreign ministers. During his stay in Brussels, minister Bushati had a meeting with the head of the Committee for Foreign Policy at the European Parliament, David McAllister. Minister Bushati thanked Mr. McAllister about the constant …
The Government of Macedonia has made a clarification statement, regarding the statement made by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, according to which “the Prespa Agreement creates potential opportunities for teaching the Macedonian language in Greece”. IBNA contacted the Government Spokesman of Macedonia, Mile Bosnjakovski who said: “The Prespa Agreement provides an opportunity for friendship and strategic …
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev is on an official visit to Croatia where he held a meeting with the Prime Minister of this country, Andrej Plenkovic. According to the government cabinet, PM Zaev has thanked his Croatian counterpart for the support offered by Croatia in its integration path in the EU and NATO. On his part, …
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We will not accept any voluntary interpretation of the Prespa Agreement prior to its ratification, said Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos at a meeting with Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor, MIA reports from Athens. “We are not prepared to accept voluntary interpretations of the Prespa Agreement, even more when they radiate with irredentism, prior to its ratification. …
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Aleksandra M. Mitevska The current ruling government has hit a “minefield”, set probably in the period before the outbreak of the political crisis in the country, given the information that the devices for wiretapping the PBX in the new public prosecutor’s office date back to the still inviolable rule of VMRO-DPMNE. More precisely, from the …
NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Brussels at the two-day meeting will welcome the progress that Macedonia’s making moving towards full membership of NATO and will express support to Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday. “Ukraine is not a NATO member but we strongly support Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. NATO Allies will …
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Brussels – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday that the protection given to Hungary as a member of the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is not an issue for NATO, but something that should be resolved by Skopje and Budapest. “That’s not for me to comment. It is an issue that has to be …
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