Robert Nesimi In the world of books “The uprising of Dervish Cara” no doubt occupies a unique place. It is a book that never saw the light in the original language in which it was written, but has already been published twice in another language, translated by two different translators. The book was written in …
The protests will be held at least until New Year’s Eve in front of the Parliament of Macedonia, where the new stages of the constitutional changes are taking place. Citizens gathering in front of the Assembly on daily basis require MPs to resign and not accept the change in the country’s constitutional name and acceptance …
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The Parliament adopted Monday the XXXVth draft-constitutional amendment by 64 votes ‘yes’, 14 ‘no’ and two ‘abstained’.The amendment will read “The Republic respects the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of neighboring countries”. Opposition MPs said the authorities have no mandate for the constitutional revision, which is not adopted by consensus, with only Greece benefiting from …
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Erol Rizaov The future of Macedonia is shocking and discouraging, as announced in the warning diagnosis in the World Bank Report. The real experts, not our party propagandists, have calculated that Macedonia needs an equal 70 years to reach the average of EU member states if it continues to move forward with the current turtle …
Brussels – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said today that the protection given by NATO’s member state Hungary to the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is not an issue for NATO, but something that should be resolved between Skopje and Budapest. “That’s not for me to comment. It is an issue that has to be …
Parliamentary debates continue in Macedonia regarding the approval of the amendments which are part of the Prespa Agreement on the name. Yesterday, MPs voted in favour of the amendment which changes the country’s constitutional name from “Republic of Macedonia” to “Republic of North Macedonia”, while today, lawmakers are expected to vote the two remaining amendments. …
The leaders of three opposition parties represented in the Hungarian parliament in an open letter called a “disgrace” the granting of asylum by the Viktor Orbán-led government to former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, reports Euractiv. “It is unacceptable that we should learn from the foreign press that the Hungarian government gave asylum in our …
The Ministry of Justice has not yet received response regarding extradition request for fugitive former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski from the competent ministry in Hungary, Justice Minister Renata Treneska Deskoska said at Sunday’s press conference. “The proper deadlines for response have not expired. We will wait, if we do not receive response within the deadlines, …
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The Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia on the continuation of the 64th session, with 67 votes in favor, four abstentions and 23 against, adopted the draft amendment XXXIII of the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia. The first amendment envisages in the Constitution the words “Republic of Macedonia” to be replaced by the words “Republic …
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“Turkish Cypriots are among the main beneficiaries of the hydrocarbons” Strong rhetoric by Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the question of hydrocarbon exploration in Cyprus. The Turkish president in his speech after the G-20 summit in Argentina said: “In no way will we allow to be violated the rights of the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’, …
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Upon request of the SPO, the Skopje Criminal Court has ordered a 30-day detention in ‘Empire’ case and revoked detention order in ‘Target-Fortress’ case for Macedonia’s former UBK director Saso Mijalkov, announced the Criminal Court. Criminal Court ordered a 30-day detention on grounds of flight risk and influencing witnesses. The Special Prosecutor’s Office launched new investigation under …
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Gjorgji Spasov The presidential election in Ukraine will be held on March 31, 2019. Approximately at that same time, the presidential election in Macedonia will also be held. And while already 15 politicians, public figures and businessmen in Ukraine announced that they intend to run for that important position in the country, and a dozen …
Concluding the part dedicated to the government’s economic failures, promises that the government will be held accountable for all the bad deeds it has done to Macedonia, and the announcements that the opposition party will defeat them all one by one, Hristijan Mickoski asked his supporters and supporters to sing “We have but one name …
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Although everyone expected to see the former chief of the secret police, Saso Mijalkov, in handcuffs, as all defendants from the Sutka prison were taken to court, the prison van took him directly into the court’s garage, and the public was allowed to enter the courtroom when the handcuffs were already removed from Mijalkov. The …
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Milco Veljanoski The legal state is the air we breathe, said the German legal philosopher Gustav Radbruch. Starting from this maxim, and reduced to the Macedonian conditions, the air quality is the same as the quality of the legal state, created for decades, with frequent changes in the legislation, which are regularly announced as reforms. …
A 36-year old man has confessed to removing border stone markers along the border between Macedonia and Greece, police say Thursday. “The regional border affairs center has investigated the incident that took place on November 23, when an unknown individual from 2:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. had damaged and removed border markers,” stated the Interior Ministry. …
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MEPs adopted the two amendments that require Hungary to extradite Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to Macedonia. The Social Democrats and the Greens a few days ago made separate amendments on the subject, but it was feared that the amendment proposed by the Greens would not pass because of its harsher content. The amendment submitted by …
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The government knew about the political asylum of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, and the most responsible for his escape is Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski. This is the perception and opinion of the citizens who were part of the public opinion survey, part of the Telma and MCIC project conducted by M-prospect – Skopje. The …
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Not even the stepping down from power, the intra-party turbulence, the turmoil, the shifts, the resignations, the trials, the allegations of crime and effective verdicts for top party officials significantly affected the ratings of VMRO-DPMNE. On the contrary, if the opinion poll conducted by the M-prospect agency for Telma’s project and the Macedonian Center for …
Belgium – Excluding several extremist votes from Greece and Bulgaria, vast majority of MEPs at last night’s debate prior to voting on 2018 report on the Republic of Macedonia, called for opening EU accession negotiations in June, however reminding that the country must continue with the same pace of reforms. Ivo Vajgl, Macedonia Rapporteur in …
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