The Immigration and Asylum Office of Hungary has taken a decision over the request of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski for political asylum in the country, report local media on Tuesday morning. Hungarian media publish the information from Hungarian Times, citing government and office sources, says the decision was taken through an urgent procedure, without …
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Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski became a VIP fugitive, former intelligence officials Goran Grujovski and Nikola Boskoski who are accused of being behind the massive wiretapping in Macedonia are free citizens in Greece, and Alil Demiri and Afrim Ismailovic, accused and already convicted for the five-time murder near Smilkovo Lake, are also walking freely in …
If the photos were not posted on his official Facebook page, few would have known that Albanian President Ilir Meta was on a two-day visit to Bitola and Prespa. Apart from a courtesy meeting with the Minister of Culture, Asaf Ademi, the senior guest from Tirana spent the rest of his stay in direct contact …
The formal extradition request for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is going to be sent to Hungary today or tomorrow at the latest, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska told the press on Tuesday. In addition to documents on the Tank case, in which Gruevski was sentenced to two years in prison, the Hungarian authorities will be …
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Erol Rizaov Nikola Gruevski has never been more present in Macedonia than now, since he fled the country. All conversations at weddings and funerals, in restaurants and cafes, in churches and mosques, before and after prayer, and some say during prayer, at MANU and in the market, in betting offices and gambling saloons, in operating …
Robert Nesimi The public in Macedonia is these days understandably obsessed with news of Gruevski’s escape to Hungary. At the same time it seems forgotten that the process of constitutional amendments is still going on in Parliament. Even during this process not much space was given to the legitimate and quite rational demands of the …
More than 720,000 citizens are supposed to come out and vote in the spring presidential election for the new “father of the nation” for it to get legitimacy. The turnout for successful elections, which, compared to the referendum, has dropped by ten percent (40 versus 50 percent) at the moment looks impossible for the disappointed …
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The escape of the former Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski has aggravated the political situation between majority and opposition. SDSM led by PM Zoran Zaev has pointed its finger toward the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski. According to this party, Mickoski has aided Gruevski to leave the country. “In a televised interview, Mickoski has …
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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz this Monday in Vienna is organizing a meeting for Prime Ministers of the Western Balkans which is to be attended by EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn as well as Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel. The talks will be attended by the Prime Minister …
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Mr. Figel’, what is the purpose of your visit to Macedonia? I am here as a former chief negotiator of Slovakia and its first European Commissioner. Also, Special EU Envoy for Promotion of Freedom of Religion. Iwas invited here to the USAID-supported National Convention on the EU. I was a colleague of your Secretary of …
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GROM’s leader Stevco Jakimovski estimates that with Gruevski’s escape we are all defeated: both the government and the opposition, the whole justice and himself.”But the biggest culprits are those who created the assumptions about the escape. Human rights violations, procedural law violations, trial without a lawyer, trial in enormously short deadlines, trial for a ridiculous …
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Erol Rizaov For the experienced experts in court procedures and processes, there were clear signals that there was preparation for the escape of Nikola Gruevski on several levels and with many involved people. From placing arguments before the domestic and world public about unfair trials, to transporting and seeking asylum as a victim of a …
The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office joined in the investigation following the information in the public and in the public interest after receiving certain details. They suspect that certain officials, by abusing their position and authorization, enabled the convicted person to leave the country. Within the pre-trial procedure, a series of measures for gathering evidence have …
Gjorgji Spasov After the weekend has passed, when couriers of verdicts for serving sentences don’t work, numerous television crews and police began the campaign called “Escorting the convicted felon Gruevski to prison”. The large audience sitting in front of the TV screens watched as they looked for him in his home from which he “went …
Ljupco Popovski The spectacular disappearance of Nikola Gruevski from Skopje has fueled all possible conspiracy theories of which Macedonia could never get rid. The basic thread of those theories is that his disappearance is a planned agreement at the highest peaks of the current government with Gruevski, for the former prime minister to flee the …
Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s escape has put his former closest associates, Mile Janakieski and Kiril Bozinovski, in the Sutka prison facility. Unlike the richest Macedonian Orce Kamcev, who received decent accommodation in Sutka in one of the so-called “Hague rooms”, as we learn, Janakieski and Bozinovski are placed in ordinary cells. From what the …
Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev is visiting Sofia for the fourth edition of the Startup Europe Summit which takes place on Thursday. The meeting will be attended by Prime Ministers of the Western Balkan countries and Mariya Gabriel, the EU Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society. During the his visit to Bugaria, Zaev is …
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Slobodanka Jovanovska Editor in Chief of Nezavisen Vesnik There is no one to resign in Macedonia for the major scandal that happened this week, Nikola Gruevski’s escape. Moreover, the way Prime Minister Zoran Zaev started with the excuses, the only one he would ask to resign would be Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Yesterday, Zaev …
Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said the Interior Ministry had acted in line with a court order and within its legal jurisdiction noting that the procedure for his extradition had been opened after the Hungarian interior ministry had sent a notification confirming Gruevski’s whereabouts in Budapest. “Without a court order, the Interior Ministry cannot approach …
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While the Alpha police unit along with the journalists knocked on his door and looked for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski so he could be taken to the Sutka penitentiary, and searched the trunks of cars that entered the headquarters of VMRO-DPMNE, Gruevski announced that he had left for Budapest, to his close friend Viktor …
