Mayor of the City of Skopje Petre Silegov canceled his visit to Budapest to be held on November 22. At the meeting that was scheduled earlier, he was supposed to discuss and exchange experiences on urbanism with the city officials. The cancellation of the meeting is due to recent events related to former Prime Minister …
Mile Janakieski, former minister of transport and communications, and Kiril Bozinovski, former government secretary-general, have been detained and transferred to the Sutka prison, the Ministry of Interior said. Both were detained early on Wednesday upon an order issued by the Criminal Court at the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. Janakieski and Bozinovski are indicted …
The Special Prosecutor’s Office has no guilt in the escape of Nikola Gruevski. We have continually urged and filed requests for detention and the court was the institution that took the decisions, said prosecutor Lile Stefanova on Wednesday. Stefanova told reporters that the responsibility for Gruevski’s escape was institutional. “SPO has continually appealed and filed …
The questions of ethnic and religious affiliation to be excluded from the census that should be conducted in April 2020, the State Statistical Office proposes. The definitive decision on this issue will have to be made with the Census Law expected no later than February next year. The purpose of the proposal is to avoid …
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Ilo Trajkovski The issue of leaving the country is getting more and more serious. We run out of doctors and workers, there are less and less young people, and the elderly are left on their own. Along with this, the country runs out of hope, the prospect disappears. Stories of NATO and EU integration don’t …
Orce Kamcev, the businessman who was named by the renowned economic magazine Forbes as the richest Macedonian, bought a hospital, an agricultural plant, a dairy factory during VMRO-DPMNE’s rule, and now he probably ponders how to buy his own freedom in the investigative prison in Sutka. Kamcev’s attorney Antonio Apostolski appealed on Saturday to the …
The Skopje Criminal Court issued an order yesterday to arrest former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who did not hand himself to the authorities on Friday for serving his two-year prison sentence in the Sutka penitentiary. The court also asked to issue an arrest warrant for Gruevski, and the Ministry of Interior, as it is stated, …
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Extraordinary coordination with the vice-presidents of parliament and the coordinators of the parliamentary groups for reviewing the status of Nikola Gruevski as an MP, announced Speaker Talat Xhaferi after the former prime minister announced that he had fled to Hungary. – Members of VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group have so far reported Gruevski as absent from the sessions, …
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Nikola Gruevski through his official Facebook profile wrote that he is in Hungary and that he asked for political asylum from the authorities there. “In the last few days I have received countless threats after my life. I am in Budapest now, and I sought political asylum from the Hungarian authorities. I will always remain …
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The police searched yesterday the home of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski and several other locations will also be targeted. Other measures will also be taken, such as car checks, along with enhanced police presence at the exit of Skopje and border crossings, said Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski on Tuesday. Minister Spasovski told reporters …
Former head of the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence and one of the excluded members of VMRO-DPMNE Saso Mijalkov said he didn’t know the whereabouts of his first cousin and former PM Nikola Gruevski, who has been wanted by the police since last night. “I don’t know,” Mijalkov responded briefly to a reporter who asked …
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The Skopje based Criminal Court issued an order this afternoon to arrest former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who did not hand himself over to the authorities on Friday for serving his two-year prison sentence in the Sutka penitentiary. The court also asked to issue an arrest warrant for Gruevski, and the Ministry of Interior, as …
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Vice PM for European Affairs Bujar Osmani briefed Monday in Brussels the EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, about Macedonia’s progress in implementing the necessary reforms on the road to EU membership. ‘The (reform) plan 18 has already been adopted by the Government and its implementation, for now, is going smoothly. …
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Petar Arsovski Donald Trump as a political phenomenon has been a subject to analysis from several aspects of political communication for quite some time. As president, who was elected with the lowest rating in the history of presidential elections, he was already a surprise for the classic theory of political marketing. But even more, during …
Erol Rizaov Macedonia is waiting for Nikola Gruevski to appear before the prison gates and become the most famous prisoner. Locking the person that is synonymous with evil behind bars will not change anything in people’s lives, however, it will increase the hopes and chances for the rule of law in this poor country. It …
Businessman Orce Kamcev, who is in custody in the Sutka investigative prison, cannot be bailed out of custody. His lawyer filed an appeal on Saturday to the judge’s decision to give Kamcev a pre-trial detention order for a thirty-day detention. The court should decide whether Kamcev’s appeal will be accepted with which he requests his …
Four constitutional amendments which enable the change of the country’s name from “Republic of Macedonia” to “Republic of North Macedonia” have received the green light during the weekend in the parliamentary committees. Yesterday, MPs held debates on the fourth amendment which relates to the Diaspora.In the past few days, parliamentary committees have also approved other …
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It’s been two days now that authorities in The Republic of Macedonia are looking for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, for whom the court has handed a two year prison sentence. Gruevski must go to the penitentiary facility where he’s supposed to serve his sentence. The former PM was convicted by the court following the trial …
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Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani, in his capacity as chief negotiator and head of the state delegation for EU negotiations, as of Monday will lead a government delegation in a visit to Brussels for a working session with European Commission representatives. At the session, Chapter 24: Justice, Freedom and Security will be …
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The Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Issues, chaired by Talat Xhaferi, will begin debating the fourth amendment to the Constitution stemming from the Prespa Agreement between Macedonia and Greece on Sunday. The fourth draft-amendment, in addition to affirming the Macedonian identity, will read that ‘the Republic protects the rights and interests of its nationals living or …
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