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Reconciliation commission initiated by the independent MP group to be established Monday

05/11/2018 14:50

Establishment of the reconciliation commission, initiated by the independent MP group of VMRO-DPMNE and Coalition For Better Macedonia, will be discussed at next week’s coordination meeting, agreed Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi, Vice Speakers and whips on Monday. The delay resulted from today’s absence of Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska from the independent MP group of VMRO-DPMNE and Coalition …

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Gruevski will keep his mandate, but not his freedom

05/11/2018 12:31

The chances of depriving the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of his parliamentary mandate due to the final verdict on the case ‘Tank’ are very small. The two-thirds majority, which passed the decision to join the constitutional changes, is unlikely to be repeated in the case of Gruevski. His until recently fellow party members, who …

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VMRO-DPMNE will appeal the decision on freezing the party’s property in Strasbourg

04/11/2018 15:12

VMRO-DPMNE prepares an appeal to the Strasbourg court after the court’s decision to positively respond to the SPO’s demand for freezing the property. The main opposition party believes that it is a politically motivated decision. “First and foremost, there is no mandate, authority and competence to initiate a request for the determination of the interim …

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Tevdovski: Progressive tax to be introduced for income over MKD 90,000

04/11/2018 12:08

The Macedonian Government is introducing a progressive income tax, Finance Minister Dragan Tevdovski told a news conference Saturday. MKD 90,000 is the threshold income above which the tax will shift by an additional 8 percent. Minister Tevdovski presented the tax reform saying that most citizens will pay the same tax as before, with the increased …

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Polluted, according to the constitution and laws

02/11/2018 16:43

Marija Pavleska Two days ago, on October 31, the European Environment Agency ranked Macedonia as the most polluted country in Europe. In the agency’s report, Macedonia is a “leader in Europe” with more than one-third higher levels of PM2.5 than the country that is placed second it in the report. Findings from the report are …

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PM Zaev accepts proposals from VMRO-DPMNE independent MP group

02/11/2018 15:09

Prime Minister Zaev accepted the proposals of the independent MP group of VMRO-DPMNE and Coalition for Better Macedonia and the Government will incorporate these proposals in the draft-constitutional amendments it is set to forward to the Parliament today, said MP Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska. Kanceska-Milevska told a press conference their request for safeguards of the identity would …

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Bad news from VMRO-DPMNE is good news

02/11/2018 15:00

Erol Rizaov Bad news from VMRO-DPMNE is good news for Macedonia. The collapse of the only legal revolutionary party in Europe can be prevented by President Hristijan Mickoski if he submits an irrevocable resignation, which will mark the beginning of the consolidation of the opposition. The widespread tsunami of resignations in the party top if …

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Defocused from the future

02/11/2018 09:40

Nikola Popovski While in Macedonia, the public is diligently discussing whether the name and the Constitution of the country should be changed, whether to give amnesty to crime and terrorism of all kinds, and whether the illegally acquired property of the aforementioned protagonists should be confiscated, in conditions when the institutions are in active phase …

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Mijalkov shakes or strengthens Mickoski’s position

01/11/2018 16:07

On Monday evening, the president of the Youth Forces Union of VMRO-DPMNE Luka Krzaloski with his crew was in Strumica where they watched the exhibition and the documentary film about the revolutionaries from that part of Macedonia. Thirty hours later, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE’s Young Forces resigned. He thought about it long and hard, but …

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Bujar Osmani to meet Katrougalos in Athens on Nov 1st

01/11/2018 12:30

Bujar Osmani, Vice-President of the Macedonian government responsible for European affairs, will travel to Athens on Thursday, November 1st, on the occasion of the establishment of a direct Athens-Skopje route by Aegean Airlines. Osmani, according to the news agency, will have a meeting with Greek Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Georgios Katrougalos. Later on, the two …

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SPO freezes VMRO-DPMNE’s entire property

01/11/2018 12:23

At the request of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, a judge of the Basic Court Skopje 1 issued a decision imposing a temporary measure for freezing property of the political party VMRO-DPMNE. The measure has frozen a total of 69 real estate properties, including the building where the party’s headquarters are located, the SPO said. …

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Mickoski surrounded on all sides

31/10/2018 17:10

Gjorgji Spasov If politics is “the art of perceiving the opportunities for achieving clearly defined goals,” as German statesman Bismarck said, then Hristijan Mickoski is probably the worst artist in Macedonia at this time. In his recent speech in the MNT, he again reiterated that “the key goal of his party is to build the …

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Will Ivanov be seated on the defendant’s bench?

31/10/2018 16:25

Erol Rizaov Skopje Public Prosecutor’s Office launched a pre-investigative procedure for the President of the State Gjorge Ivanov. Daniela Rangelova, one of the great forces from VMRO-DPMNE’s top, resigned as the president of the VMRO-DPMNE Union of Women. Although both announcements were expected, they still echoed loudly in the public as yet another statement that …

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The April 27 amnesty reached Smilkovci and Diva Naselba

31/10/2018 14:43

There will be reconciliation in the Parliament, and there will be no amnesty, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Tuesday. He emphasized that the coordinative body will work on overall current reconciliation, as well as the perspectives in Macedonia. “As soon as decisions are made, we will announce them to the public. The April 27 events …

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Zaev: The reform agenda is back in Parliament

31/10/2018 14:39

The reform agenda has returned to the Parliament. We should congratulate the responsibility of the two-thirds majority of MPs, who yesterday brought amendments to the laws of the public prosecutor’s office, the criminal procedure and the courts, wrote Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on his Facebook page. With the changes, according to Zaev, the control over …

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Mijalkov is waiting on Mickoski to see if he will file a lawsuit

31/10/2018 12:28

Former director of the UBK, Saso Mijalkov, who was expelled from VMRO-DPMNE, appeared in the courtroom today for the “Titanic 2” case for election irregularities. Mijalkov was not available for statements and said that he had come here for trial and that he would give a statement on another occasion. Asked whether he would file …

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Quarrel after reconciliation

30/10/2018 16:57

Petar Arsovski It seems that it would be easier for SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE to forgive each other, than VMRO-DPMNE to forgive itself. As the situation in the main opposition party began to unfold, it seems that they will remain stuck in their own Walpurgis fate for a longer term. The latest letter Mijalkov sent to …

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Zaev: Rules of procedure are clearly defined, process to be completed in January

30/10/2018 15:58

PM Zoran Zaev expects that all deadlines in the process of adopting constitutional amendments will be met, which are an obligation according to the Prespa Agreement. “The rules of procedures deadlines are clearly defined. If we adopt the draft amendments at government’s session on Nov. 5 and we forward them to the parliament, then the …

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Pre-investigative procedure for Ivanov

30/10/2018 13:28

Skopje-based Public Prosecution launched a pre-investigative procedure over Ivanov’s failure to sign language law and the Prespa Agreement. The Primary Prosecutor’s Office-Skopje has launched a pre-investigative procedure regarding President Gjorge Ivanov’s failure to sign the Law on Languages and the Prespa Agreement. The prosecutor’s office says the procedure has been initiated following two anonymous reports. …

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Did they get into a fight after their post-referendum meeting?

30/10/2018 13:13

VMRO-DPMNE refuses to respond to the letter sent by the excluded Saso Mijalkov to the party leadership. The estimates in the “White Palace” are that any further interference into the quarrel with the man they consider the main culprit for the division in the Parliament will bring only harm, especially as it was clearly known …

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