We will never find out whether, if Nikola Gruevski succeeded in forming a government after the last parliamentary elections, the pre-election promises to reduce the employment rate below 18% by the end of 2020 would create 70,000 new jobs, 4,000 euros in aid for each company that will hire a redundant worker and guarantee this …
Mid-October, i.e. before Brussels’ decision to (not) get a date for accession negotiations with the EU, turned out not to be the deadline for adopting the prosecution law. The political parties are blaming their political opponents, accusing them of failing to pass the law, which, while undermined by the ruling of the European powers, is …
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Goran Adamovski By Monday at the latest, Minister Oliver Spasovski needs to set up a working group to implement the vetting process for employees of the Interior Ministry. It will be attended by up to three representatives of the political parties in Parliament. They will act as observers of the process. Vetting or the examination …
Goran Adamovski During these past few days while Macedonia was celebrating October 11 – the Day of the People’s Uprising in 1941 against the fascist regime, Bulgaria sent our country additional conditions that we must meet in order to get Sofia’s green light in the process of accession negotiations with the European Union. The country …
Goran Adamovski Kosovo will conduct a population census in 2021. It has already conducted a census in 2011, but in the meantime, the country administratively counted its voters in order to update its voter list. The country can always calculate how many residents it has, all it has to do, for instance, is check how …
Goran Adamovski Basically all of the former Yugoslavian countries are facing the problem of over-employed and inefficient public administration. Of course, this is not only a Balkan phenomenon, but many other non-transition states don’t know what to do with their public administration, so they create reforms that don’t really have a particular effect. But in …
Goran Adamovski Former Prime Minister and President Branko Crvenkovski is a man of principles. And now that the former Intelligence head Zoran Verushevski has publicly said that the so-called”bombs” from the wiretapped conversations had been handed over to the then SDSM leader and then were “modified”, he has maintained his position not to comment on …
Goran Adamovski Requirements for abolishing apanages at any level for any position, life-long pensions for former presidents, cash and other allowances for all governing boards, drastic reduction in officials’ travel expenses, more precisely the provision of funds in the amount of public transportation fare… These requirements will probably be difficult to achieve, but they are …
Goran Adamovski Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani defends his party colleague Hisen Xhemaili, so he leisurely concludes that he has not been convicted in the 2001 “Mavrovo workers” case. He added that according to the information he had, the newly appointed minister had taken part in a brutal torture on five construction workers abducted in …
Goran Adamovski The trial for a case where an MP is being tried for election irregularities is postponed because the MP is supposed to attend a coordination meeting with the Parliament Speaker. This news that came out of the building of the Skopje-based Criminal Court yesterday is all you need to know about the way …
Goran Adamovski Information from the Public Prosecutor’s Office that of the one million euros, which, according to the investigation, were paid to Bojan Jovanovski and Zoran Mileski by Orce Kamcev, less than 4,500 euros were spent on Katica Janeva’s furniture and might cost her her freedom, is shocking as well as much as the news …
Goran Adamovski The resourceful Greeks made T-shirts mocking the removal of the sixteen-rayed Kutlesh sun off of the manholes on the streets of Skopje. While the Greeks were trying to score on such a banal thing, a person from Bitola fired back and spray-painted the sun back on the manholes. During all that time, unknown …
President Stevo Pendarovski has shown how responsible politicians should behave, especially when in office. In just a few points, the head of state said what every free-thinking citizen thinks: the investigation into the “Racket” case is not fast and thorough, prosecutors went on vacation as if it were a regular case, the public’s disappointment with …
Goran Adamovski Transfer Anita Angelovska-Bezhoska, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, to the Government and appoint her as Finance Minister, and appoint Fatmir Besimi as NB Governor instead. This, according to the media in Albanian, is the latest condition that Ali Ahmeti’s Democrats have imposed on Prime Minister Zoran Zaev …
Goran Adamovski If the interior minister was not attending a a public event on Thursday, we probably would never have known that one victims in the traffic accident near Drachevo was quite familiar to the police. Although he was less than 21 years old, the boy from Batinci had been stopped by the police up …
Goran Adamovski Macedonia was more than a dignified host to Pope Francis. The approximately ten hours that the Holy Father spent on Macedonian soil could convince him of the words he had said before landing at the Skopje airport: “The most beautiful mosaics are the ones that are richest in colors.” The energy that could …
Goran Adamovski When in March 2016 the so-called Balkan Route was closed, over 40,000 migrants from poor African and Asian countries were left stuck on Greek territory. Overnight, an order from “upstairs” arrived that the gates of Gevgelija should no longer be open to those that without a single document, but with a suitcase full …
Goran Adamovski Economy Minister Kreshnik Bekteshi is the first to publicly announce he will not tell his sister and the sister-in-law to resign from the jobs they recently got in well-off state-owned companies. According to his logic, is all the same if close relatives of government officials get excellent jobs just when their close relative …
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