In an interview with Financial Times, outgoing EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn reiterated his disappointment that EU member states failed to agree that North Macedonia and Albania should be given the green light to start EU accession talks. According to Hahn, the failure came exactly at a time when the EU should have really reinforced its …
Mr. Poposki, your name was mentioned in the context of former VMRO-DPMNE officials planning to form new or new parties. Is there any truth to that? – No. In that context, how do you think of the outbursts of former ministers of the VMRO-DPMNE government, who openly speak out against the party’s current leadership, leaving …
On the sidelines of the 74th UN General Assembly in New York, Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran ZAEV spoke exclusively to IBNA about his first meeting with the new Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Prime Minister, how was your first meeting with the Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriacos Mitsotakis? For me it is …
IBNA exclusive interview with Zaev: Greece will support us in the European Council. Read More »
Passing the Prosecution law will be a particular challenge because we need to get votes and support from people who are suspected or accused of crimes, or from political parties whose management members are suing. The stumbling block in the negotiations with the opposition is not Katica Janeva, as her term ends on September 15th. …
New look of the center of the city, new management of the Drisla landfill, which will bring in money and cleaner air, removal of fountains from the river Vardar, new traffic solution – and other projects announced by the Mayor of the City of Skopje, Petre Shilegov, in an interview with Nezavisen Vesnik / Independent …
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Relations between North Macedonia and Serbia are traditionally good and improving, as shown by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s extending his invitation to the Grdelica Valley highway opening ceremony, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told Serbian newspaper Politika. “Serbian prime minister Ana Brnabic and I will soon start to cooperate on another project in the …
Italian Ambassador to Skopje, Carlo Romeo, says that North Macedonia and Albania actually were ready for a date for accession talks with the EU in June 2018, but that the EU ministers at the Luxembourg meeting had to come to a compromise. In an interview with Nezavisen Vesnik/Independent Daily newspaper, he emphasizes that he has …
We didn’t support Stevo Pendarovski in the second election round, instead our goal was to have a successful process so that we can move the country forward. The mood among the Albanian voters was on the side of the opposition, so DUI’s position was completely delegitimized. It is still too early to say whether at …
Kasami interview: Ahmeti is the favorite partner to both SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE Read More »
Stevo Pendarovski, the presidential candidate of SDSM and the coalition, is not discouraged by the low turnout and the narrow advantage he scored in the first round of the sixth presidential elections in the country. He is convinced that this outcome will be a motivating factor for the citizens to come out on May 5 …
Nezavisen interview with Pendarovski: I am the only candidate for all citizens Read More »
University professor and government coordinator for relations with NATO, Stevo Pendarovski is the candidate of the governing coalition for the presidential elections that will take place on April 21. In this interview for IBNA, Pendarovski comments his nomination for the presidential elections and his platform. “In my opinion, without domestic social cohesion and without good …
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rofessor Gjirgji Filipov is one of the numerous candidates that the ruling party SDSM is expected to select for the presidential elections. In this interview for IBNA, Filipov says that he has a clear vision and program for the future of the country. He says that he will be committed to uphold tolerance, co-existence and progress of …
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The interview with “The King of Exile”, former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski for TV Sitel, which, as we learned from the wiretapped materials, was the main “microphone” in the hands of his regime – is only the last episode of the Macedonian political theater of the absurd. The fifteen-minute-long conversation, in which he mostly talks …
57 candidates applied to be part of the anti-corruption commission at a call issued by the Parliament, which ran from 22 until 27 January. The candidates who have applied to be elected as members of the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption, including a president, are being interviewed Sunday at a session of the Parliament’s …
57 candidates interviewed to be elected as Anti-Corruption Commission members Read More »
PM Zoran Zaev discussed sincere friendship between the two countries and peoples, the benefits of the Prespa Agreement, the processes in the Macedonian and Greek parliaments, NATO membership, coming presidential elections, as well as the Nobel Peace Prize nomination in an interview with Greek daily Efimerida ton Syntakton. Zaev says the Prespa Agreement cannot be revised …
The public is rightfully angry over Nikola Gruevski’s escape, which raises questions about oversights, as well as about the capabilities of the police, admitted Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski. He said they did not have legal rights to follow the former prime minister. At the same time, he claims that the confidence in the MOI is …
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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 …
Ján Figeľ: The government is not immune to investigations and prosecutions Read More »
The West needs to improve its relations with Russia, but this is only possible if the situation in Ukraine changes, said Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov in an interview with the German newspaper Welt. “In the long run, we must weaken tensions between the West and Russia and strengthen co-operation with it. Of course, the …
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Only ten months after the entry of the “reform wing” in the structures of VMRO-DPMNE, they came to their exclusion from the party bodies. Kostadin Bogdanov, who was part of the Executive Committee, doubts that the entire process of the agreement with Greece, the vote in the Assembly and the subsequent purges is a well-planned …
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Recently dismissed VMRO-DPMNE vice-president, Mitko Jancev, calmly received the decision on his dismissal from office. He says he is waiting for an official document from the party to see if he is “only” dismissed from his vice presidential post, or was ‘kicked out” of his party membership. “If I am still a member of the …
Jancev for Nezavisen: I would lead VMRO-DPMNE if I see a team with a vision Read More »
The Prespa Agreement is a unique opportunity for reconciliation and resolving of a two decade-long dispute between Skopje and Athens, and it may never happen again, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini says in an interview with MIA. It will be clear tomorrow if there is a two-third majority in …
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