Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov is set to meet Tuesday afternoon with the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In Washington, he is also scheduled to meet senior officials of the US administration, National Security Council, US Department of State, US Congress as well as with the representatives of NGOs and other institutions, Ministry of …
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Macedonia’s parliament resumes its duties Monday after a three-week summer break. Information whether and how the MPs and parliamentary groups will participate in the public campaign for the referendum is expected to be known this week, and also whether the parliament, as authorized proposer, will monitor the work of election bodies that will conduct the …
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Has the new leader of the main opposition party, Hristijan Mickoski, decided to continue the hard “eliminate, then rule” tactics, despite his loud indications that the new party statute will contribute to greater democratization? In the moments of indecision over the positions of the party related to the referendum, which will be held in less …
2018 Operational Employment Plan and pilot programme Youth Guarantee are being successfully implemented. This shows that we have created effective mechanisms to reduce unemployment in Macedonia and most likely in the next period will yield positive results for unemployed young people, Minister of Labour and Social Policy Mila Carovska told Sunday’s press briefing. MKD 987 …
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At the next government session on Wednesday, the government will determine how much funds will be allocated for the campaign for the upcoming referendum on the agreement between Macedonia and Greece. So far, only the Ministry of Defense has published information on how much funds will be allocated for the upcoming referendum. Other ministries do …
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Phantom voters in the Voter’s List do not exist, according to State Election Commission (SEC) President Oliver Derkovski, who said that the list is a ‘dynamic category’ and can never be ‘ideally edited’. “I assure you, there are no phantom voters in the Voter’s List. The term was used in the past several years out …
The head of the Skopje police Toni Jakimovski is the most mentioned name for the successor to the replaced Lazo Velkovski in the Public Security Bureau. Although his appointment seems to be a done deal, because his colleagues at the Ministry of Interior and representatives of the international community gave him a green light, the …
Return of the phantoms. With this film title, the non-governmental CIVIL recently depicted, unfortunately, the real situation with the Voters’ List, after several citizens reacted that people duly registered with the SEC and the Ministry of the Interior and removed from the list during the parliamentary election in 2016 have returned to the same addresses. …
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Prime Minister Zoran Zaev held Thursday a meeting with the Dutch Ambassador to Macedonia, Wouter Plomp, in which support was expressed for the policies bringing Macedonia closer to Euro-Atlantic accession. “I expect the majority of citizens to vote for the Euro-Atlantic future of the Republic of Macedonia in the upcoming referendum,” said PM Zaev, according …
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After criticism made by some of the public and municipal organizations, VMRO-DPMNE will change the party’s Statute, which has been recently sent to the country’s local committees for a review. Warnings that there will be even greater centralization in VMRO-DPMNE, filling organs and bodies with people close to the president and the senior leadership, and …
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Former European Commission’s Director-General for Enlargement Pierre Mirel explains that Macedonia should have been separated from Albania with regards to setting a date for commencing the EU accession talks, and says he regrets France’s decision to postpone this process. – It is not so terrible for Albania if it is postponed for a year, because …
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev met Wednesday with representatives of the Macedonian diaspora in Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and the United States. In the meeting, support was extended for the government policies bringing Macedonia closer to NATO and EU membership, the government’s press service said. The interlocutors discussed several current issues, including the importance …
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Thus far a total of 742 citizens have filed applications for voting abroad at the 30 September name referendum, the State Election Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday. Out of the total number of applications, 702 have been accepted, 11 rejected, while the rest are being processed, SEC said. SEC also urges citizens to check their …
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Four out of 77 companies to be funded after a call of the Economic Growth Plan have declared that their ownership structure consists of a public office holder or a family member, the Fund for Innovations and Technology Development said. Investments projects of the four companies that have won funding of the first call of the …
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Developments over the leaders’ meetings, the scheduled referendum without an agreement reached between the parties, the Ilinden holiday, summer holidays, but also the internal battles “cooled down” the planned “Working Summer” of VMRO-DPMNE. When leader Hristijan Mickoski threatened to clear up the crimes of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev from the square in Kavadarci on July …
The government should decide today on the way in which it will inform the public and the citizens about the importance of the upcoming referendum and the significance of the success of the Agreement with Greece for the future of the country, as well as the negative implications if the referendum fails. Although public propaganda …
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On the day the government was supposed to dismiss Lazo Velkovski, Director of the Public Security Bureau, whose daughter went on vacation to Greece with an official vehicle of the Ministry of Interior, the MOI was shook by another similar scandal. Primislav Dimovski, the commander of the unit Alpha, stayed in Ohrid for the weekend …
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Ministry for Transport and Communications is to announce soon new tender for the allocation of financial support for low cost carriers, Minister Goran Sugareski told Monday answering reporters’ question related to suspension of several flights by Wizz Air, which was the only airline that applied at the previous tender. “Last week, the low cost carriers …
The agreement protects the Macedonian identity. Citizens of Macedonia will proudly join the NATO and the EU. It’s time for a decision! We are moving forward to NATO and EU, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev wrote in his Facebook post on Monday evening. The post is part of Government’s campaign on upcoming autumn referendum on Prespa …
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Mullah Rexhep Memishi, who was also the teacher of the seven Macedonian citizens who were sent back to Macedonia last week, was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2016. For five years, a mullah from the Tutun Suz mosque in Skopje’s Cair will be released from prison and no one can guarantee that he …
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