MANU and BAN will help carry out the Good Neighborly Relations Agreement

The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU) and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAN) during their meeting on Monday expressed readiness to help both governments carry out the Good Neighborly Relations Agreement. To do this, the academies will form an inter-academic group headed by their presidents. The inter-academic group, as MANU writes in its …

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Heavy lifting by heavy EU states required for Macedonia name compromise, says ex-PM

Without a name compromise, the EU Balkan strategy risks collapse, Carl Bildt tweeted on Monday. “I think it will require some heavy lifting by heavy EU states and institutions to get a Macedonia name compromise. But without one the EU Balkan strategy risks collapse,” the former premier and foreign minister of Sweden wrote on his …

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Organizers, police release vastly different numbers of Athens protest

The protest at the main square in Athens on Sunday titled “Macedonia means Greece” was calm and incident-free, MIA reports from the Greek capital. Prior to the protest, organizers said people from all over the country arrived for the rally, expecting at least one million people to attend. On the other hand, the Greek police …

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“Treasury” trial begins

Trial in the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) case dubbed “Treasury” begins in the Skopje-based Criminal Court on Monday. Former director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) Saso Mijalkov, his office chief Toni Jakimovski, former UBK section head Goran Grujevski and former assistant minister of interior Nebojsa Stajkovic are indicted in the case. “Treasury” refers …

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Osmani: Protests should not influence name negotiations

Deputy PM for European Affairs Bujar Osmani described the peaceful and non-violent protests in Athens on Sunday as part of the public debate and a guaranteed right in a democracy, which should nonetheless have no influence over the name dispute resolution process. “However,” Osmani said before his meeting with Western Balkans ambassadors, “We should also not …

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Health Minister presents measures to reduce newborns and maternal deaths

Short-term up to 3 months and long-term up to 6 months measures are planned to be carried out for reduction of newborns and maternal mortality rate in Macedonia. The package of measures is prepared in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and presented at Sunday’s press conference by Health Minister Venko Filipce, who …

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Athens Rally Live: “Macedonia is Greek”

Under strong security measures, closed streets and metro stations, today in the Syntagma Square the long-awaited protest is held before the Greek parliament. Rally spokesman Michalis Patsikas told reporters that “it will be majestic. This has never happened before.” The keynote speaker at the rally will be the famous composer Mikis Theodorakis. <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/WJFXjP3uLas” …

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Greece to hold rally and counter-protest over ‘Macedonia’ in Athens

Hundreds of thousands of Greeks are expected to fill central Syntagma Square in Athens on Sunday to protest over Greek attempts to resolve a longstanding name row with Macedonia, MIA reports from Athens. Around 1,500 buses have been chartered to bring demonstrators from the provinces to the capital where the rally is to begin at …

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Forum for Democratic Macedonia voices support for name dispute settlement

The Forum for Democratic Macedonia (FDM) welcomed Thursday the initiative for settling the name issue – the main obstacle to Macedonia’s integration with the European Union and NATO. Today’s visit of UN name mediator Matthew Nimetz to Macedonia, as well as the recent meeting of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras …

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President Ivanov: Name solution without encroaching on identity

The settling of differences over the name must be in compliance with international law and international treaties, President Gjorge Ivanov told Matthew Nimetz, UN special envoy in the name talks, at their meeting Thursday in Skopje. Welcoming steps aimed at intensifying the dialogue, Ivanov noted that a name settlement could be sought only in the …

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Zaev: Partnership between governments, private sector and education for progressive society

The partnership between the governments, the private sector and the education systems provides motivating and progressive society, PM Zoran Zaev said at Thursday’s opening of Institute for Business & Management Heidelberg – Skopje, which organises the first international conference titled “International Standards in Controlling – Implementation in Practice” in cooperation with the Academy of Banking …

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Treaty on good neighborliness increases trade between Bulgaria and Macedonia

Trade between Bulgaria and Macedonia grew by nearly 11 per cent in 2017 whereat Bulgarian exports to Macedonia increased by 3 per cent, economic analyst Ljubomir Levicharov said explaining that it is because of the treaty on good neighborliness signed between the two countries, Bulgarian TV Evropa reported. Experts say that he interest for business …

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Greece loses if neighbors do not integrate in NATO, EU: Thessaloniki Mayor

 Instead of making it easier for our neighbor, we call them Gypsy-Skopians, says Thessaloniki mayor Yiannis Boutaris, MIA reports from Greece. “We are losing our dignity in NATO and the European Union, making it harder for our neighbor who seeks its identity like a small child. Then what we do? We are calling them Gypsy-Skopians. …

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Neither Trump nor Putin are wanted as leaders of Macedonia, Gallup poll reveals

Macedonians prefer Vladimir Putin to Donald Trump to be the leader of Macedonia, but a convincing majority said they won’t chose either of them to lead the country, show results of the Gallup International’s 41st Annual Global End of Year Survey. Asked to pick between Putin and Trump as leaders of Macedonia, 29% of the respondents …

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Spokesman Bosnjakovski: Decision to rename Skopje’s airport and highway to be adopted soon

Under a decision of the government, to be adopted soon, the Skopje Airport and the highway will be renamed as announced after the Davos meeting of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras. “A decision should be made by the government and it is supposed to happen in the coming period,” government …

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Stoltenberg: NATO to invite Macedonia once name dispute is resolved

NATO will extend an invitation to Macedonia to join the Alliance once a mutually acceptable solution to the name issue within the UN is reached, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Wednesday’s edition of Belgrade daily Politika. Referring to the security situation in the world and the Balkans, he spoke about his visit to Skopje …

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Open Budget Survey 2017: Macedonia lacks budget transparency

Macedonia has been ranked amongst the countries having poor budget transparency, the Center for Economic Analyses  (CEA) said Tuesday citing the Open Budget Survey 2017 of the International Budget Partnership (IBP). After the erosion of fiscal discipline and wide-scale abuse of executive power to the point when the ruling party’s style of governance by the …

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Still unclear when Parliament will discuss the 35,569 amendments

It is as yet unclear when Parliament will discuss the amendments to the Law on the Use of Languages submitted by opposition party VMRO-DPMNE. Out of the total 35,569 amendments, only 17,000 have been translated into Albanian so far, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi said on Tuesday. The amendments, according to Xhaferi, are a political issue, and VMRO-DPMNE’s …

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