While the Alpha police unit along with the journalists knocked on his door and looked for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski so he could be taken to the Sutka penitentiary, and searched the trunks of cars that entered the headquarters of VMRO-DPMNE, Gruevski announced that he had left for Budapest, to his close friend Viktor …
The questions of ethnic and religious affiliation to be excluded from the census that should be conducted in April 2020, the State Statistical Office proposes. The definitive decision on this issue will have to be made with the Census Law expected no later than February next year. The purpose of the proposal is to avoid …
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Orce Kamcev, the businessman who was named by the renowned economic magazine Forbes as the richest Macedonian, bought a hospital, an agricultural plant, a dairy factory during VMRO-DPMNE’s rule, and now he probably ponders how to buy his own freedom in the investigative prison in Sutka. Kamcev’s attorney Antonio Apostolski appealed on Saturday to the …
The Skopje Criminal Court issued an order yesterday to arrest former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who did not hand himself to the authorities on Friday for serving his two-year prison sentence in the Sutka penitentiary. The court also asked to issue an arrest warrant for Gruevski, and the Ministry of Interior, as it is stated, …
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The Skopje based Criminal Court issued an order this afternoon to arrest former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who did not hand himself over to the authorities on Friday for serving his two-year prison sentence in the Sutka penitentiary. The court also asked to issue an arrest warrant for Gruevski, and the Ministry of Interior, as …
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Vice PM for European Affairs Bujar Osmani briefed Monday in Brussels the EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, about Macedonia’s progress in implementing the necessary reforms on the road to EU membership. ‘The (reform) plan 18 has already been adopted by the Government and its implementation, for now, is going smoothly. …
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Merkel’s announced departure from the leading position in her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), will inevitably bring changes in the perception of official Berlin towards the Western Balkans. Whether it will be a dramatic deviation or cautious distancing, we will have to wait for the December CDU Congress and the election of the new …
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VMRO-DPMNE will take part in the commission’s debate on the draft amendments on constitutional changes that begins today. The opposition believes that this way they will get another chance to expose the proposals of the government, which, as they say, are allowing other things that have not been discussed before to pass. Coordination meetings of …
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After the completion of the reform of the communications monitoring system, through the establishment of the Operational and Technical Agency, effective since November 1, three models for reforming the security-intelligence system in accordance with the recommendations of Reinhard Priebe are currently part of a wider expert debate. The Security and Counter-Intelligence Directorate and the Intelligence …
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EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn in the interview with Die Welt said that 2025 was a realistic date for EU accession of new members from the Western Balkans, but only if membership requirements were met prior to joining. “The date 2025 is indicative, but if the implementation of the reforms is intensified, it is rather realistic. …
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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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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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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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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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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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The “absolute veto” of the law on ratifying the Prespa agreement is probably the last “ammunition” that President Gjorge Ivanov used to obstruct the agreement between the governments of Macedonia and Greece, creating the ground for his political-legal “sendoff” for disrespecting The Constitution. After activating the process on constitutional changes, as the second stage after …
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The Government adopted the budget review on October 13. Expenditures and revenues decrease by 0.5 percent, the deficit is maintained at 2.7 percent, while economic growth is projected at 2.8 percent. Finance Minister Dragan Tevdovski said in the review elaboration that the adjustments have been made while taking into consideration political developments in the country, …
Today SDSM presented documents that, according to the party, indicate that VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski, while advising former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski from the government, received land of 33 thousand square meters for construction of a hydro power plant in the cadastral municipality of Pehcevo, and for that there was a decision published in the …
The budget rebalance will provide support for 51 percent of the reported, but unpaid liabilities of the municipalities. Three billion denars are projected for schools, kindergartens, cultural centers and other institutions that are under the jurisdiction of local self-governments, Finance Minister Dragan Tevdovski announced today. As Tevdovski pointed out at the press conference in the …
The excluded MPs from VMRO-DPMNE who voted for constitutional changes do not intend to return their terms, as the parent-party demands. They are having their last consultations, after which the official formation of a new parliamentary group is announced, which will act independently in the Parliament. For now, their group will have eight MPs, but …
