Zaev-Mitsotakis meeting: Greece supports North Macedonia’s European prospects


Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis endorsed North Macedonia’s EU accession prospects during his meetings with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and with the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, as part of the 4th Thessaloniki Summit, while he appeared ready to undertake appropriate initiatives in this direction. This is a turning point for Mr. Mitsotakis, who up …

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Pendarovski to meet Macron today


North Macedonia’s President Stevo Pendarovski who is paying a two-day visit to Paris, attended Monday evening a dinner for the heads of state and government organised by the French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of 2019 Paris Peace Forum. Today, the president will attend Paris Peace Forum and will deliver an address on regional security, his …

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New Zaev-Mitsotakis meeting, this time in Thessaloniki


Prime Ministers of North Macedonia and Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Zoran Zaev will have a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of “Thessaloniki Summit 209”, which will be held in Thessaloniki next Thursday and Friday, November 14 and 15. The meeting was officially announced by the Greek Prime Minister’s office. Mitsotakis will also use his participation …

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Pendarovski will meet Macron on Tuesday


North Macedonia’s President Stevo Pendarovski will meet French President Emmanuel Macron November 12, the President’s office confirmed Tuesday. President Pendarovski is set to visit France November 11-13 and address the 2019 Paris Peace Forum on November 12. The event brings together more than 30 heads of state and government. Pendarovski stressed that in the coming …

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Leaders’ meeting today at 5 pm


The leaders meeting to be hosted by President Stevo Pendarovski at 5 pm Sunday will focus on organizing the snap election announced after North Macedonia didn’t get a date to start EU talks. Attending the meeting will be SDSM president Zoran Zaev, VMRO-DPMNE president Hristijan Mickoski, DUI president Ali Ahmeti, Alliance for the Albanians president …

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(VIDEO) Zaev-Tsipras meeting at the PM’s Government office: Prespa changed the reality between the two countries


The Prespa Agreement deserves all the support from the two countries, concluded North Macedonia’s PM Zoran Zaev and Greece’s ex-premier Alexis Tsipras, who is in Skopje for Tuesday’s Western Balkans Summit, organized by The Economist. At a cordial meeting, the two officials discussed the benefits of the Prespa Agreement, the government said on Monday. “The …

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Miloshoski: We expect SDSM to stop delaying and buying time for the PPO law


There may be a new meeting over the Law on the Public Prosecutor’s Office on Saturrday, said VMRO-DPMNE MP Antonio Miloshoski. “We were expecting a meeting yesterday, we were prepared for it today. We have been now told that a meeting is possible tomorrow. We are fine with this,” said MP Miloshoski. Regarding the opposition’s expectations, …

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Sekerinska to take part in NATO Ministers of Defence meeting in Brussels


Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska is taking part Wednesday and Thursday in the meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence in Brussels. Ministers will discuss defence expenditures of NATO countries. Each country has a target of 2 percent of GDP on defence by 2024 to contribute to the Alliance’s operations. According figures for 2019 defence spending, more …

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Speaker Xhaferi to visit President Pendarovski at Villa Vodno


North Macedonia’s newly elected President Stevo Pendarovski will meet with Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi today. The meeting will be held at Villa Vodno, as the President’s Office reported. This is the first official meeting between President Pendarovski and Parliament Speaker Xhaferi after the Pendarovski’s inauguration. President Pendarovski held an official meeting with PM Zaev at …

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President Pendarovski meets Prince Edward: Congratulations on your election


Today, President Stevo Pendarovski met with Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, who is paying an official visit to North Macedonia. President Pendarovski said Prince Edward’s visit reconfirms the strong ties between North Macedonia and the United Kingdom, the President’s Office said in a press release. President Pendarovski thanked for the comprehensive British support to North …

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VMRO-DPMNE to hold emergency meeting after the delay in SDSM


The leadership of VMRO-DPMNE called for an emergency session of the Executive Committee, and later of the Central Committee. The two top party bodies will discuss the current political situation, the presidential election, and the party’s request for early general elections. Such meetings are coming after SDSM’s decision to postpone its final position regarding the …

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Parliament’s reconciliation body set to hold first meeeting on Wednesday


The Parliament’s coordinating body for reconciliation and integration is set to hold its first meeting on Wednesday. Independent group of VMRO-DPMNE MPs have said the meeting will discuss the content of a law on reconciliation over April 27 events in the Parliament. The coordinating body, chaired by Parliament Vice Speaker Frosina Tasevska-Remenski and Emilija Aleksandrova …

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Macedonian-Bulgarian Joint Multidisciplinary Commission to hold its second meeting


The second meeting of the Joint Multidisciplinary Commission of Experts on Historical and Educational Issues, established in accordance with Treaty of Friendship, Good-Neighborliness and Cooperation signed between Macedonia and Bulgaria, will be held on October 4-5 in Skopje. The expert commission is expected to exchange views related to curriculum in the education processes in the …

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Dutch Foreign Minister Blok to visit Macedonia on Wednesday


Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok is arriving to Macedonia Wednesday for talks with Macedonia’s officials. Blok is set to meet his counterpart Nikola Dimitrov to discuss the current political developments in Macedonia, preparations for the upcoming referendum and the pace of necessary reforms related to the EU, NATO membership, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said …

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Zaev-Tsipras meeting in London


Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras will meet in London, according to IBNA and Nezavisen Vesnik, on the sidelines of the Western Balkans Summit that the United Kingdom will host on July 10, 2018. The two Prime Ministers will discuss developments after the signing of the Prespa Agreement, co-ordinate their actions for the successful conclusion of …

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Zaev to meet Tusk in Brussels on Thursday


Prime Minister Zoran Zaev is set to meet with European Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels at 2 p.m. on Thursday. The meeting will take place before the start of the European Council. PM Zaev will take part June 28-29 at the Crans Montana Forum, addressing panel “South-Eastern Europe and the EU Accession”.

Greece: PM Tsipras fails to secure name issue support from the opposition


The leader of the largest political party in Greece, New Democracy, after a meeting with the Greek PM on Saturday rejected any possibility of providing support to the current administration to muster a wide national consensus over the name issue. Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis after meeting PM Alexis Tsipras lambasted the way in which the …

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Greece: Mini-ministerial fails to solve government coalition rift over name issue


‘A mini-ministerial meeting’, convened by Premier Alexis Tsipras in Athens, has ended after little over two hours with ministers Nikos Kotzias and Panos Kammenos retaining their well-known, firm positions, MIA reports from the Greek capital. Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias left the meeting to speak with members of the media giving optimistic statements. He said that …

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Innocent people detained for loving their country, VMRO-DPMNE Gruevski tells Hungarian FM


Fundamental human rights are undermined in Macedonia as VMRO-DPMNE members and prominent public figures, who fail to share the government’s opinion, have been a target of political persecution, outgoing party’s leader Nikola Gruevski said late Monday at a meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó. Innocent people are in detention only because they are open-minded, …

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