Friday, April 26, 2024
EU Ambassadors held talks to break the deadlock on Friday but did not manage to convince Bulgaria to move, triggering growing frustration among EU diplomats, who say it’s holding up an important EU agenda with an entirely domestic problem that would be best solved bilaterally with North Macedonia, Politico...
The country is on the right track and should continue with implementation of the already enacted laws and mechanisms, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Wednesday at the joint press conference with European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, who is paying a visit to Skopje. Zaev pointed out that...
VMRO-DPMNE is considering withdrawing amendments to the Citizenship Law, expecting the Alliance for Albanians and Alternative to unblock the fifth set of economic measures. The decision on these laws in that case would completely depend on SDSM and other parliamentary parties, briefed VMRO-DPMNE. This was already announced by the leader...
The leader of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski confirmed that he will not attend Mondays’s Ilinden celebration at Mechkin Kamen in Krusevo. He announced that he will traditionally attend an event in Tashmarunishta, near Struga. He called the new concept of Ilinden celebration initiated by President Stevo Pendarovski an improvised...
Greek hackers attacked the Finance Ministry and the Economy Ministry on Sunday (May 10th). A list of emails and passwords of employees of these two Ministries has been published on Twitter. Behind the hacker attack is the group "Powerful Greek Army". The website of the Institute for Sociological and Political Legal Research...
A majority of the 157 passengers who arrived on Saturday at Turku airport in Finland after boarding a plane in Skopje are nationals of Kosovo and Finland and only two are Macedonian nationals, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. Earlier, it was reported that 24 of the 157 passengers tested...
July 15th is the last concession made by SDSM, party leader Zoran Zaev said on Monday, and the postponed April early parliamentary elections would be held on this new date, with the consent of VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski to confirm this date which the two had previously agreed in...
The current Deputy Prime Minister for Combating Corruption Ljupcho Nikolovski has been persistently silent for more than two weeks about the smuggled tobacco at the Deve Bair border crossing. One hundred tons of tobacco or five trucks entered Macedonia at the Deve Bair border crossing, through the company Studenac...
Macedonia is seeking redirection of IPA funds to tackle the crisis stemming from the coronavirus outbreak, Nikola Dimitrov said at Saturday’s press conference. Speaking at a news conference Saturday, the Foreign Minister said that a letter had been sent a couple a days ago to the EU enlargement commissioner, Olivér...
The head of the ruling Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), Ali Ahmeti, is in self-isolation at his home in the village of Zajas. Ahmeti's self-isolation photo was posted on Facebook by his brother, Shakri Ahmeti. “Stay at home! And follow the recommendations of the authorities. Let's overcome this pandemic easily," said...