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The Vice-PM for European Affairs Bujar Osmani met Thursday in Athens the Greek Alternative Foreign Minister Georgios Katrougalos. At the meeting the interlocutors spoke about the opportunities for cooperation between the two countries in both political and economic field. “There are numerous ongoing projects connected to the trust-building measures, with ultimate goal to improve the communication and good relations between ...

The Criminal Court, by request of the Special Public Prosecution (SPO) in relation to the “Thaler” case, froze assets of VMRO-DPMNE.  This was revealed by SPO via their official profile on Facebook. The assets include 69 real estates owned by the party, including the Skopje-based building where their main headquarters are located. The total value of the real estates is ...

The Deputy Chief of Mission of the US in Athens Kate Marie Byrnes is to replace Jess Baily on the position of US Ambassador to Macedonia by the end of 2018, daily newspaper Vecer reports. Citing sources from within the US Embassy in Skopje, Vecer reports that Baily’s mandate as ambassador is to run out by the end of 2018. ...

The PM Zoran Zaev held a new meeting with the new MP group in the Parliament in order to finish up the consultations concerning the draft-amendments for constitutional changes, prescribed by the Prespa Agreement. “We finalised certain solutions on today’s meeting. We shall review the text in the government, then forward it to the MP group, and once they approve ...

The President of the Criminal Court in Skopje Ivan Dzolev informed on Wednesday that the court has officially received the request of former PM Nikola Gruevski for postponing of his prison sentence. Gruevski was given a prison sentence of 2 years after he was found guilty in the “Tank” case which focused on an illegal procurement of an official vehicle ...

“The process to draw up the constitutional amendments is underway,” Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska said on Wednesday. According to her, talking about what they will contain would mean speculating. As Sekerinska added, though there are different opinions and proposalsm if the proposal had been presented right away, it would have been very hard to secure a two-thirds majority without previous ...

At its session late on Wednesday night, VMRO-DPMNE’s Executive Committee decided that the party will have one instead of 10 parliamentary groups, several media have reported. MP Nikola Micovski will be the new coordinator. He will succeed Dragan Danev, who has resigned. Details of the meeting have been announced for Thursday. According to the Parliament’s Rules of Procedure, Hristijan Mickoski’s ...

After the management of the Union of Women of VMRO-DPMNE resigned their positions in the party, the same move was made by the management of the Union of Youth Forces of VMRO-DPMNE. The President of the Youth Union Luka Krzalovski announced his resignation via his Facebook profile. “We can see that the relations with international factors, which are crucial for ...

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in an interview for the Russian public broadcaster, accused the government of the United States that via their Ambassador Jess Baily influenced the decision of the MPs in the Macedonian Parliament concerning the Prespa Agreement. “Many high-profile politicians and diplomats visited Macedonia prior the referendum and the parliament session on the Prespa Agreement in ...

 The leader of Single Macedonia Janko Bacev held a press conference on Wednesday concerning his arrest the day before. Bacev evaluated his arrest as mere political pressure by his opponents in the government. “I was arrested because a Facebook status of the party’s official profile allegedly contained threats over the lives of the 8 MPs from VMRO-DPMNE that supported the ...