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The working groups of the government and the opposition held another meeting at the Justice Ministry on Thursday in order to attempt to reach an agreement over the final version of the Laws concerning the status of the Special Public Prosecution (SPO). However, later in the night, from the Justice Ministry they confirmed that the meeting ended without any agreement ...

On Thursday, the Head of the EU Delegation to Macedonia, Samuel Zbogar, issued a statement on the amendment of the Law on Public Prosecution. “The EU follows closely the preparations to amend the law on public prosecution to incorporate the functions of the Special Prosecution Office (SPO) as a part of the Public Prosecution Office. We recall that the SPO ...

US President Donald Trump has started the procedure for ratification of Macedonia’s Accession Protocol. In a letter to Congress, he says: “I am providing the report on the Republic of North Macedonia’s Accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, prepared consistent with section 3(2)(E)(ii) of the Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification of the Protocols to the North Atlantic ...

A document recommending start of EU membership negotiations with Macedonia was adopted at the 16th meeting of the Mixed Parliamentary Committee of Macedonia and the EU. In the document, the Committee concludes that a significant progress was made in areas like rule of law, security and counter-intelligence services, public administration reforms and struggle against organised crime and corruption. The Deputy ...

On Thursday, PS Talat Xhaferi made an appeal for fair and regular elections to citizens, political parties and presidential candidates because that is in Macedonia’s interest and among the conditions for a date to start negotiations with the European Union. According to him, citizens should exercise right to vote and thus contribute to the initial regularity of the whole process. ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

The new round of negotiations on the part of the Public Prosecutor’s Office Draft Law concerning the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) will take place at the Justice Ministry on Thursday. VMRO-DPMNE said on Wednesday that its amendments were based on the three principles announced by it previously: implementation of international standards, protection of fundamental human rights, as well as independence, ...

The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) is opening cases and will be looking into the property situation of Supreme Court President Jovo Vangelovski and several judges, including Aleksandra Zafirovska, Vladimir Pancevski and Sofija Lalicic. On the basis of the Human Rights Report, the SCPC will check data from the asset declarations and statements of interests because of the ...

The Government said on Wednesday it fiercely condemned the nationalist provocations at the Athens and Thessaloniki military parades. Contrary to the spirit of the Prespa Agreement, Greek soldiers, with support from chants from the crowd, were performing the march “Famous Macedonia”. Simultaneously with such incidents, Athens and Skopje are continuing to work on the revision of textbooks in line with ...

Within the frameworks of the 94th session, Parliament adopted on Wednesday several laws that President Gjorge Ivanov had refused to sign and returned to MPs. Among them were those on the OTA and electronic communications. Deputy PS Goran Misovski said that in accordance with the information from Ivanov informing Parliament that he had decided against signing the decrees for several ...