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Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic met on Wednesday Ambassador of Luxembourg to North Macedonia, resident in Belgrade, Philippe Donckel.  “Mister Donckel is very well familiar with the geo-political situations in the Western Balkans, and a great friend of our country, and believes that the start of the EU accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania would strengthen the ...

The Finance Police Department has filed to the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime and Corruption (BPPOOCC) criminal charges against former President of the State Electoral Commission (SEC) Oliver Derkovski and three members of the public procurements commission at SEC. According to the charges, the suspects have abused their official position in 2019, by conducting a public procurement for ...

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski held on Tuesday a briefing with Ambassadors of EU member-states in North Macedonia, including the Deputy Head of the EU Delegation in Skopje Julian Vassallo. Kovacevski spoke about the most important issues concerning the EU integration of North Macedonia, in context of the security crisis in Ukraine and its effects over the rest of Europe. “We ...

The Government of North Macedonia adopted at a session held on Tuesday the annual plan for conclusion of contracts for public procurements in the field of defence and security with governments of foreign countries for 2022. The plan contains 8 projects that will be realised through conclusion of contracts with NATO members states for procurement of military equipment. “In accordance ...

Judge Osman Shabani announced on Tuesday at the Criminal Court in Skopje the verdict the court reached over the Toplik case. In the verdict, the court found former Transport and Communications Minister Mile Janakieski guilty for abuse of official position for activities around the Sun City project for construction of housing complex in the Municipality of Sopiste, and for that ...

Director of the State Statistical Office (SSO) Apostol Simovski said in an interview for news agency Makfax that the citizens have been facing pressures to not accept the 2021 Population Census in the past three years. “Many political centres came out with campaigns against the Census and calls for its boycott. Unfortunately, many citizens heeded that call, because of which ...

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski said on Monday that the government is taking all measures necessary to handle the case revealed by Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani, that certain employees and officials from some of the institutions of the state contacted Bulgarian institutions in order to convince them to halt the negotiations with North Macedonia over their bilateral disputes. “We are ...

The Macedonian-Bulgarian Inter-governmental Group on European Cooperation – Green transition, digital transformation and rule of law held a meeting on Monday in Skopje. Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic, who functions as co-president of this working group, opened the meeting, pointing out that they have already established a solid base for discussions over EU integration, green policies and good ...

Head of the Bulgarian Team in the Macedonian-Bulgarian Committee on historical Affairs Angel Dimitrov said on Monday that there is no significant progress in the work of the Committee. His statement is quite different from the one of Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov from few days ago when he spoke of great progress in the work of this Committee. “Our ...

The Euro-Atlantic Council of North Macedonia organised a tribune on Monday, observing the day of NATO (4 April). The tribune featured as speakers Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski, US Ambassador Kate Marie Byrnes, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy Carmen Romero, Defence Minister Slavjanka Petrovska and other officials and politicians. “Since 27 March 2020, our country has become the ...