The trial over the murder of Denis Tot continued on Monday. The Croatian handball player suffered a lot of injuries, it was said. Doctors from the Forensic Medicine Institute testified. The Institute’s Director, Aleksandar Stankov, concluded that the neck injuries, where the medulla spinalis begins, had been fatal for Tot. If that injury had not occurred, he might have survived, ...
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PM Kovacevski Addresses UN General Assembly
There is no alternative to a better life than EU membership. That was the message sent by PM Dimitar Kovacevski in his address to the UN General Assembly. As he added, North Macedonia has waited for too long, but it remains committed to achieving the strategic goal. Regarding the Ukraine situation, Kovacevski condemned the Russian aggression. In the context of ...
Read More »Levica to Start Collection of Signatures for Referendum Initiative Next Week
Next week, Levica will start to collect the 100 signatures for the referendum initiative. The referendum question is: “Are you in favour of continuing the EU negotiations, with acceptance of Parliament’s conclusions?” That, according to the party, makes it basically impossible for the initiative to be rejected from a formally-legal standpoint because it concerns an act of Parliament, not an ...
Read More »Prominent DUI Members Criticise Grubi and Urge Ahmeti to Use Authorisations
Over the past two years, party organs haven’t been active, decision-making has become individual ownership, we are no longer a well-organised and structured party. This, inter alia, is written by tens of prominent DUI members, former and current officials, in the letter to party leader Ali Ahmeti. The letter, in Albanian is posted also on Cair Mayor Visar Ganiu’s Facebook ...
Read More »North Macedonia’s Delegation’s Activities in New York Continue
North Macedonia’s delegation has continued its activities in New York. In a discussion with Columbia University students, PM Dimitar Kovacevski talked about Open Balkan, describing the initiative as organic and adding it was an economic alliance of North Macedonia, Serbia, and Albania, built on European principles. Also, he said he had always invited Kosovo because he had learned the conflict ...
Read More »Pendarovski Comments on Latest Developments over Ukraine
According to President Stevo Pendarovski, Vladimir Putin’s call for additional mobilisation in Russia can deteriorate the situation in Ukraine, but also in the whole world. In an interview with Klan Makedonija TV, he stated that the course of events couldn’t be predicted. However, the President stated that if the Russian President used nuclear weapons, that would be “horror for the ...
Read More »Deputy PM Maricic: Frontex Deal to Be Signed in October
Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic, in the frames of the explanatory screening for Chapter 24, Justice, announced before European Commission representatives the signing of the Frontex deal. As he said, the document will be signed in the Macedonian language, in October. The Chief Negotiator added in the opening address that the areas of justice, freedom, and security was ...
Read More »Apasiev Says How Levica will Formulate Referendum Question
“Are you in favour of continuing the EU negotiations, with acceptance of Parliament’s conclusions?” Levica thinks that that makes it basically impossible to reject the initiative from a formal-legal standpoint. That was stated by the party’s President, Dimitar Apasiev, in an interview with Kanal 5 TV on Wednesday. According to him, Levica, unlike VMRO-DPMNE, will not “attack” the Conclusions, not ...
Read More »Andonov with Initiative for Replacement of Mickoski as VMRO-DPMNE Leader
The new faction for democratic revitalisation of VMRO-DPMNE, as it was reported, has demanded for Hristijan Mickoski to be replaced as party leader. One of the initiators is Oliver Andonov, a former Interior Minister, whose term lasted one day in one of the so-called Przino governments. As he said on Wednesday, that doesn’t mean there is a new wing within ...
Read More »Mickoski Comments on Initiative and Kovacevski Issues
On Wednesday, asked about what his party would do after the rejected referendum initiative, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said his party would continue to be bringing down the Government until early elections were held. Asked whether VMRO-DPMNE would support Levica’s initiative, he stated that the “game of submitting initiatives can be played endlessly”. However, Mickoski added that Parliament Speaker Talat ...
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