“High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell hosted an informal lunch with Western Balkans leaders on Tuesday in New York, in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA),” the EU says. As it is pointed out in the press-release, these informal gatherings take place twice a year in Brussels and New ...
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Milevski Submits Resignation as Local Self-Government Minister
Goran Milevski submitted his resignation as Local Self-Government Minister on Tuesday, citing personal reasons. He confirmed that for MTV1 TV. Milevski will also resign as LDP leader. SDSM and Alternative are adamant that there will be no reshuffle. DUI shares the stand that there is no need for such change. On the other hand, VMRO-DPMNE’s stand remains unchanged, that is, ...
Read More »PM Kovacevski Continues Activities in New York
In the frames of his visit to New York, PM Dimitar Kovacevski delivered an address at the Transforming Education Summit. As he said, in times of a world economic and energy crisis, North Macedonia’s priority will be to heat classrooms and homes in the winter. According to Kovacevski, the energy crisis facing North Macedonia, Europe and the world represents a ...
Read More »Grubi on Developments Related to Votes Required for Constitutional Changes
According to Minister of Political System and Inter-Community Relations, Artan Grubi, who also serves as First Deputy PM, currently, 74 MPs are in favour of the constitutional changes. “We will manage to secure the votes also of another six MPs from the Macedonian opposition,” he says in an interview with TV21. As Grubi adds, the six will be found in ...
Read More »Levica: Skopje-Sofia Deal not to Be Directly Part of Referendum Question
The good-neighbourliness deal will not be directly part of the referendum initiative of Levica. However, the referendum question will concern the Bulgarian requirements, the leader of the party, Dimitar Apasiev told Sitel TV on Monday. According to him, the question, which the party should determine on Wednesday, will not be against EU membership of the country. The legal grounds for ...
Read More »VMRO-DPMNE Once Again Asks whether Kovacevski Avoided Military Service
At a press-conference on Monday, VMRO-DPMNE’s Dragan Kovacki presented a document that, according to the party, shows that PM Dimitar Kovacevski avoided military service by pretending, with a medical document, that he is unfit. “This is the document, an extract from the ARM’s records book, posted on social media. It is clearly seen from this document that Kovacevski was declared ...
Read More »Maricic Underlines Importance of Public Administration Reform
Chief Negotiator and Deputy PM Bojan Maricic said in his opening address in the frames of the explanatory screening for public administration reform that the focus in the period ahead would have to be on meeting the European requirements and standards regarding the forming and imposing the expertise of civil servants. According to him, the area will be important on ...
Read More »PM Kovacevski Starts Activities in New York
By participating in the opening of the Transforming Education Summit, PM Dimitar Kovacevski started the activities at the 77th UN General Assembly in New York. The opening was also attended by, among others, Education and Science Minister Jeton Shaqiri, the Ambassador to the UN, Ljubomir Frckoski, and Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani. Over 90 heads of state and government are participating ...
Read More »Mickoski Criticises Xhaferi over Rejection of Referendum Initiative
In an interview with Fokus, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski says regarding the Referendum Initiative rejection that Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi unlawfully played the role of a Constitutional Court judge. He adds that only the Constitutional Court can interpret the Constitution. In Mickoski’s view, the ruling structure is aware that there would be a turnout in a referendum because the people ...
Read More »COELA Activities in Skopje
We are happy to be with you at a new stage of your EU accession process. That was among the messages sent on Wednesday by Leos Javurek, who chairs the Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU (COELA), in his address before the National European Integration Council and European Affairs Committee in Parliament in Skopje, after ...
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