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Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski attended and addressed the solemn academy that observed the Day of Albanian Alphabet, i.e. 114 years since the 1908 Bitola Congress at which the Albanian alphabet has been adopted. “The act of respect towards other languages and cultures is a characteristic of a European, civilised and progressive way of functioning. Albanian is not my mother tongue, ...

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski stated on Monday that the ruling majority is indeed in talks with the Alliance for Albanians (AA) for them to become part of the government. “If our talks with AA continue in good will and favourable direction, enlargement of the ruling majority is quite probable. Back on Friday, I indeed spoke to AA Leader Arben Taravari ...

Skopje Mayor Danela Arsovska informed at a press conference that members of the city council from VMRO-DPMNE are blocking and obstructing the adoption of the rebalance of the budget of the City of Skopje. “Thanks to this blockade, we will not be able to realise a single project, and ultimately, we will not be able to pay to the citizens ...

A poll conducted by the news web portal MKD.mk reveals that almost 60% of the citizens believe that the country does not move in a positive direction, and 61.2% of them locate the responsibility for this within the government and the parties of the ruling majority. More than 67% believe that the government’s work is unsuccessful, and 76% think the ...

“The fight against this social evil – corruption, requires engagement at all levels in society, therefore it is extremely important that all relevant institutions take actions within their competence and increase their alertness. Only joint struggle and coordination can give concrete results,” stressed the President of the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, Biljana Ivanovska, at the ceremony on ...

530 million euros should be provided with the credit line for prudence and liquidity from the IMF to support the state budget. The Parliament adopted the laws for the borrowing of the country from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with a credit line for prudence and liquidity and for borrowing with a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and ...

The two-day ministerial conference on sustainable management of migrations in the Western Balkans, co-organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) began, attended by ministers of interior affairs from the region. The Minister of Internal Affairs of the RNM, Oliver Spasovski, the Permanent Coordinator of the UN in North Macedonia, Rossana ...

The President of the Commission for European Affairs of the Parliament of the Republic of North Macedonia, Arber Ademi, in Prague gave a speech dedicated to the European perspective of the Western Balkans and the countries of the Eastern Partnership, within the second day of the Conference of Commissions for European Affairs – COSAC. Ademi emphasized the importance of the ...

President Stevo Pendarovski received the President and Secretary General of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Margareta Cederfelt and Roberto Montella. The meeting discussed the upcoming chairmanship of the Republic of North Macedonia with the OSCE in 2023, the current situation in the organization in terms of security developments in Europe, as well as the cooperation so far and the possibilities for ...

“Most of the laws that will be harmonized with European law will be implemented by local governments. With the process of accession and harmonization of laws with European law, the implementation will fall to the local authorities and therefore it is necessary for the citizens to familiarize themselves with that process,” was conveyed by the European ambassador David Geer, who ...