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Justice Minister Krenar Lloga officially signed on Thursday the resolution which declares Bulgarian culture club Tsar Boris III as illegal due to the use of its name. This follows the decision of the Commission for Names of Institutions and Associations at the Justice Ministry to issue a negative opinion concerning the name of the club, which according to their conclusion ...

The supervision council of DUI is expected to start this weekend the process for exclusion from the party of the members of the so-called Fire Group, TV21 reported citing sourced from within the party. Namely the supervision council is set to notify party leader Ali Ahmeti about alleged violations of the party statute by the Fire Group members, which will ...

The decision of the Constitutional Court to abolish some articles from the Law on Payment of State Officials resulted with an average increase of 78% of the salaries of all state officials. For example, with these changes, the salary of the President of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, sour increase from April 2023 from 93,000 denars to 165,000 denars, the salaries ...

PM Dimitar Kovacevski is paying an official visit to Belgrade. Kovacevski arrived in Belgrade on Thursday evening, and he is to have meetings on Friday with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his Serbian Counterpart, PM Ana Brnabic. The meeting with Vucic is scheduled for 09:00 am at the General Secretariat Building in Belgrade. Kovacevski and Vucic already met in Ohrid ...

PM Dimitar Kovacevski spoke on the phone on Friday with Counsellor of the US Department of State Chollet Derek, upon Chollet’s request. The conversation was done in presence of US Ambassador Angela Aggeler and Deputy PM in charge of European Affairs Bojan Maricic. During the conversation, Chollet thanked Kovacevski for North Macedonia’s contribution to the process for normalisation of the ...

PM Dimitar Kovacevski and US Ambassador Angela Aggeler visited on Friday the University Clinic for Gastroenterohepatology in Skopje, where several departments were recently reconstructed and modernised thanks to a donation by the US worth around 400,000 euros. “Over the past decade the US have provided around 14 million dollars for reconstruction and modernisation of healthcare facilities in our country. This ...

Defence Minister Slavjanka Petrovska confirmed in an interview for TV show 360 Degrees at Alsat TV that the Defence Ministry of North Macedonia will donate 12 helicopters MI-24 to Ukraine. “All the equipment we have donated to the Ukrainian Army so far is upon their request for assistance, something they need in their current struggle against the Russian aggression, and ...

Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski informed in an interview for Radio Free Europe that a group of citizens are about to be filed criminal charges over sending false threats for planted bombs to several schools in Skopje. “We already filed criminal charges against one citizen under the age of 18 for whom we reveal that he sent one of these messages ...

Finance Minister Fatmir Besimi, Environment Minister Kaja Sukova and Deputy President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Lilyana Pavlova signed in Skopje the contract for a grant of 70 million euros from EIB for construction of a waste water treatment station in Skopje. The event was also attended by Deputy PM in charge of European Affairs Bojan Maricic, EU Ambassador ...

EU Ambassador to North Macedonia David Geer said on Wednesday that the EU accession processes must be done with consent from all political parties. “We maintain good contacts with parties both from the government and from the opposition that claim to be dedicated to the European future of this country, having in mind that the implementation of reforms depends upon ...