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Traffic on state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on mostly dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the ...

Former Oncology Clinic Director Nino Vasev, a nurse, and a caretaker were arrested on Tuesday morning at the Clinic, employees told Telma that day. Police were also trying to find Vasev’s secretary, but she wasn’t at work. According to Telma information, the Clinic’s former Economic Director, Nehat Nuhi, too, is a suspect. The Prosecutor’s Office said that four people suspected ...

The caretaker cabinet held on Tuesday its constitutive session. Government commissions were formed and Deputy PMs were appointed. According to the coalition deal, Bojan Maricic is the new First Deputy PM. Caretaker PM Talat Xhaferi expects transparency and commitment in the work of the caretaker cabinet. Also, he described the organisation of the election process as a key obligation. Caretaker ...

On Tuesday, caretaker PM Talat Xhaferi held a meeting with the EU Delegation’s Head, Ambassador David Geer. Congratulating Xhaferi on his election, Ambassador Geer highlighted the support from the EU and its Delegation in continuing cooperation and support for institutions with regards to North Macedonia’s EU agenda. According to Xhaferi, the fact that his first meeting with an international community ...

The ethnic Albanian opposition, that is, the European Alliance for Changes coalition, held a meeting with the new Speaker of Parliament, Jovan Mitreski. The coalition’s representatives asked for the process to elect a State Election Commission (SEC) member to be unblocked. After the meeting, Fadil Zendeli, MP representing BESA, which is part of the coalition, stated that if the Chair ...

On Tuesday, Alternative leader Afrim Gashi posted a photo of him, together with the two other leaders of the European Alliance for Changes coalition, BESA’s Bilall Kasami and Democratic Movement’s Izet Mexhiti, as well as with Alliance for Albanians leader Arben Taravari, meeting in Pristina with Kosovan PM Albin Kurti and Parliament Speaker Glauk Konjfuca. There aren’t details about what ...

According to VMRO-DPMNE’s MPs, though Ana Pavlovska Daneva has the required qualifications to become a Constitutional Court Judge and is a renowned attorney, they suspect she’s been nominated to discourage her from joining another camp due to the public criticism of the party. On the other hand, SDSM MP Dime Velkovski stated on Tuesday in Parliament that that criticism was ...

Traffic on state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on mostly dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the ...

On Monday, Gjoko Velkovski said on social media he had started his term as caretaker Labour and Social Policy Minister. “Three months to go until the big victory, which depends on all of us. Therefore, let us unite and defeat the irresponsible politicians that have created dreadfulness in our Macedonia,” he wrote, posting also a photo of him giving flowers ...

The Association of Journalists asked Parliament on Monday to explain the issue of the treatment of journalists. As it pointed out, based on journalists’ reports to the Association and on materials on the X portal, four foreign journalists were privileged at the expense of domestic ones because they were sat in the diplomatic part of the terrace in the plenary ...