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The All For Fair Trials Coalition is starting a project, funded by the UK Embassy, to check the way in which the Judicial Council has carried out disciplinary proceedings. The goal is to determine whether changes should be made to the law or to practice. The project, which will last until March 2025, will cover 20 completed disciplinary proceedings against ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on 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 road conditions. ...

On Monday, PM Hristijan Mickoski once again said there was a possibility of destabilisation in the period ahead. “There are political structures and forces in the country that, to protect what has been stolen by them, will exploit and manipulate a certain of group of people in order for that group to cause an ethnic incident and in order for ...

On Monday, VMRO-DPMNE MP Mile Lefkov again said his party was urging Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska to explain why she had abused taxpayer money during her term as Culture Minister during a visit to London in October of last year. According to the ruling party, over a four-day period, she spent 714 pounds in taxpayer money on, inter alia, soccer balls, teddy ...

VLEN co-leader and Health Minister Arben Taravari doesn’t believe that the no-confidence motion against Parliament Speaker Afrim Gashi will prove successful. “Based on what I’ve been hearing, I don’t believe it will be adopted. The major coalition parties that are part of the government, part of the majority, will not vote it through. It will not be successful. However, there ...

On Monday, Judicial Council President Vesna Dameva said the commission looking into the ex-KLA Blerim Ramadani house escape case was doing intensive work. According to her, it is expected to present a report as soon as possible. Once the factual situation is determined, Dameva stressed, the matter will be immediately put on the agenda. Regarding last week’s meeting with Hristijan ...

Outgoing Bulgarian Ambassador Angel Angelov, whose term ends on Friday, hopes that his country will get a new government after the 27 October elections and that intensive dialogue between Skopje and Sofia will be able to be started after that. According to him, “intensive dialogue” should be used instead of the word “negotiations”. “We hope we will get a government ...

Regarding PM Hristijan Mickoski’s stand that it is logical for the formation of the new government to result also in a new composition of the North Macedonia-Bulgaria Joint Commission on Historical Affairs and that the body has failed to live up to expectations and to be a protector of the Macedonian people’s interests, Telma reported on Monday that members had ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on 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 road conditions. ...

“Democracy implies stable institutions. We’ll do everything to protect institutions,” PM Hristijan Mickoski said on Saturday, asked whether he still adhered to his stand that there were people working on destabilisation of the country. As he assessed, those who, during the term of the previous government, went from rags to riches and all those who would rage on the streets ...