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On Saturday, PM Hristijan Mickoski said SDSM was urging Pance Toskovski to resign as the Interior Minister because of the fact that everyone now was held liable before the laws. “I understand SDSM. I cannot justify them, but I do understand them. There is one simple reason for that. They are afraid of Toskovski because they’re seeing that there aren’t ...

On Friday, both PM Hristijan Mickoski and SDSM called on the Prosecutor’s Office to urgently open a case over the ex-KLA member Blerim Ramadani house arrest escape case. However, while Mickoski believes all doubts will be eliminated, Venko Filipce’s party is of the opinion that it will be proven it was organised with people from the Interior Ministry. The opposition ...

The Skopje Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office has appealed the verdict in the trial over the Laskarci crash, which happened on 13 February 2019 and in which 16 passengers were killed and more than 30 were severely injured. According to the Office, Durmo Tours owner Durmish Beluli, Remzi Miftari, head of the company’s fleet, as well as Igor Gjorgjievski and Goran ...

On Sunday, VMRO-DPMNE MP Mile Lefkov said his party was starting a series of press-conferences about, as he stressed, situations in which Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska, during her term as the Culture Minister, would throw taxpayer money around. Stressing that the case was dubbed “Bisera Antoinette” [a reference to Marie Antoinette], Lefkov pointed out that during an official visit to London in ...

During a visit to Stip, on Friday, Education and Science Minister Vesna Janevska used the country’s constitutional name. “Today, we had a truly productive and constructive meeting with the Mayor of Stip [Ivan Jordanov] and the Rector of Goce Delcev University [Dejan Mirakovski], at which we covered multiple aspects from all levels of education. It’s a great satisfaction that we’ve ...

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. ...

The Interior Ministry’s Department of Suppression of Organised and Serious Crime has submitted a notification to the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption over grounds of suspicions of criminal acts committed by official persons who made decisions on the issue of extradition of former KLA member Blerim Ramadani and acted on them. The Court, the ...

Commenting on SDSM’s latest allegations over the ex-KLA Blerim Ramadani case, PM Hristijan Mickoski has compared the party’s theses to intrigues defending Judge Pajazit Pajaziti, the one who made the decision changing the detention measure against Ramadani to a house arrest one. As he stressed on Thursday, if SDSM had evidence, it should make it public, without using a question ...

On Thursday, the Supreme Court made a decision regarding the ex-KLA member Blerim Ramadani extradition case, abolishing the Criminal Court’s ruling and ordering a repeat decision-making procedure and action. The Supreme Court said that the Criminal Council of the Criminal Court’s Department of Organised Crime and Corruption, while it had been making the decision determining that legal assumptions for extradition ...

“Consultations for multiple ambassadorial positions have begun, while we will inform about that in period ahead,” PM Hristijan Mickoski said on Thursday, asked whether consultations for a new Permanent Representative to the United Nations had begun following Ljubomir Frckoski’s resignation. Regarding the current diplomatic network of the country, the PM stated that there was a reason why Foreign Minister Timco Mucunski ...