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In an interview with MIA, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski says that the government doesn’t want the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) law to be adopted and that SDSM wants to halt the entire process because Zoran Zaev’s party wants to implement legal violence in the confrontation with the people not sharing its political views. According to him, since the failed leaders’ ...

Electing a chief of any public prosecutor’s office nominated by political parties, including the opposition, is a solution that opens a door to politicize the public prosecutor’s system, the members of the Council in charge of implementation of the Judicial Reform Strategy, after the 13th session, held on Friday. As it was said in the press-release, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska ...

PS Talat Xhaferi has returned, in writing, VMRO-DPMNE’s proposal for a Committee of Inquiry to look into the work of the Special Prosecutor’s Office for further work. As he explained on Friday, the proposal didn’t contain the country’s constitutional name. The opposition party now has 15 days to remove the shortcomings identified by the PS. Reacting to Xhaferi’s decision, VMRO-DPMNE ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists are ...

The Deputy PM for European Affairs Bujar Osmani held a meeting on Thursday with German Minister for Europe Michael Roth. Osmani said he’d received confirmation from Roth that the German Government would support a date for negotiations for Macedonia and that it would firmly defend that stand during the decision-making process within the frameworks of the Bundestag. “I’ve received confirmation ...

In front of the Bulgarian Commission in charge of solving the historical issues with Macedonia, Bulgaria’s President, Rumen Radev, said that his country couldn’t be an unreserved supporter of Skopje’s Euro-integration processes if the Commission wasn’t sure that all disputed issues would be resolved by the day the EU should voice a stand on potentially giving a membership negotiations. “The ...

The US Special Representative for the Western Balkans, Matthew Palmer, expects Macedonia to start negotiations with the EU in October. As he says in an interview with Voice of America (VOA), his country is very hopeful that the country will get the opening of the negotiations following the European Council meeting in mid-October. “We believe that the government in North ...

The state leadership is starting a fight against fake news as a big threat to security and democracy in modern society. “Propaganda and disinformation have the potential to promote violence and hate speech and to reduce trust in democratic values,” PM Zoran Zaev said at the constitutive meeting of the Action Group that will coordinate institutions in the fight. “In ...

Judge Daniela Aleksova Stojanovska postponed on Thursday the trial over the Thaler 2 case, which concerns the construction of VMRO-DPMNE’s HQ in the centre of Skopje, for 15 October. The reason was further organising the defendants’ powers of attorney. Previously, the lawyers of defendants Nikola Gruevski, former PM, and Kiril Bozinovski, ex-Government Sec Gen, had requested for postponement. Among the ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists are ...