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PM Zoran Zaev isn’t discouraged by French President Emmanuel Macron’s stands on enlargement. He is optimistic that Macedonia still has the chance for the European perspective with the new composition of the EU institutions, too. “It’s about Member States that are friends of the country,” he said on Wednesday. According to the PM, Macedonia has delivered in the field of ...

Greece will try to improve the issues of languages, nationality, citizenship that were closed by the Prespa Agreement to its benefit. This was announced by New Democracy MP Nikos Dendias, whose name is being mentioned as a potential future FM, in an interview with a Greek TV station. According to him, what will be demanded is not a revision of ...

The abuse of office criminal charge against former Culture Minister Elizabeta Kanceska Milevska, the former Deputy Minister and the Manager at the Ministry has been rejected by the Prosecutor’s Office. As it was said on Wednesday, a relevant public prosecutor from the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje has rejected the charge against three persons about unscrupulous operation within the ...

PM Zoran Zaev will not ask Dragi Raskovski to resign as Government Sec Gen because he doesn’t consider that his behaviour at Tuesday’s press-conference was arrogant. According to Zaev, Raskovski apologised, while media cannot tear anybody apart. The Government will not sue any media, while persons, if they feel offended, can file lawsuits. Regarding the words Raskovski used in the ...

“As the next, 30th, member of the Alliance, we’re serious about being a dignified member,” PM Zoran Zaev said in his address at Wednesday’s presentation of “Digitisation of the crisis management system”, organsied by the Crisis Management Centre and NATO. According to Zaev, Macedonia hopes to formally and fully become a member of the Alliance by the end of the ...

Good driving conditions on mainly dry roads. Intensity of traffic outside urban areas increased. No long delays on border-crossings for exiting the country. From 25 June the road in Dracevo by the railway near village of Lisice will be closed for one week due to laying a new layer of asphalt. Regional road Caska-Goloznici will be temporarily closed due to ...

  At Tuesday’s hearing over the Lawn case, the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), in its closing arguments, urged the Court to find journalist Dragan Pavlovic Latas and his brother guilty of illicit construction of houses in Zelenikovo. Also, it asked the institution to take away their houses. As the SPO added, the issue debated in the case is when the ...

On Tuesday, Education and Science Minister Arber Ademi held a working meeting with the EU Ambassador to Macedonia, Samuel Zbogar. At the meeting, Ademi informed Zbogar about several issues, including the changes to the Primary Education Law and about the process to bring the Macedonian education system closer to the EU’s. Zbogar said the Union supported the Government’s reform processes ...

On Tuesday, Antonio Missiroli, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, held a meeting in Skopje with President Stevo Pendarovski. They talked about the successful cooperation between NATO and Macedonia, about current joint projects and about progress in defence and security reforms. As Pendarovski pointed out, Macedonia’s full-fledged NATO membership will represent achievement of one of the country’s strategic ...

Good driving conditions on mainly dry roads. Intensity of traffic outside urban areas increased. No long delays on border-crossings for exiting the country. From 25 June the road in Dracevo by the railway near village of Lisice will be closed for one week due to laying a new layer of asphalt. Regional road Caska-Goloznici will be temporarily closed due to ...