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At the 104th session, held on Tuesday, the Government adopted a negative opinion about the draft amnesty law concerning people who are suspected, charged and convicted in the case concerning the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament, submitted by a group of MPs in Parliament. Also, a decision was made according to which the Justice Ministry will submit the draft ...

Poor driving conditions are reported throughout the country on wet roads. Drizzling rain is spread throughout the country. 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 ...

The Justice Ministry is working in an accelerated manner on completing the documentation for former PM Nikola Gruevski to be extradited from Hungary. “However, we cannot say when exactly it will be completed and sent to Budapest. We cannot provide more information about the situation because of the sensitivity of the materials. There are legal grounds for Macedonia to file ...

At the regional leader’s meeting in Vienna on Monday, organised by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the EU’s Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, said that countries from the Western Balkans (WB) had a European perspective, adding nonetheless that each would be evaluated separately on that path. Each country will be treated separately, according to its merits, ...

By mid-December, the Reconciliation Commission will need to propose a draft law concerning an amnesty in relation to the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament. The first draft version will be prepared at a meeting it will held by the end of the week. The idea, according to the independent parliamentary group of VMRO-DPMNE, upon whose demand the law is ...

MPs from VMRO-DPMNE and its coalition submitted on Monday Information about the Enormous Pollution of Ambient Air. Also, they will request for a public debate at the Transport, Communications and Environment Committee on the matter, where civil society organisations, experts, environmental associations and everyone else that can contribute so that the situation is prevented from deteriorating will be invited. “We ...

Within the frameworks of his visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, President Gjorge Ivanov met PM Omar Razzaz, Senate President Faisal al-Fayez, House of Representatives Speaker Atef Tarawneh and House of Representatives members. At the meeting with Razzaz, Ivanov said his country had aspired for stable and friendly relations with Jordan since as early as the establishment of diplomatic ...

The Criminal Court has forwarded the appeals over the detention measure for former officials Mile Janakieski and Kiril Bozinovski to the Court of Appeals in Skopje, which will review them at a public session once it gets the necessary opinion from the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO). If the measure in the Titanic case is confirmed, the SPO will be able ...

Poor driving conditions are reported throughout the country on wet 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 ...

According to PM Zoran Zaev, there are no dilemmas that former PM Nikola is in Budapest. “We expect him to be extradited so that he serves jail time here,” he said on Friday, publicly asking whether the former VMRO-DPMNE leader had voluntarily left Macedonia or had been kidnapped. The PM stated that he expected answers from both Gruevski and Hungary. ...