North Macedonia’s delegation has continued its activities in New York. In a discussion with Columbia University students, PM Dimitar Kovacevski talked about Open Balkan, describing the initiative as organic and adding it was an economic alliance of North Macedonia, Serbia, and Albania, built on European principles. Also, he said he had always invited Kosovo because he had learned the conflict ...

The new faction for democratic revitalisation of VMRO-DPMNE, as it was reported, has demanded for Hristijan Mickoski to be replaced as party leader. One of the initiators is Oliver Andonov, a former Interior Minister, whose term lasted one day in one of the so-called Przino governments. As he said on Wednesday, that doesn’t mean there is a new wing within ...

Goran Milevski submitted his resignation as Local Self-Government Minister on Tuesday, citing personal reasons. He confirmed that for MTV1 TV. Milevski will also resign as LDP leader. SDSM and Alternative are adamant that there will be no reshuffle. DUI shares the stand that there is no need for such change. On the other hand, VMRO-DPMNE’s stand remains unchanged, that is, ...

The good-neighbourliness deal will not be directly part of the referendum initiative of Levica. However, the referendum question will concern the Bulgarian requirements, the leader of the party, Dimitar Apasiev told Sitel TV on Monday. According to him, the question, which the party should determine on Wednesday, will not be against EU membership of the country. The legal grounds for ...

In an interview with Fokus, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski says regarding the Referendum Initiative rejection that Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi unlawfully played the role of a Constitutional Court judge. He adds that only the Constitutional Court can interpret the Constitution. In Mickoski’s view, the ruling structure is aware that there would be a turnout in a referendum because the people ...

On Tuesday, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi rejected VMRO-DPMNE’s Referendum Initiative concerning the deal with Bulgaria. As he explains in the answer to the President of the opposition party, Hristijn Mickoski, that the Initiative is not in line with the Constitution, which says international deals that are ratified are part of the internal legal order and cannot be changed by law. ...

VMRO-DPMNE will not support a change of the Constitution, regardless of the referendum result, party leader Hristijan Mickoski said on Monday. He believes the referendum process will be successful. However, as the opposition leader stressed, regardless of the result, even if it fails, the party will not support a constitutional change under the current circumstances. Mickoski also answered a question ...

On Friday, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski urged PM Dimitar Kovacevski and President Stevo Pendarovski to support the process to organise the referendum initiated by his party. As he added, they shouldn’t obstruct it in Parliament through Speaker Talat Xhaferi and should instead allow 150,000 signatures to be collected in order for citizens to be able to freely express their stand. ...

Until the deal with Sofia is abandoned, VMRO-DPMNE will not support constitutional changes, opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski said at a press-conference on Tuesday. He is adamant that his party is not against Bulgarians being part of the Constitution. However, Mickoski described the deal as assimilatory, adding that it should be abandoned. The collection of signatures will start on Wednesday afternoon. ...

At a session on Monday, VMRO-DPMNE’s Executive Committee decided to adopt a referendum question. Citizens answering will say whether they are in favour of abandonment of the Law on Ratification of the Treaty on Friendship, Good-Neighbourliness, and Cooperation between Skopje and Sofia. At a press-conference, opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski said he supported EU integration, but he didn’t support assimilation and ...