On Tuesday, Parliament voted through the no-confidence motions against Judicial Council members Vesna Dameva, Selim Ademi, Tanja Cacarova-Ilievska, Milazim Mustafa, and Pavlina Crvenkovska. According to the conclusions, adopted individually, the five members significantly contributed to the endangerment of the judiciary’s professionalism, independence, and reputation, in addition to contributing to the drop of citizen confidence in the sector. As a result ...

An hour before the start of Parliament’s session over the no-confidence motions against five of its members, Vesna Dameva, Selim Ademi, Tanja Cacarova-Ilievska, Milazim Mustafa, and Pavlina Crvenkovska, the Judicial Council held a session itself. It saw several decisions made, including one to elect a new Secretary of the body, as well as a presentation of reports on work of ...

Documentation, five mobile phones, around 1,500 pieces of ammo of different calibre, two guns, and three passenger motor vehicles have been seized in the operation related to suspicious procurement of derivatives. 11 persons, including the owners of RKM’s and Pucko Petrol, Ratko Kapusevski and Asmir Jahoski, respectively, have been detained. Ex-ESM head Vasko Kovacevski, who’s at large and a suspect ...

Commenting on the Mazut case, VLEN has said all roads of the current leadership of DUI led to ex-PM Nikola Gruevski and former secret police chief Saso Mijalkov. “Ratko Kapusevski, the former staff of Gruevski for Director of the Boris Trajkovski Sports Centre, as a player of Sergey Samsonenko and Mijalkov, became a player on the oil business and palled ...

At Tuesday’s event in Skopje honouring the 7,144 Macedonian Jews who perished in Nazi death camps, the head of the Jewish Community in North Macedonia, Pepo Levi, said Adolf Hitler had solved the Jewish question in Macedonia on 11 March 1943 through his fascist satellites from Bulgaria. “98% of the Jewish population in Macedonia would never again see the Macedonian ...

At Monday’s presentation, in Parliament, of Poland’s EU Presidency’s priorities before members of the European Affairs Committee and National European Integration Council, Polish Ambassador Mariusz Brymora stated that the enlargement policy remained at the centre of attention. As he pointed out, integration of countries from the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe will contribute to the continent’s security. Establishing lasting peace ...

VMRO-DPMNE has continued its criticism of ex-President Stevo Pendarovski’s comments during the 8 March interview with Sitel. On Monday, it said he and SDSM were bringing down national positions and couldn’t come to terms with the fact that the new cabinet was building strong relations with the US. On the other hand, SDSM said Pendarovski was а former President and ...

Judge Xhemali Saiti will as of 13 March be the Acting President of the Supreme Court. The decision was made at Monday’s session of the Judicial Council. The procedure to elect the new, full-time, head of the institution is at the final stage. They are expected to be elected at some of the future sessions. The two candidates in the ...

RKM’s owner, businessperson Ratko Kapusevski (former head of the Boris Trajkovski sports centre), and Pucko Petrol owner Asmir Jahoski, have been arrested in an investigation concerning mazut for the Negotino thermal power plant. According to unofficial information, Kapusevski was detained in his home, where police are still conducting a search, MTV1 said in an 8:45 pm report on Monday. Police ...

On Monday, SDSM said Mateo Design, a company headed by Martin Klincarov, who was married to Digital Transformation Ministry State Secretary Gordana Klincarova, had won tenders worth around 50,000 euros from the same institution. It presented two signed contracts. “The scandal is an example of direct conflict of interest, nepotism, and reasonable doubt over corruption within the Ministry headed by ...