Citing two individuals involved in Nikola Gruevski’s escape to Budapest, Brussels-based news agency “Politico Europe” reports that Hungarian intelligence services are involved in Gruevski’s escape from Macedonia to Hungary. From the Government of Hungary they still do not comment on these claims, while the country’s Foreign Minister previously confirmed that Hungarian diplomats accompanied the former Macedonian PM on his way ...

The PM Zoran Zaev denies the claims in certain media that he contacted former PM Nikola Gruevski moments before he escaped from Macedonia. “Ever since I became PM, I have not contacted Gruevski. The last contacts we had were before the events on 27 April 2017 in the Parliament took place, and we spoke about unblocking the political processes in ...

The European Commission (EC) shares the stand of the EU’s Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, that Hungary’s decision to grant asylum to former PM Nikola Gruevski warrants further explanations from the Hungarian authorities. Spokesperson Margaritis Schinas said on Thursday that there was no running away from the rule of law. As he added, the asylum ...

“The PM was very clear. Rotations are possible at a ministerial level, but the focus is on the policy that will ensure a better life for citizens,” Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska said on Thursday, commenting on the speculations of a crisis and division within the government following former PM Nikola Gruevski’s escape and of she succeeding Zoran Zaev as PM. ...

On Thursday, the Commission for Protection Against Discrimination complained of, as it said, attempts to pressure and discredit it. “Regarding some tendentious and false press-releases by certain associations of citizens, as well as statements by some individuals, which have appeared in some media regarding the Commission’s work, we have the duty to inform the public that they only represent yet ...

The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime (BPPOPCC) and Corruption has started a pre-investigative procedure over former PM Nikola Gruevski’s escape to Hungary. “There are grounded suspicions that certain official persons, abusing their official position and authority, enabled the convicted person to illegally leave the Republic of Macedonia,” it said on Wednesday. The case has been given ...

The US believes that former PM Nikola Gruevski should serve his jail term at home, POLITICO reported on Thursday. “After a thorough and transparent legal process, Nikola Gruevski was convicted by Macedonian courts of misuse of office and sentenced to two years in prison. Multiple courts upheld this conviction. In addition, Mr. Gruevski is indicted in four pending criminal cases,” ...