According to the Hungarian authorities, a possibility of former PM Nikola Gruevski being extradited doesn’t exist. As Justice Minister Laszlo Trocsanyi said an interview with ECHO TV on Tuesday, after the approval of the asylum request, Gruevski cannot be delivered to “a country in which he is a target of persecution.” The following day, in Macedonia, FM Nikola Dimitrov didn’t ...
Read More »Deskoska: Amnesty in VMRO-DPMNE’s Draft Law too Wide
Commenting on the Government’s negative opinion about the draft amnesty law filed by VMRO-DPMNE, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska stated on Wednesday that the amnesty covered in the document had been too wide. “So, the stand was that a potential amnesty and other issues of that type need to be resolved within the frameworks of the reconciliation body in Parliament,” the ...
Read More »Four Areas in Focus of Plan 18
The judicial system, security-intelligence services, public administration sector and fight against corruption are the areas on which the reforms contained in the Government’s Plan 18 for getting closer to the EU are focused. Plan 18 is continuation of the reforms implemented with Plan 3-6-9. At Tuesday’s briefing with journalists, ruling coalition members said they were waiting for remarks about the ...
Read More »Justice Minister Deskoska at Tirana Forum on Justice and Home Affairs
Macedonia will keep implementing the reforms, not only to meet the EU membership criteria but first and foremost for the benefit of its citizens, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska told Thursday the EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs in Tirana. The reforms are being implemented under the national judicial reform strategy 2018-2025, which should strengthen the independence and ...
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