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Tuesday’s hearing over the Titanic 2 case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), was postponed for 3 December. The hearing was supposed to see material evidence presented. Judge Ognen Stavrev said the defence had three days to say whether it would propose some of the defendants as witnesses. Also, he stated that he had accepted Ljupka Gugucevska, Admir Shabani ...

Following the O2 Coalition for Clean Air’s reactions on Tuesday about environmental protection not being mentioned anywhere in the 2019 budget projections, PM Zoran Zaev said the same day money for that purpose had been projected. As he added, the final part of the funds to that end will be announced once the draft-budget is adopted at a Government session. ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on dry 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 ...

On Monday, police stormed former PM Nikola Gruevski’s home in Skopje but didn’t find him there. That was the second attempt, after they had previously knocked on the door but nobody answered. Several hours prior, a warrant had been issued to find the former VMRO-DPMNE leader after he had failed to voluntarily report to prison in order to start serving ...

The defence of businessperson Jordan Kamcev, who is detained within the frameworks of the Empire case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), will request for the decision on the detention order to be re-examined because it considers that he was detained by the SPO without a court warrant and taken to court while his companies were being searched. According ...

On Monday, the Deputy PM for European Affairs, Bujar Osmani, who is also the Chief Political Negotiator and Head of the Macedonian Delegation for Negotiations with the EU, started a working visit to Brussels. There, he held an informal briefing with Working Party on the Western Balkans Region (COWEB) representatives. At the meeting, he informed about the current situation in ...

The four draft amendments in the constitutional changes procedure passed the filters at both the Constitutional Issues and Legislative Committees. The debate at both bodies was simultaneous and lasted five days instead of the envisaged 12. Now, the draft amendments need to be determined at a plenary session, which will require a simple majority of 61 votes. The draft amendments ...

In an interview with the Kurir portal, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski levels fierce accusations against the SDSM-led government. “Macedonia is living its darkest moments,” he says. According to Mickoski, the economy is faced with a huge number of problems because of several reasons, including failure to open factories. “We’re only seeing a confrontation between oligarchs for finding room under the ...

The trial over the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament continued on Monday. Evidence materials from the expertise of the mobile phone taken away from defendant Oliver Popovski were reviewed. The video taken with the mobile phone shows the crowd starting to storm Parliament’s Press-Centre, where MPs and part of their security details are located. They’re using swear words and ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on dry 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 ...