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Bulgaria is the first country that approved the Protocol for accession of Macedonia in NATO. Citing sources from within the Bulgarian government, several Bulgarian media report that the council of ministers of the Bulgarian government has notified the Bulgarian Ambassador to NATO to sign the Protocol, which will later be delivered to the parliaments of all NATO member-states for ratification. ...

The Macedonia PM Zoran Zaev paid on Wednesday an official visit to Austria, where he met the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. As the Macedonian government reports via a press release, Zaev and Kurz spoke about the recent political events in Macedonia, with Kurz congratulating Zaev on the adoption of the Prespa Agreement. “After 27 years of independence, the Republic of ...

The French President Emanuel Macron said Wednesday that the Prespa Agreement is a very good example for a model for resolution of bilateral issues. “This agreement gives us all hope that the dialogue can indeed result with mutually acceptable solutions. I welcome the efforts and the courage of PMs Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev, who reached an agreement over the ...

The central presidency of DUI decided at the Wednesday meeting that they will run on the upcoming presidential election with their own candidate. The information was confirmed by DUI’s spokesperson Bujar Osmani right after the meeting. “This is our priority option for the upcoming presidential election. The members of the presidency also decided to notify our leader Ali Ahmet that ...

The Supreme Court of Macedonia adopted at its latest session a legal opinion that the Special Public Prosecution (SPO) cannot file bills of indictment or halt an investigative procedure later than 18 months after they officially took over the recordings of the wire-tapped phone conversations by the then opposition party SDSM. “According to the Article 2 of the Law on ...

The Parliament adopted Wednesday the changes to the Law on MPs, which result in stripping former PM Nikola Gruievski of his salary as an MP. The changes read that if a Member of Parliament is sentenced to a prison sentence exceeding six months, he/she loses the right to a salary and other fees. Gruevski was recently sentenced to two years ...

Poor driving conditions are reported throughout the country on wet roads, with mud and snow in the roadside. Light snowing is present around the mountainous area Bukovo. Lowered visibility because of fog is present around the roadways Bitola-Prilep, Bitola-Demir Hisar, Bitola-border crossing Medzitlija, Kumanovo-Sveti Nikola, Veles-Gradsko and Berovo-Vinica. Because of the low temperatures and humidity, some roads might be iced ...

The PM Zoran Zaev met on Tuesday in the government the Director of EU’s Directorate for Enlargement and Foreign Policy Christian Danielsson. At the meeting, Zaev and Danielsson spoke about the ongoing political events in Macedonia, like the adoption of the Prespa Agreement and the integration of Macedonia in NATO and EU. “2018 was a crucial year for Macedonia; we ...

The Government of Macedonia adopted on its 117th session on Tuesday evening the information for implementation of the Prespa Agreement. The plan for the implementation of this agreement predicts a set of measures and activities to be conducted by the government and state institutions prescribed in the texts of the Amendments 33, 34, 35 and 36 to the Constitution of ...

The Greek PM Alexis Tsipras released a statement after receiving the not for his and Macedonian PM Zoran Zaev’s official nomination for this year’s Nobel Peace prize by previous laureate of the prize Wided Bouchamaoui. “The Prespa Agreement that was recently adopted by both the Parliaments in Skopje and in Athens contributes to the maintaining of the peace, coexistence, solidarity ...