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According to PM Zoran Zaev, the EU potentially delaying the decision on membership negotiations will put the government in Macedonia in danger. As he said in Brussels on Wednesday, when it comes to each decision concerning enlargement, the Bundestag must previously give a green light. “The Bundestag must send a message, if they don’t make a decision at the session ...

“There are positive signals that the Public Prosecutor’s Office Draft Law will be adopted as soon as possible. We’ll see how the Special Prosecutor’s Office will continue to work,” Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva said on Wednesday. According to her, both the international community and the government are giving clear instructions, unlike the opposition, which is personally affected. In that regard, ...

Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, who heads the Special Prosecutor’s Ofice, said on Wednesday she’d given an order to investigate the wire-tapped materials posted on El Cheka’s Facebook profile. She added that she didn’t have information where the conversations had been obtained from. According to her, the Special Prosecutor’s Office has part of the materials posted on the profile. “I can’t ...

Commenting on the wire-tapped conversations being posted these days on social media, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti said on Wednesday that he hadn’t listened to them, adding that he didn’t intend to so either. According to Ahmeti, he has found out from friends that it’s only about “morning hoar-frost” that will disappear quickly, that is, that there was nothing official in ...

According to the Criminal Court, the temporary passport to Orce Kamcev, a suspect in the Empire case, was given following an obtained positive opinion from the Special Prosecutor’s Office. As it was added in the Court’s press-release on Wednesday, the temporary passport was issued due to urgent official travels of the Kamcev as a Managing Board member and compulsory education, ...

At a meeting at the German Federal Foreign Office with Christian Hellbach, Special Envoy for South- Eastern Europe, Turkey and EFTA countries, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski called for a date for EU membership negotiations for Macedonia. “At the meeting, we talked about the political-economic situation and about this country’s European integrations. I reiterated my stand that citizens don’t deserve to ...

Poor driving conditions are reported throughout the country on wet 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 ...

The PM Zoran Zaev started on Tuesday his official visit to Brussels, where he met the President of the European Commission (EC) Jean-Claude Juncker and the EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn. At a mutual press conference, Juncker and Hahn congratulated Zaev on the progress made by Macedonia so far, pointing it out as the best progress example from the entire ...

The Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg and the NATO Ambassadors of the 29 member-states met on Monday in the Government the PM Zoran Zaev and the members of his cabinet. “You have credible institutions that can cooperate with the institutions of the other NATO member-states,” Stoltenberg told Zaev at a joint press conference after the meeting of the North-Atlantic ...

The Podgorica Club, an Association of former heads of states of the West Balkans, held a conference on Tuesday in Skopje titled “Enlargement of EU at Cross-road”, which saw the signing of a Declaration calling on EU leaders to support the credible perspectives of their respective countries for becoming EU member-states. In the Declaration, the former heads of states accent ...