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Talking about the Tamara Todevska case, PM Zoran Zaev said on Thursday that mistakes happened because the anthem was sang every day and everythwere. The Government, too, considers that the fact that part of the text containing the names of Goce Delcev, Pitu Guli and Jane Sandanski wasn’t included in the performance to be an unintentional mistake. On the other ...

“Army of the Republic of North Macedonia” is the Army’s new name. President Stevo Pendarovski said on Thursday he’d signed the decision to rename it the previous day. That means that the Army should procure uniforms containing the new name in the coming period. Regarding the initiative to change the Electoral Code, the President said he didn’t have the competence ...

Good driving conditions on mainly dry roads. Intensity of traffic outside urban areas increased. No long delays on border-crossings for exiting the country. From 25 June the road in Dracevo by the railway near village of Lisice will be closed for one week due to laying a new layer of asphalt. Regional road Caska-Goloznici will be temporarily closed due to ...

At a press-conference in Poznan, where the 2019 Western Balkans Summit is taking place, FM Nikola Dimitrov said on Thursday that EU integration of the Western Balkans represented completion, not enlargement. At the joint press-conference with his counterparts from several countries, the pledge of those countries for a start of negotiations for Macedonia and Albania was once again confirmed. German ...

PM Zoran Zaev isn’t discouraged by French President Emmanuel Macron’s stands on enlargement. He is optimistic that Macedonia still has the chance for the European perspective with the new composition of the EU institutions, too. “It’s about Member States that are friends of the country,” he said on Wednesday. According to the PM, Macedonia has delivered in the field of ...

Greece will try to improve the issues of languages, nationality, citizenship that were closed by the Prespa Agreement to its benefit. This was announced by New Democracy MP Nikos Dendias, whose name is being mentioned as a potential future FM, in an interview with a Greek TV station. According to him, what will be demanded is not a revision of ...

The abuse of office criminal charge against former Culture Minister Elizabeta Kanceska Milevska, the former Deputy Minister and the Manager at the Ministry has been rejected by the Prosecutor’s Office. As it was said on Wednesday, a relevant public prosecutor from the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje has rejected the charge against three persons about unscrupulous operation within the ...

PM Zoran Zaev will not ask Dragi Raskovski to resign as Government Sec Gen because he doesn’t consider that his behaviour at Tuesday’s press-conference was arrogant. According to Zaev, Raskovski apologised, while media cannot tear anybody apart. The Government will not sue any media, while persons, if they feel offended, can file lawsuits. Regarding the words Raskovski used in the ...

“As the next, 30th, member of the Alliance, we’re serious about being a dignified member,” PM Zoran Zaev said in his address at Wednesday’s presentation of “Digitisation of the crisis management system”, organsied by the Crisis Management Centre and NATO. According to Zaev, Macedonia hopes to formally and fully become a member of the Alliance by the end of the ...

Good driving conditions on mainly dry roads. Intensity of traffic outside urban areas increased. No long delays on border-crossings for exiting the country. From 25 June the road in Dracevo by the railway near village of Lisice will be closed for one week due to laying a new layer of asphalt. Regional road Caska-Goloznici will be temporarily closed due to ...