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“All Interior Ministry employees will be covered by the vetting process. Their professional education, integrity, asset declaration and potential criminal activities by certain structures at the Interior Ministry will be being checked,” Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski said at Monday’s tribune on vetting. As he added, the judiciary and the Prosecutor’s Office should be interested in vetting in order to strengthen ...

On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron criticised the absence of a deal within the frameworks of the EU on the top posts and once again urged institutional reforms. He stated that procedures had to be simplified “so that we are faster, stronger and progress together.” In that regard, the French President stated that he was sceptical about the stories that ...

The first Pride parade was held in Skopje on Thursday. Participants said that this way, LGBTI people were demanding protection and support for human rights. There was a big number of police officers. Support for Skopje pride was expressed by, among others, singer Tamara Todevska, the US Embassy in Macedonia and representatives of the authorities. The Government supported the parade ...

Though she doesn’t expect swift EU integration of the Western Balkans, German Chancellor Angela Merkel highlights that the region has a European perspective. In her video podcast, published on Sunday on the occasion of the upcoming Western Balkans Summit that will be held on Friday within the frameworks of the Berlin Process, she adds that countries from the region should ...

Former Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakieski was issued on Friday a 30-day detention measure within the frameworks of the case concerning sale of state-owned land. Another seven suspects, including Ministry of Transport and Communications employee and VMRO-DPMNE Executive Committee member Dimitar Dimovski and Dejan Mitrevski, who heads the party’s Municipal Committee in Aeorodrom, were issued the same measure. ...

A new conversation has appeared on a Russian social network on which Government Sec Gen Dragi Raskovski can be heard talking to some people about procuring a flight control system. On the 15-minute audio, posted on the Expres portal, another two persons can be heard. It is written that they’re an M-NAV board President and a representative of an Italian ...

“We’re focused on October. We’ve shown European conduct towards the region, towards the neighbourhood, we’re building bridges. At home, we have had an unbelievable democratic turnaround in the last two years. I think we’re absolutely ready to start the accession process. We’re not ready for membership, but we want to be using the process as a democratic tool to become ...

At Friday’s session for parliamentary questions, PM Zoran Zaev said an investigation had been opened over the allegations of racketeering, blackmails and money for the so-called Koki and Kiki, pseudonyms for an owner of a TV station and a politician from the Government. Answering a question asked by VMRO-DPMNE’s Antonio Milososki, the PM added that the target of the two ...

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 ...