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VMRO-DPMNE has revealed on Monday the names of the candidates for ministers in the technical government which is to organise the snap parliamentary election on 12 April 2020. The opposition party suggests Rashela Mizrahi for the position Minister of Labour and Social Policy, Cvetan Tripunovski for Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Gordana Dimitrieska-Kocoska for Deputy Minister of Finance and Nevenka Stamenkovska-Stojkovski ...

At a session held on Saturday, the Government of Macedonia adopted the Draft-law for Ratification of the NATO Protocol for Accession of Macedonia in the Alliance. “Once the law is adopted, the ratification of the Protocol will take place, after which it will be forwarded to Washington as soon as Spain ratifies the Protocol too,” the governmental press service reports. ...

A poll conducted by the Centre for European Strategies Eurothink reveals that a majority of citizens (56.8 %) support the integration of Macedonia in the EU. More than half of the citizens believe that Macedonia will be given a date for start of the membership negotiations with the EU around May 2020. 44.4 % of the citizens also believe that ...

President of Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski met on Monday the Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament Talat Xhaferi. At the meeting, as the Office of the President of Macedonia reports, the interlocutors exchanged opinions and information on current political events in Macedonia, as well as on the preparatory activities for the upcoming snap election scheduled for 12 April 2020. Pendarovski and Xhaferi ...

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

PM and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev and VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski in the government in order to discuss the formation of the technical government which is to start functioning on 4 January 2020. At the meeting, Mickoski has promoted as candidate for Interior Minister in the technical government Dragan Kovacki, a professional from the field of defence and military. Kovacki ...

The central and the executive board of SDSM held a meeting on Friday evening, in which it reached a decision to suggest Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski as the Caretaker PM in the technical government which is to start functioning on 3 January 2020. According to the Przino Agreement, a technical government is appointed 100 days before a snap election is ...

According to DUI leader Ali Ahmeti, now is not the right time for changes to the Electoral Code of Macedonia and transformation of the electoral model with 6 electoral districts. “At the party leaders’ meeting we had with President Stevo Pendarovski we all agreed to have snap election on 12 April 2020 under the current conditions. If for any reason ...

In an interview for Greek newspaper To Vima, Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says that he has done all in his power while in opposition to prevent the signing of the Prespa Agreement for resolution of the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece. “We are aware that this Agreement cannot be cancelled, which is why we intend to work on improving ...

Chief of Staff of the Army of Macedonia (ARM) General-major Vasko Gjurcinovski, joined by Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska provided a briefing on the current conditions in ARM to President of Macedonia and Supreme Commander of ARM Stevo Pendarovski. During the meeting, the interlocutors also discussed the process for adoption of the Draft-law on Defence in the Parliament, which is disputed ...