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At around 11 pm on Monday, Parliament, with 63 votes in favour and 32 against, adopted the need for the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) and Council of Public Prosecutors (CPP) laws to be adopted in a shortened procedure. Now, the document needs to be transferred to the Parliament’s Committee on European Affairs before it heads to a plenary session. Previously, ...

The independent group of VMRO-DPMNE has criticised Hristijan Mickoski’s press-conference on Monday at which the VMRO-DPMNE leader said the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) law represented amnesty for SDSM leader and ex-PM Zoran Zaev, his associates, and a smaller part of the leadership of VMRO-DPMNE. The eight MPs said on the same day, it is obvious Mickoski is advised by people ...

Caretaker PM Oliver Spasovski will not dismiss caretaker Labour and Social Policy Minister Rashela Mizrahi. On Sunday, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov said his Ministry had received a note of protest from Greece Mizrahi was holding press-conferences outside a sign on which the previous constitutional name of the country was used. According to Macedonia’s Government, what’s most important at the moment ...

On Monday, Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi presented the revised enlargement methodology to the European Parliament. As he said, the Commission stands by the recommendations to open accession negotiations with Skopje and Tirana “and we hope that these can be opened before the Western Balkan summit in Zagreb.” According to him, a priority of the Commission is to accelerate progress in ...

Game show host Lila Stojanovska evaded nearly two million denars in tax, the Financial Police Office has found. The charge came from Dan-Mak, the company that had transferred, on three occasions, a little over 16 million denars to Stojanovska’s personal bank account on the basis of a contract for a project for an international association for human rights protection. As ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on mostly dry 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 ...

Following Greece’s protest note, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov said on Sunday that caretaker Labour and Social Policy Minister Rashela Mizrahi should once again start to use the sign containing the new name of the country she’d removed on Friday. According to him, otherwise, she will be held criminally responsible. Dimitrov added that caretaker Interior Minister Nakje Culev had been the ...

Commenting on the new methodology presented by Commissioner Oliver Varhely, the Head of the EU Delegation, Ambassador Samuel Zbogar, said on Friday it was a win-win situation as far as candidates were concerned. Regarding the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) law, he urged MPs to make efforts and adopt it by consensus. Though it is not a condition for EU, it ...

On Thursday night, Deputy PM for European Affairs Bujar Osmani and Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov held a meeting with Andrej Plenkovic. “The integration of the Western Balkans into the EU is very important to Croatia,” the Croatian PM said. He hopes that Macedonia will start negotiations even before the Zagreb Summit in May. Osmani thanked Plenkovic for his engagement in ...

EU and NATO membership is achieved only through a policy of unity, MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk, European Parliament Rapporteur on Macedonia, said on Sunday. He expects Macedonia’s politicians to firmly back the country’s strategic priorities in the elections. Kyuchyuk added that regardless of the election results, national consensus had to be found in terms of running the country. “Difficult reforms are ...