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At Monday’s session of the National European Integration Council, the situation regarding the upcoming June Summit was being considered. Deputy PM for European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov is moderately optimistic that the EU is aware of the stake it has with regards to enlargement, on which the EU’s credibility in the region depends, too. As he reiterated, in the talks with ...

On his official Facebook page on Monday, PM Zoran Zaev, speaking about the 76th anniversary of the Macedonian orthography, said the Macedonian language “is our identity.” As he added, the Government is honestly and strongly committed to fostering and promoting it. “That is so because our language is our identity. As long as the Macedonian language exists, the Macedonians, too, ...

In an interview with Politika, President Stevo Pendarovski says the Macedonian identity and language are not subject to any negotiations, nor could they be. “Our identity and the Macedonian language are a result of a cultural and scientific fact,” he points out for the Serbian newspaper, adding that they were also a result of the years-long historical and cultural development. ...

North Macedonia doesn’t accept the Declaration voted through by Bulgarian Parliament, according to PM Zoran Zaev. As he said on Friday, the proposal submitted by Portugal is on the table. The PM urged the Council to green-light the Europeanisation of the country and Western Balkans. VMRO-DPMNE and its leader, Hristijan Mickoski, however, once again accused Zaev of being part of ...

After two days of assumptions about what the surprise DUI President Ali Ahmeti would announce on Saturday, the leader of the party said that day his party was accepting the green agenda. At the marking of DUI’s 19th birthday, Ahmeti talked in front of the young also about the activism of Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. At the start and end ...

At a working dinner in Istanbul on Saturday, PM Zoran Zaev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the mutual friendly relations between Skopje and Istanbul, full of dynamic cooperation in multiple areas, the Government of North Macedonia said in a press-release. Zaev, accompanied by Health Minister Venko Filipce, highlighted the exceptionally good economic cooperation between the two countries. North ...

Former Government Sec Gen Dragi Raskovski is heading to house arrest. The Court of Appeals made on Friday the decision to replace the detention measure after the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje had accepted the offered guarantee of around 500,000 euros. Raskovski is a suspect in the case concerning procurement of software for traffic offences. The following day, PM ...

Former Security and Counter-Intelligence Administration Director Saso Mijalkov will not be criminally prosecuted due to his unavailability, that is, escape. A public prosecutor has found there is no basis for a public prosecutor’s decision because the existence of a crime that is prosecuted ex officio hasn’t been determined. As it was explained in Saturday’s press-release, videos and phone conversations from ...

PM Zoran Zaev is without concrete details about the Portuguese non-paper and guarantees being demanded by Bulgaria. He said on Thursday the roadmap for inter-sectoral cooperation was being considered in the frames of the Foreign Ministry. In his view, it is important to prepare it so that the intergovernmental conference is achieved as well. With regards to the guarantees, Zaev’s ...

VMRO-DPMNE and Levica believe that the Citizenship Draft Law should be adopted consensually and that the experts’ opinion should be taken into consideration. In their view, otherwise, the law will be annulled by the Constitutional Court because it includes contested articles. The two parties are against support to the amendments agreed upon between the ruling structure and the opposition from ...