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Dry road conditions are reported across the country, with moderate traffic outside urban areas. There are 30-minute – 45-munite delays at Bogorodica and Tabanovce border crossings to enter or exit the country. No delays are reporters on other border crossings. Landslides are possible along the routes of Katlanovo – Veles, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Vinica – Berovo and Kochani ...

The Criminal Court in Skopje determined prison sentences for former Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski (6 and a half years), former Education Minister Spiro Ristovski (6 years and 3 months), former Transport Minister Mile Janakieski (6 years and 3 months) and former Head of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence Vladimir Atanasovski (6 years) after finding them guilty of the acts ...

PM Zoran Zaev commented on the requests by Bulgarian politicians for registration of the Bulgarian minority in the Constitution of North Macedonia, saying it can be done, but only when the country is about to become a full-fledged member of the EU. “As you all know, procedures oblige us to open the Constitution for changes in the very moment our ...

The US Congress has appointed congressmen Brendan Boyle and Joe Wilson as heads of the Congress Group for Cooperation with the EU. Congressman Boyle is also Head of the Congress Group for Friendship with North Macedonia, which includes 32 members, while Congressman Wilson is Head of the Congress Group for Friendship with Bulgaria, which includes 12 members. In the upcoming ...

PM Zoran Zaev said that the ruling majority will file one amendment to the Draft-resolution proposed by VMRO-DPMNE in the Parliament for definition of the Macedonian red lines in the negotiations with Bulgaria. “The fact that some of the MPs from VMRO-DPMNE still hesitate about supporting this resolution means they accept reality, but are still unable to recognise the Prespa ...

The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) filed to the Constitutional Court an initiative for evaluation of the constitutionality of the recently adopted Law on Determining Strategic Partners for Construction of Roads along Corridors VIII and X. The initiative also contains a request for the Constitutional Court to issue a temporary measure for halt of the implementation of the ...

The President of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs Arber Ademi stated on Monday evening that none of the amendments filed to the Changes to the Law on Citizenship were accepted during the second reading of the law-changes. “On the first day of the debate, and today on the second one, there were many procedural interventions by the oppositions, but ...

Dry road conditions are reported across the country, with moderate traffic outside urban areas. There are 30-minute – 45-munite delays at Bogorodica and Tabanovce border crossings to enter or exit the country. No delays are reporters on other border crossings. Landslides are possible along the routes of Katlanovo – Veles, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Vinica – Berovo and Kochani ...

MP Dimitar Apasiev announced “war” and warned PS Talat Xhaferi to send secutiry to the session of the Parliamentary committee which will discuss the Law on IDs. Apasiev reacted because the Levica amendments to the Law on Identity Card disappeared during the transfer from the parliamentary archives to the office of the Parliamentary Speaker Xhaferi. The employees of the parliamentary ...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev says that SDSM agrees that the date of the local elections should be 17 October, as requested by the opposition, if all parties agree on that. The proposal to hold the elections on 31 October, Zaev said, was given only because of the coincidence of the terms for the campaign with the date for holding the ...