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Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani held on Tuesday an extraordinary meeting with accredited ambassadors to EU members and to EU-related institutions. The reason was the start of the Slovenian Presidency. According to the Foreign Ministry, the future diplomatic actions with regards to the country’s European file will focus on using the opportunities offered by the Presidency because Ljubljana is interested in ...

Former Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has criticised his successor, Kyriakos Mitsotakos, about the ratification of the memoranda with North Macedonia being late. According to Tsipras, despite saying he complies with the Prespa Agreement, the current Greek PM is delaying indefinitely the ratification of the three memoranda. As the former PM points out, two years ago, Mitsotakis, hand in hand with ...

The trial over the alleged organisation of the 27 April 2017 storming of Parliament continued on Monday. Former Labour and Social Policy Minister Spiro Ristovski said in his closing arguments that there was not a single piece of evidence that he had been part of a preparation of a plan to organise the storming. As he added, it is not ...

In the last 24 hours, five new COVID-19 cases have been registered, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. It was added that the same period had seen 1,749 new tests, six new cured patients, and no new deaths. The number of active cases in the country is 183. Monday also saw the start of vaccination process without an appointment. Every ...

Though all parties have provided initial support for the Draft-Resolution filed by VMRO-DPMNE concerning the so-called red lines in relation to identity issues, MPs still cannot agree on when it should be placed on the agenda of a session. A deal hasn’t been struck with regards to the no-confidence motions against the Deputy PM for Fighting Corruption, Sustainable Development, and ...

Upon an invitation from the Andreas Papandreou Foundation, in cooperation with the Region of Attica and City of Athens, Deputy PM for European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov is participating in the Symi International Symposium. As the European Affairs Secretariat said in Monday’s press-release, Dimitrov participated in the panel “What is the future of Europe without the Balkans?”, discussing the current challenges ...

The Minister of Political System and Inter-Community Relations, Artan Grubi, who also serves as First Deputy PM, held a meeting on Monday with the Head of the EU Delegation to Macedonia, David Geer. The unreserved EU support for North Macedonia’s processes of development and integration, Government’s commitment to further advancing reforms, policies of dialogue, and country’s strategic goals were among ...

The use of the constitutional name in the text and some other formalities are enough for the government to accept VMRO-DPMNE’s Draft-Resolution concerning the identity. PM and SDSM President Zoran Zaev is convinced that there will be no further obstacles preventing an adjusted position by all parties in Parliament concerning the text. The PM said on Saturday DUI had accepted ...

PM Zoran Zaev said on Saturday that Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi had delivered an address in Albanian at the EP in contradiction with North Macedonia’s Constitution. According to him, at two sessions in the European Parliament, Xhaferi was speaking in Macedonian, while the third saw him use Albanian because he was “provoked by some individuals from neighbouring Bulgaria”. Zaev added ...

The EU must find a way when it comes to integration of the Western Balkans, which would represent geographic and political consolidation of the European continent, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said in his address at the panel of Foreign Ministers “The International Community and the Western Balkans: How to End the Quarantine?”, held in the frames of the Dubrovnik Forum, ...