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There is no good news from Brussels. After an all-day meeting, the General Affairs Council of the European Union adopted the conclusions on enlargement, but there is no date for negotiations for North Macedonia. As expected, Bulgaria confirmed the veto of the General Affairs Council. Although the word blockade was not mentioned at all at the press conference, EU President ...

The newly elected President of SDSM Dimitar Kovacevski, together with his predecessor and current Prime Minister Zoran Zaev held meetings with representatives of coalition partners that are part of the parliamentary majority. “These are consultative meetings to get acquainted with the manner of cooperation with coalition partners so far, as well as future cooperation in the coalition,” confirmed SDSM. Zaev ...

“I am convinced that at the meetings of the working groups between North Macedonia and Bulgaria on topics that would be infrastructure, economy, culture, education – we will be able to show that we have made serious preparations in the past period,” said the Special Representative of the Government for Bulgaria, Vlado Buckovski, regarding the proposal of the new Bulgarian ...

In the last 24 hours, 353 new COVID-19 cases have been registered, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. It was added that the same period had seen 3,162 new tests, 450 new recovered patients, and 10 new deaths. The total number of COVID-diagnosed persons in the country since the beginning of the epidemic is 219,843, the number of recovered patients ...

One constituency, no electoral threshold, open lists, proportional model – the smaller parliamentary parties again, this time in the run-up to the vote for a new government, are actualizing their demand for reform of the electoral legislation. However, they do not specify whether this will be a condition for the government in exchange for their parliamentary votes for the government, ...

The new leader of SDSM Dimitar Kovacevski is the most likely prime minister-designate for the new government, in which except for DUI will also take part Alternative, but the final decision will have to be made by the party in Congress. There is no information when it would take place, but Kovacevski says that it will be in accordance with ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bujar Osmani, participated in the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Western Balkans, at the invitation of the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss. Special guests at the meeting were Stuart Peach, United Kingdom Special Representative for the Western Balkans, Miroslav Lajcak, EU Special Representative for the ...

The President of the Central Election Commission of SDSM, Viktorija Madic, announced the results of the intra-party elections of SDSM. Dimitar Kovacevski is the new president of SDSM. He was elected with 37,649 votes from the membership. The other two candidates were Jovan Despotovski who won 3,319 votes and Frosina Remenski who received 2,836 votes. 602 ballots were invalid. SDSM ...

“I’m not a person who gives up, that’s not in my nature, and who, if not us, will get down to work when it’s hardest. And when it was most difficult, there were people who believed in me and supported me, and I believed in them and in my goal, to reform VMRO-DPMNE and return it to victory road. Because ...

The first officers from the North Macedonian Army have been selected to work in the Alliance’s commands as NATO officers, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. Lieutenant Colonel Gjorgji Vasilevski will be the Staff Officer for Operations Support, Hybrid Warfare and Counter-Terrorism in the Operations Planning Department at NATO’s International Military Headquarters in Brussels, Lt. Col. Goran Stojanovski ...