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VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski has said he is ready to bridge every difference if that means the Government protecting national interests. On Tuesday, he once again called for national unity in the negotiations with Bulgaria. “Let them take very seriously the importance of the historic moments we carry as a generation. And I don’t know why us achieving national unity ...

The ruling coalition has rejected the opposition’s proposal for a debate on the Draft-Declaration on Goce Delcev in the frames of Parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee. The body’s Chair, Antonio Milososki, said on Tuesday the Government had missed out on the chance for the Declaration to be a point of unification around the undisputed leader in the liberation of Macedonia. However, ...

During a Greek Parliament debate, MP and former PM Alexis Tsipras said that New Democracy, while it had been an opposition party, would claim the Prespa deal was treacherous and fanaticise citizens to head to protests, but later on had betrayed them. On the other hand, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated there was “strong disagreements” over aspects over the Agreement, adding ...

“Unity isn’t achieved by creating hysteria over the negotiations with Bulgaria,” PM Dimitar Kovacevski said on Monday in response to VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski’s call for national unification around state interests. Kovacevski doesn’t see sincerity in the call. In the PM’s view, there are two reasons for that – VMRO-DPMNE’s rejection of the invitation to participate in the working groups ...

Bishop Agatangel’s actions have once again sparked reactions. Accompanied by Kavadarci Mayor Mitko Jancev, Hristijan Mickoski, and other persons, on Monday, he prayed for God’s help for the opposition leader. “We will not allow someone who doesn’t feel Macedonia to determine our country’s fate,” Agatangel noted. He also referred to Mickoski as “our president”. In Agatangel’s view, Mickoski will, with ...

Neither Katica Janeva nor Bojan Jovanovski, both convicted in the Extortion case, came on Monday to the trial in which businessperson Orce Kamcev is suing them for 1.5 million euros, money he allegedly given to them. The former Special Prosecutor’s insistence to attend the hearings, but also for costs for the transfer from the prison to be covered was not ...

Confessing is a moral act, we feel a need to assume responsibility, which is something one shouldn’t run away from. That was the way in which eight defendants explained on Friday why they decided to confess in the Titanic case, in which they are tried for electoral irregularities. In tears, they said the trial had harmed them and their families. ...

According to SDSM, Friday’s confessions in the Titanic case prove the “criminal rule, blackmails, and threats” citizens experienced during VMRO-DPMNE’s rule. However, as the party said on Saturday, it proves also that all elections during that rule were illegitimate. “Resignations are needed because there are persons against whom there are court proceedings in the current leadership of the opposition. We ...

“I cannot explain to the average Macedonian voter or citizen how it’s important for entering the EU — an organisation established in 1957, in the 20th century — what ethnicity Goce Delcev was or some other foundational hero, like Tsar Samuel ten centuries ago,” President Stevo Pendarovski told Euronews. It is added in the text that though Pendarovski “still believes ...

North Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry has issued a press-release for nationals of North Macedonia in relation to Ukraine. “Monitoring closely the situation in and around Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of North Macedonia would like to call upon all nationals of the Republic of North Macedonia to adhere to the following: All nationals of North Macedonia planning ...