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In an interview with Kanal 5 TV on Thursday, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said his party would on Friday submit a declaration to Parliament that would outline the positions on the Goce Delcev issue on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the revolutionary’s birth. As he pointed out, if he were the PM, together with Bulgarian counterpart Kiril Petkov, ...

The Court of Appeals has accepted the guarantees and annulled the house arrest measures for Former Government Secretary General Dragi Raskovski and ex-Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski. Raskovski and Veljanoski offered 193,000 and 210,000 euros, respectively. However, their passports have been taken away. The two also have an obligation to report to court. Raskovski is a defendant in the Software case, ...

As of Thursday, former Criminal Court President Vladimir Pancevski is behind bars. In Skopje Prison, he is serving the 2.5-year-prison sentence for abuse of official position. He received a document for the sentence to start on Thursday, but he tried to postpone that with an appeal. Judges from the same Court Pancevski headed rejected it. At around 2 pm, he ...

President Stevo Pendarovski’s meeting with representatives of associations of ethnic Macedonians in Bulgaria has continued to spark reactions in Sofia. In response to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev’s description of Kiril Petkov’s visit to Skopje as rash, Bulgaria’s PM said the visit had been in fact belated. However, he added that foreign policy was made in the Government. Democratic Bulgaria’s Hristo ...

A 56-year-old Bitola man, not a terrorist organisation, is behind the death threats against Ljubomir Joveski, Public Prosecutor, and Vilma Ruskovska, head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption, but also towards an embassy. The suspect, Stevce Zika, was detained by police in Bitola in his and his mother’s home. A mobile phone and a ...

In the frames of their visit to Paris, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani and Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic held a meeting on Wednesday with French President Emmanuel Macron’s Continental Europe and Turkey Adviser, Isabelle Dumont. Skopje and Paris have set the European perspectives on a joint path, creating a basis to build a more stable, more efficient, and ...

On Wednesday, former Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakieski didn’t appear at the trial over the TNT case, which concerns the demolition of the Cosmos complex in 2011. His lawyers presented a positive COVID test from Acibadem Sistina Hospital. If a hearing isn’t held over the case by the end of February, 90 days will have passed from one ...

The security situation in the country is stable, while there aren’t for now indications that would indicate that there could be endangerment of North Macedonia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. That was the message sent by President Stevo Pendarovski after Tuesday’s session of the Security Council. Regarding the developments in relation to Ukraine, the President’s stand is that one shouldn’t believe ...

“Macedonian Bulgarians will fight for equality, which is guaranteed in their Constitution. They fight for full integration of theirs in the public life in the country. This is radically different than the separatist stands and minority claims being expressed by the people President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski meets,” Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is quoted as saying by BGNES. According ...

According to DUI, VMRO-DPMNE’s constant reactions are a clear indicator of that party’s clear goal against ethnic Albanians as heads of state institutions, exactly at a time when the country sees significant progress in the important political processes to unblock its EU path. As Ali Ahmeti’s party added on Tuesday, its staff in that regard are engaged with full legitimacy ...