SkopjeDiem Macedonia in English

According to Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, a proposal adjusted by all EU members should be seen before a stand of North Macedonia on such proposal. He sent that message on Thursday, asked about the French proposal issue. Osmani’s stand is that though the political scene in Bulgaria is not encouraging, Skopje is following the path paved by the French Presidency. ...

The claims presented in the no-confidence motion, according to Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi, clearly point to the submitters’ initiative to, without any grounds, devalue his achievements and outstanding contribution in raising the level of dialogue and democratic culture in the legislative home. In response to the motion filed by the Parliamentary Group of VMRO-DPMNE, Xhaferi stresses that the party’s parliamentarians ...

Singer Lambe Alabakovski has been released from house arrest in the case concerning the Vancho Mihailov club fire in Bitola, pending trial, his lawyer, Darko Stefanovski, confirmed for Fokus on Tuesday. The Basic Court in Bitola’s Criminal Council has decided for Alabakovski’s passport to be taken away as a means of precaution.The pop singer is charged with causing a general ...

Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov promised to Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi as early as February that he would have lifted the Skopje veto by the end of June, according to Bulgaria’s resigning Foreign Minister, Teodora Genchovska. In Parliament in Sofia on Wednesday, she also revealed that Petkov, through his Foreign Policy Advisor, had tried to revise and soften Bulgaria’s framework position ...

In the frames of his visit to Brussels, Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic held a meeting on Tuesday with EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi. They talked about the Skopje-Sofia dialogue, Western Balkans’ European perspective, situation in Ukraine, and its consequences. As Maricic said, preserving the stability in the region and orienting towards more intensive cooperation between candidate countries ...

On Tuesday, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski held a meeting with the leaders of the parties that are part of the coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE. As it was added, all parties have a unanimous stand, that is, that the people are living worse and worse, while crime is an everyday occurrence,. The leaders of the parties expressed support for the protest ...

US President Joseph Biden has continued for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13219 with respect to the Western Balkans. “The actions of persons threatening the peace and international stabilization efforts in the Western Balkans, including acts of extremist violence and obstructionist activity, and the situation in the Western Balkans, which stymies progress toward effective and democratic ...

North Macedonia’s integration must be a sustainable and irreversible process, and attached to real results in fulfilling the membership criteria. That was the focal point of Bulgarian President Rumen Radev’s phone conversation with European Council President Charles Michel. Radev stated that meeting the Copenhagen criteria, giving constitutional guarantees for respecting the rights of the Bulgarians in North Macedonia, and preserving ...

Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic started on Monday his two-day visit to Brussels. After the meetings with Stefano Sannino, Secretary General of the EU External Action Service, and Michela Matuella, Western Balkans Director at the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, he said EU leaders had to use the historic moment and respond to the current crisis by ...

On Monday PM Dimitar Kovacevski held a meeting in Istanbul with the President of Turkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The traditionally good and friendly relations between the two countries where discussed. Kovacevski said he was satisfied with the sharing of same goals concerning security and stability in the region. The key factors for that are good-neighbourly relations and improving infrastructure connectivity, ...