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On Monday, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski held a meeting with MEP Marion Walsmann and Daniel Braun, official representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for North Macedonia. As VMRO-DPMNE said in the press-release, the meeting saw a discussion on the need to start EU negotiations, which can happen by lifting the unreasonable veto by Bulgaria. “Macedonia deserves to be part of ...

Friendly tones, acknowledgement of the achievement, a short comment on the economic cooperation. These messages sent by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during the visit to Skopje were just additional content to the main topic, that is, whether there be a start of EU membership talks for North Macedonia. As Scholz repeated several times, a promise was made to the Western ...

In the relations between Skopje and Sofia, it’s not just about a historical dispute. Meeting the Copenhagen criteria for EU membership, including human rights and non-discrimination, matters, too. That was said by Bulgarian President Rumen Radev’s press-service on Satudray after the meeting with German Chancellor Olaf SCholz in Sofia. “These are necessary conditions North Macedonia has to fulfil before starting ...

With an undiplomatic joke, Albanain PM Edi Rama interjected in the handshake between German Chancellors Olaf Scholz and PM Dimitar Kovacevski at the Summit of the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) in Thessaloniki. While Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis was presenting to Scholz Rama and Kovacevski, the latter as Prime Minister of North Macedonia, the former interjected by saying “future ...

At this year’s annual Summit of the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) in Thessaloniki, PM Dimitar Kovacevski stated on Friday that Skopje and Tirana were losing precious time due to the non-approval of the negotiating framework. In his view, there is no greater and more efficient decision to strengthen regional stability than a one for a start of negotiations ...

There being no deal between Skopje frustrates us a lot. We would like a deal to be reached by the the meeting of the Council of Ministers this month. That was the message EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi sent from Sofia on Thursday. Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov stated that he had been hearing in the last couple of days a ...

Following an appeal by his lawyer, Lambe Alabakovski has been issued a house arrest measure. On Thursday afternoon, he left the detention ward of the Bitola prison and was taken to his home. That was confirmed for Telma TV by his lawyer, Darko Stefanovski. The 34-year-old singer is a suspect in the Vancho Mihailov club fire. The incident has sparked ...

The government has rejected a debate in the frames of Parliament on the Struma traffic accident and Tetovo hospital fire, in which 60 people were killed. On Thursday, SDSM and DUI MPs weren’t part of the Standing Committee of Inquiry for the Protection of Citizens’ Rights and Freedoms, preventing the quorum enabling the body to debate information related to the ...

Halted European integrations, politicised institutions, political crises, modest economic growth, corruption, and grey economy. These are part of the problems noted by President Stevo Pendarovski. On Thursday, he promoted the MKD2030 Development Framework, with strategies to solve the key problems by the end of the decade. According to the framework, the priority areas in which the country should invest are ...

Singer Lambe Alabakovski, , has been detained under suspicion that he is the one responsible for the Vancho Mihailov club fire in Bitola. On Monday night, with a court order, there was a search at two facilities owned by the suspect, where items related to the crime were found and taken away. Afterwards, the person was deprived of liberty, Interior ...