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The President of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia Dimitar Kovacevski and the President of the European Council Charles Michel held a joint press conference after the meeting and the government session. Prime Minister Kovacevski once again confirmed the positions of the Government regarding the European proposal and pointed out that without waiting the proposal should be accepted ...

The protests against the French proposal for the beginning of accession negotiations with the EU of North Macedonia entered the fourth day. On Tuesday, several thousand citizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the proposal in front of the government headquarters, and from there they continued through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Parliament. Several firecrackers and eggs were thrown at ...

“If North Macedonia does not accept the French proposal, Albania should continue on its own path, which I think is fair, but I hope that this will not be necessary,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said after meeting with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, Albanian media reports. Rutte expressed optimism that North Macedonia will accept the French proposal and there ...

Traffic on state roads runs smoothly, on dry roads. At certain roads going through ravines, minor rockslides are possible. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE calls for careful driving and adjustment of the speed to the conditions of the road. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE’s on-call teams are constantly on- site and keep all roads passable.

“The Democratic Union for Integration strongly condemns the violence and anti-European incidents that took place Monday night at the protest organized by VMRO-DPMNE and Levica in front of the Government and Parliament building. Tonight, the citizens witnessed the attempt to repeat the similar attack on the highest legislative body in the country as on 27 April 2017 by political parties ...

Alliance for Albanians leader Zijadin Sela met Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski at the MPs Club. After the one-hour conversation about the French proposal, Kovacevski did not make a statement to the media. Sela, on the other hand, considered that the French proposal is acceptable and the chance to start negotiations should not be missed. “It is not just about accepting ...

The leader of the opposition Hristijan Mickoski called for a mass protest in Ilindenska, convinced that the French document will be adopted by the government on Tuesday. He repeated the offer to Kovacevski to drop 4 points from the negotiation framework and protocol in order to accept the French proposal. According to him, with the acceptance of the current proposal, ...

Last night, Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski, in talks with the smaller coalition parties – Democratic Union, DOM and LDP, gave his consent to the modified French proposal to be put to a plenary session, for the MPs to discuss it and for conclusions to be voted. As Maja Moracanin from the House of Representatives told reporters, at the meeting, they ...

Traffic on state roads runs smoothly, on dry roads. At certain roads going through ravines, minor rockslides are possible. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE calls for careful driving and adjustment of the speed to the conditions of the road. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE’s on-call teams are constantly on- site and keep all roads passable.

For President Stevo Pendarovski, the French proposal to lift the Bulgarian veto and start North Macedonia’s accession negotiations with the EU is acceptable. After the session of the Security Council at which this document was considered, he stated that the decision to accept the proposal would be neither a historic triumph nor a historic debacle. If the government accepts this ...