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According to Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic, there is a possibility of the constitutional changes being made simultaneously with the screening process. He emphasises that North Macedonia’s concept of the Constitution and environment has always been inclusive for all communities. Maricic states that the Government will open dialogue with all parties and MPs. “We consider there will be ...

The Government of North Macedonia adopted on Thursday evening a decision to declare a state of energy crisis on the entire territory of the country. The state of energy crisis will become effective on 1 September 2022 and will last for 30 days. The government also reached a decision for declaring a state of crisis in the City of Skopje ...

Defence Minister Slavjanka Petrovska said on Thursday that in 2023 North Macedonia, as a NATO member, will purchase a system for anti-aircraft defence from France. “I am to sign the contract for this procurement around the beginning of September with my French counterpart, and the system will be delivered to us in 2023. Its location is a classified information. Besides ...

President Stevo Pendarovski commented that it would be very difficult for a two-third majority to be secured in Parliament for the constitutional changes necessary for continuation of the EU accession talks for North Macedonia. “I really doubt that the current opposition is in the mood to support constitutional changes, even though the documents signed and ratified so far do not ...

VMRO-DPMNE Leader Hristijan Mickoski once again offered to completely withdraw from politics if the government manages to gain the support of 80 MPs for the changes to the Constitution which would include the Bulgarian minority in its preamble. “I invite the government majority to immediately hold a session over the constitutional changes once the MPs return to work next week. ...

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski commented in an interview for Sitel TV on the situation with the suspension of Head of the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime (BPPOOC) Vilma Ruskovska and several other topics. “The judiciary in our country remains independent, and the government only creates conditions for improvement of its work. We secured good working conditions, and in ...

Economy Minister Kreshnik Bekteshi announced via Facebook that the government, in coordination with EVN Macedonia and Mayor of Aracinovo Ridvan Ibraimi, found a solution to the problem with the defect of the electricity network in Aracinovo because of which the citizens are left without electricity for three days now. “The solution we agreed upon is temporary, but we hope that ...

Bulgarian judicial authorities are to conduct another investigation at the site of the Struma motorway where on 23 November 2021 a bus of the company Besa Trans transporting Macedonian citizens from Istanbul to Skopje crashed and caught fire, resulting with the death of 45 of the passengers. Lawyer of some of the relatives of the victims Nikolay Dimitrov informs that ...

The Health Ministry report that they have registered over the past 24 hours 381 new COVID-19 cases out of 1,131 tests conducted among citizens. The Health Ministry also registered 775 patients recovered from COVID-19 infection, as well as 6 death cases. So far in the country, 338,929 cases of COVID-19 have been registered, of which 326,990 have recovered, 2,478 are ...

The State Electoral Commission (SEC) informed that political parties and candidates at the local election that was held on Saturday in Tetovo, Mavrovo-Rostuse and Centar Zupa can file appeals over the results as late as 07:00 p.m. on Monday. If appeals are filed, SEC would process them as late as Wednesday, while parties and candidates can file lawsuits over the ...