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Parlaiment, with 65 votes in favour, none against and no abstentions, voted in the new ministers who come from the Alliance of Albanians, as well as the minister from SDSM. Krenar Loga is the new Minister of Justice, Fatmir Mexhiti is the new Minister of Health, Azir Aliu is Minister of Information Society and Administration, all from Alliance for Albanians. ...

“After I took over the management of the Ministry of the Interior, the regular payment of bonus wages for over 150 hours of overtime worked annually was established as a priority, as a guaranteed right of the employees of the Ministry of the Interior according to the Collective Agreement,” announced the Minister of the Interior Oliver Spasovski on his Facebook ...

The private profile of the president of the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (SCPC), Biljana Ivanovska, on “Facebook” has been misused, the SCPC informed. “Certain persons are misusing Ivanovska’s family photos for purposes known to them and are trying to create a false image in public with photomontage. Against them, Ivanovska will initiate a private procedure, taking into ...

  A court error delayed the start of the repeated proceedings for the largest case of the former SPO for the mass wiretapping known as Target-Fortress. Ex-head of UBK Saso Mijalkov and former Minister of Interior Gordana Jankulovska were escorted from prison, the accused UBK employees appeared in the courtroom, but not Toni Jakimovski, Mijalkov’s former Chief of Staff. Judge ...

One year since the Russian military aggression against Ukraine, the bloody conflict that caused a humanitarian, economic, energy and security crisis, a conference entitled “Ukraine, year of heroism” was held in Skopje. Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Bojan Maricic said that 24 February 2022 showed that the European continent can be united strong, stable, resistant, only through unification and ...

The MPs continued their work even after 18:00, and after several presentations and remarks, the President of the Parlaiment, Talat Xhaferi, stopped the session. Due to the upcoming religious holidays, he announced that the Parlaiment will resume work after this session on Monday. During the debate, MP Borislav Krmov from Levica referred to the exposition by Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski, ...

  With statesmanship activities, the Government on 26 February commemorated the 19th anniversary of the plane crash in which the former president, Boris Trajkovski, members of his cabinet and the plane’s crew lost their lives. At this year’s commemoration in Strumica, at the monument of the former president of Macedonia, Boris Trajkovski, a government delegation led by Jovanka Trencevska – ...

The debate in Parliament to dismiss Bekim Sali as Health Minister in the frames of the cabinet reshuffle process continued on Wednesday. However, MPs from the majority haven’t said why he needs to leave the position. The opposition, however, pointed on Wednesday, to, as its members said, the weaknesses he has failed to fix. Opposition parliamentarians also levelled accusations at ...

Despite the initially announced support from parties from the ethnic Albanian bloc, Alternative leader Afrim Gashi says his party’s three votes for the constitutional changes are not unconditional. Criticising PM Dimitar Kovacevski and DUI leader Ali Ahmeti, Gashi said they had “killed” the European dream. Alternative’s condition for support for the changes is acceptance of its amendment for fighting corruption, ...

For the names of the Bulgarian clubs in North Macedonia, the 3-month deadline for changing the names expires on Thursday. Associations are not allowed to use names of controversial historical figures. The Tsar Boris III club in Ohrid has already filed a name change request, whereas the Vancho Mihailov club will seek justice before international courts. Last summer, the Public ...