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Traffic on state roads runs smoothly, on wet 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 Judicial Council announced that they will act upon the allegations of Austrian Ambassador Georg Woutsas in relation to a dispute between a company from Austria and two companies from North Macedonia, one of which owned by a cousin of former PM Zoran Zaev. “In the notice we received in relation to this case, the Austrian Ambassador voices dissatisfaction with ...

President of the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) Biljana Ivanovska issued a reaction to First Deputy PM Artan Grubi’s interview for Sitel, in which he voices dissatisfaction with the crime-fighting capacities of the individual members of SCPC. “Once everything is turned upside down, the bottom becomes the top. You are right, Mr. Grubi, that SCPC has no capacity ...

PM Dimitar Kovacevski was officially welcomed in Berlin by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz upon the start of his official visit to Germany. Kovacevski and Scholz held a joint press conference at which they addressed messages about the EU-integration of North Macedonia and the necessity of the constitutional changes. Chancellor Scholz said that Germany greatly respects the Macedonian language, identity and ...

The Platform for Gender Equality (PGE) and the Network for Protection from Discrimination (NPD) condemned the calls of the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) for a protest on Thursday 29 June at which they will demand complete withdrawal of the law-changes for gender equality and legal recognition of gender. “With these activities, MOC violates the secular character of the state and ...

President of the Constitutional Court of North Macedonia Dobrila Kacarska claims that the initiative of the Justice Ministry for introduction of an ethnicity graph in the documents for personal identification goes against the Constitution. “The Constitutional Court decided to initiate by itself procedures against this initiative, but until the service prepares the case, I cannot make my doubts clear, because ...

The State Audit Office (SAO) published the reports for the financial work of the political parties SDSM, VMRO-DPMNE, DUI and Alternative. In the report for the financial work of SDSM, SAO reveals issues with the procedures in which the party collects membership fees from its branches, as well a sunresolved status of some of the objects owned by the party. ...

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.

President Stevo Pendarovski voiced hope that the constitutional changes will be adopted by November this year. “The government is expected to adopt the initiative for constitutional changes over the following two weeks. There are some minimum steps of progress after the meeting between the leaders of the government and the opposition, but they still cannot reach compromise over this matter. ...

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski reiterated in Brussels the party’s positions that they will not support constitutional changes, as he states, under Bulgarian instruction. “We were shocked to find out that whenever representatives of the government came to Brussels, they only complained about us, about the opposition, and asked for EU politicians to pressure us into accepting constitutional changes under Bulgarian ...