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On Tuesday, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski held a working meeting with the Head of the OSCE Mission, Ambassador Kilian Wahl. The Mission handed over a valuable donation, specialised vehicles worth 50,000 euros, in the frames of the project for assisting North Macedonia’s national authorities in reducing the risk of proliferation of weapons and misuse of small arms and light weapons, ...

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.

Croatia and Slovenia will not support French President’s stand on a multi-speed Europe if it formally enters institutions in Brussels. According to Croatian President Zoran Milanovic, such a thesis is unattainable. As one of the chairs of the Brdo-Brijuni Process, Milanovic said in Skopje on Monday that it was key for Western Balkan countries to stay in the process, while ...

On Monday, before the meeting with German Government’s Special Representative for the Countries of the Western Balkans, Manuel Sarrazin, PM Dimitar Kovacevski said he expected the constitutional changes to be supported by all MPs in Parliament, except Levica’s two parliamentarians. Later that day, that is, at the meeting, Sarrazin confirmed the German Government’s strong support for the EU path of ...

In Skopje on Monday, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski, together with party Vice-President Aleksandar Nikoloski and Executive Committee member Antonijo Milososki, held a meeting with the German Government’s Special Representative for the Countries of the Western Balkans, Manuel Sarrazin. As the party pointed out in the press- release, regarding the constitutional changes, the opposition leader reaffirmed the stand that the government ...

Regarding the Oncology Clinic case, the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje said on Monay it would take additional steps to provide maximum transparency of the procedure. “On the basis of the request of Oncology Clinic patients presented at the 7 September meeting, the Office will today ask the informal organisation through which patients have presented their requests to choose ...

On Monday, Deputy PM Slavica Grkovska voiced satisfaction with the changes to the Criminal Code concerning confiscation of assets. However, she is not satisfied with the part of the changes concerning abuse of duty and criminal association. Expanded confiscation is favourable because those that have broken the law will feel they lose something as a result of the confiscation, while ...

The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) has a new case for criminal prosecution of Struga Mayor Ramiz Merko. The suspicions are related to illegal expropriation of land in the centre of the city involving Municipality employees too, people close to them from a geodesy company, and judges from the Administrative and Higher Administrative Court. Over the judges matter, ...

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.

According to PM Dimitar Kovacevski, the changes to the Criminal Code aim at alignment with EU regulations. As he pointed on Friday, there is no deal on pardons. Kovacevski stated that the changes would modernise the Code, result in more efficient trials, concretise crimes, and see confiscation of illegally acquired assets. The same day, VMRO-DPMNE, commenting on President Stevo Pendarovski’ ...