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The Western Balkans is stuck in the European’s waiting room. The EU should admit it before Ukraine. This message was sent in Skopje on Wednesday by former CDU/CSU leader Armin Laschet. According to him, Euro-scepticism is on the rise in his country, too, while it’s time for Brussels to set new priorities in order for the credibility of the whole ...

For the first time in the country’s independence, a state institution, like the Commission for Prevention and Protection against Discrimination, is seeking court protection against a state institution, the Education Ministry, as an organ of the Government, in the textbook case. The lawsuit will be submitted as soon as possible to a court, Vesna Bendevska, head of the Commission says. ...

At a press-conference on Tuesday over the Oncology Clinic case, VMRO-DPMNE Spokesperson Naum Stoilkovski asked whether the CATO system had been disconnected in order for there to be crime with fatal consequences. “The abuse of cytostatics and therapy at the Clinic is a mega-crime with fatal consequences, criminal association for stealing medicines from cancer patients in order for those medicines ...

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.

Parliament will form a committee of inquiry to determine political accountability for political and health officials over the Oncology Clinic’s work. The proposal was submitted on Tuesday by 20 VMRO-DPMNE MPs. The body will have one month after the end of its work to submit a final report to Parliament. It will be determining whether the patients’ fundamental human rights ...

While the CATO system was locked for years at the Oncology Clinic, then-Director Nino Vasev had final say on which patient would be given the expensive biological therapy because oncologists had to get approval exclusively signed by him, according to auditors from the State Audit Office. As they pointed out on Tuesday, when the procedure is such, there is room ...

VMRO-DPMNE has continued to ask for Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi to resume the session concerning the constitutional changes. On Tuesday, Dafina Stojanoska, MP from Hristijan Mickoski’s party, stated that the procedure shouldn’t be stalled and that there should be a vote. She cited the Rules of Procedure, which, as she pointed out, for a Constitutional change, provides for 10 working ...

“Today, upon an initiative from Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic, a meeting was held with the EU Delegation’s Head, Ambassador David Geer, and EU mission heads in our country,” the Secretariat for European Affairs said on Tuesday. The meeting saw a discussion on multiple current political topics, with the focus being on the dynamism of the EU negotiations ...

Oversights in the procedure before the signing of the deal with Bechtel and ENKA are noted in the report prepared by the Societas Civilis Institute for Democracy. According to Societas Civilis, there was a violation of the Rules of Procedure of both the Government and Parliament, while the oversights occurred as early at the start, with non-compliance with the lobbying ...

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.