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The reactions to the developments related to the Oncology Clinic have continued. On Monday, the institution’s head, Violeta Klisarova, said that since she’d become the Director, all patients had received the prescribed therapy, without any manipulations. 12 doctors decide on the treatment method, the path of the medicines from the moment they are brought to the Clinic to the moment ...

On Monday, the opposition officially requested for Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi to put the need for constitutional changes up for a vote. As VMRO-DPMNE’s Parliamentary Group said, the procedure shouldn’t be stalled. However, Xhaferi again didn’t respond. His stand that he will convene the session once a two-thirds majority is secured remains. For that, he has the support from PM ...

On Monday, Deputy PM for Good Governance Policies Slavica Grkovska met with the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri. They discussed Rome’s candidacy for Expo 2030. As she added, Italy and North Macedonia have long-time productive cooperation. The Deputy PM expressed gratitude for Italy’s support for Skopje’s EU path. Grkovska stated that her Cabinet had set up excellent cooperation with Italy’s ...

On Monday, President Stevo Pendarovski met with the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer. They talked about the process of transformation, equipping, and modernisation of North Macedonia’s Army, as well as about participation in international operations and exercises. There was also a discussion on the cooperation between North Macedonia and NATO, current regional and security issues, the ...

The young from North Macedonia and Bulgaria, despite sharing same problems and wishes, know and communicate with one another very little, while the political situation and tension between the two countries is an additional problem for them. That was one of the stands presented at Monday’s debate on joint visions and challenges regarding North Macedonia-Bulgaria relations through the prism of ...

The old primary school in Kuckovo village will be reconstructed and transformed into a regional centre for rehabilitation of children that have beaten cancer. The project is supported by the Ministry of Local Self-Government and Switzerland’s Government. It will be implemented by the Centre for Development of the Skopje Planning Region in the frames of the project “The Story Continues”. ...

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.

Computers, digital data, and documentation were seized and taken away during Friday’s searches at the Oncology Clinic and homes of Clinic employees, the Prosecutor’s Office said on Saturday. The expertise will show whether there was therapy trade for profit. The searches are in the frames of a pre-investigation opened by the Office following the series of texts by the Fokus ...

According to VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski, the Government’s announcements that the country will have joined the EU by 2030 are manipulations and lies. “The Government has destroyed this process by accepting to implement something that the people doesn’t accept,” he said on Saturday. As he pointed out again, elections are the only way out. The following day, PM Dimitar Kovacevski ...

On Friday, President Stevo Pendarovski, commenting on his French counterpart’s stands regarding enlargement and reform, stated that Emmanuel Macron’s statement was nothing new. According to him, Macron’s idea has never set reforming the EU as a condition for enlargement. Pendarovski stated that there hadn’t been any statement by Macron in which the French President stated that the Western Balkans shouldn’t ...