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According to Bulgarian Foreign Minister Mariya Gabriel, Sofia’s position on Skopje is very clear, that is, fulfilment of the obligations agreed on and accepted in July of last year. Answering an MP’s question, she stated that Bulgaria would continue to very clearly defend its position, language, culture, and identity. “We want to show very clearly in front of the Republic ...

Commenting on the case concerning the waving of the Greater Albania flag in Tetovo during Kosovan PM Albin Kurti’s visit to Tetovo, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski stated that several persons had been located. As he added, the identity of the person waving the flag will be known in several days. Spasovski didn’t say whether the person was a citizen of ...

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has proclaimed September as Macedonian American Heritage Month in her state. As she points out, Macedonian immigration to the United States has been ongoing for over a century, culminating in significant populations estimated at over half a million Americans of Macedonian descent living in the United States, while Americans of Macedonian descent have contributed to the ...

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.

“The constitutional changes are part of the negotiating framework. The dynamism at which we will move on the integration depends on us,” PM Dimitar Kovacevski said on Thursday. According to him, the messages of European leaders are clear, while the Commission has no remarks about the constitutional changes. The PM expects VMRO- DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski to support the constitutional ...

The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) has opened a case concerning the 1.8-million-euro tender won by Eurovia in relation to the OSCE event in December. The SCPC didn’t comment on Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani’s stand that he didn’t know Eurovia was a DUI donor. It asked for other institutions, too, to voice a stand on that. The SCPC ...

The City of Skopje criticised on Thursday Council President Trajko Slaveski, saying he’d wilfully postponed the session which had been supposed to see a vote on projects of key importance to people in the capital. “Probably waiting from instructions from his party’s boss, Slaveski today blocked the equal development of the city he promoted himself by going door to door ...

No Supreme Court justice has applied in the race for a Judicial Council seat. The previous competition saw only Justice Nake Georgiev apply. Though he’d been elected as a member, he left the position in order for his son to be able to become a Criminal Court Judge. The resignation had been filed before he was sworn in in Parliament. ...

According to Alternative, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani’s stands in the statement in which he says that “the European front is open to all” are malicious. “With this statement, he wants to include Arjanit Hoxha’s party in the government and that way divide Albanians into those who are pro-EU and those who are anti-EU. Osmani’s approach through the phrase ‘Who is ...

European Council President Charles Michel’s initiative for EU enlargement in 2030 will have its first test on 5 October, at the informal Summit in Granada. EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi said on Thursday that the European Commission would table substantive proposals in direction of achieving genuine, not only institutional, integration. He declined to say whether the 2030 timing was real. ...