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The trial over the Titanic case continued on Thursday. The continuation saw wire-tapped materials of Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) played. In 15 short audio materials, the ex-Minister of Transport and Communications, Mile Janakieski, and the former PM Cabinet Chief, Martin Protugjer, are making a plan for ambassadors to go from house to house in the United States, Australia and European ...

On Thursday, PM Zoran Zaev met with Dutch Ambassador Wouter Plomp. Support was expressed at the meeting for the policies leading towards Euro-Atlantic integrations for Macedonia. “I expect the majority of citizens to vote in favour of a Euro-Atlantic future of the Republic of Macedonia in the coming referendum,” Zaev said. It’s very important for each citizen and political stakeholder ...

Association of Journalists President Naser Selmani and Director Dragan Sekulovski held meetings on Wednesday and Thursdday with diplomats accredited in Skopje. They met French Ambassador Christian Thimonier, Dutch Ambassador Wouter Plomp, Lukas Holub of the EU Delegation to Macedonia and Paul Graddon of the US Embassy in Macedonia. At all meetings, Selmani said he was very worried about the latest ...

Each VMRO-DPMNE candidate for the post of MP, mayor or council will need to deposit their resignation before taking office. It will be activated if they leave to another party or decide to act independently. This is one of the potential solutions to ensure party loyalty, envisaged by the party’s new Statute, about which the municipal committees have the most ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on wet roads. Motorists are generally advised to drive carefully, adjust their speed according to the weather conditions and respect road signalization. Landslides are possible along the roads of Kocani-Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar-Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo-Veles, Krusevo-Demir Hisar and Resen – ...

Through the web application 862 applications by citizens for voting at Macedonia’s diplomatic-consular missions abroad were filed by 2 pm on Wednesday. 836 have been accepted, 19 have been rejected, while the rest are being processed. Most of the applications were filed for voting in Bern, 72, London, 69, Toronto, 57, Ljubljana, 48, and Canberra, 36. Until Tuesday, 1,967 citizens ...

PM Zoran Zaev met on Wednesday representatives of Macedonia’s diaspora in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the United States, Slovenia Croatia and Luxembourg. Support was expressed for the government’s policies for Macedonia’s EU and NATO membership. The meeting focused on several current issues, including the importance of the name referendum and the need for proactive role from all citizens, the diaspora included, ...

Drawing parallels between the movement for boycotting the name referendum, Bojkotiram (I’m boycotting), and the Colourful Revolution is the same as putting an equals sign between courage and fear, between the active citizen who dared to start to see in the dark and the passive obedient citizens who are afraid to open their eyes when there is light, FM Nikola ...

NATO membership is a chance for a safe region and calm citizens, Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska and the Deputy Ambassador of the United States, Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, said during Wednesday’s visit to Krivolak, answering a journalist’s question about the latest security challenges, especially those regarding new border changes in the Balkans. Since its independence, the Minister pointed out, Macedonia has paid ...

On Wednesday, VMRO-DPMNE criticised the government over the developments related to the case concerning dismissed Public Security Bureau Director Laze Velkovski. “Political responsibility is pointless without legal responsibility, i.e. Velkovski and Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, as his superior, must be held also criminally responsible due to the already admitted and established abuse of official duty,” the party pointed out. SDSM ...