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On Tuesday, the working group adopted the Electoral Code changes. However, it failed to adjust stands on political advertising. The Media Agency had proposed for there to be no political advertising, unlike the Statue Audit Office. The changes concern also funding of parties and protection of the right to vote, on the basis of OSCE/ODIHR recommendations. The draft-changes had previously ...

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) regarding the EU Ambassadors Conference 2023, EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi wrote on Tuesday: “EU enlargement became our strategic reply to bring peace, stability & prosperity in a fragmented world”. In the same post, the Commissioner mentions the issue of offering a credible accession path. “We have to offer a credible accession path ...

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 evacuation of the two North Macedonia nationals, that is, the married couple that’s still in Gaza has been delayed, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said on Monday. The reason for that is the bombing of the Rafah crossing and its temporary closure for evacuation of foreign nationals. According to Osmani, a third North Macedonia national is in Gaza, too, but ...

DUI Vice-President Bujar Osmani is unfazed by VMRO-DPMNE’s position that Hristijan Mickoski’s party will not enter a coalition with Ali Ahmeti and that it’s time for DUI to become an opposition party. As he said, Zoran Zaev too had been saying that before the last elections, but he nonetheless formed a coalition with DUI. According to him, VMRO-DPMNE ruling out ...

Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski told the Lokalno portal on Monday that local authorities hadn’t issued any permit for the KLA memorial complex in Sopot. “There is a strict procedure, defined according to the law, about how a museum or memorial is opened. Currently, I don’t have information, nor has someone contacted the Municipality to request any permit,” he stated. Regarding ...

VMRO-DPMNE suspects that DUI’s campaign will see nationalist provocations to avoid crime-related topics. “Whenever DUI is caught stealing, they always turn to national topics, that is, to nationalism and chauvinism. DUI’s already campaigning. In the period ahead, there will be provocations like these. The greater the nationalist provocations, be aware that again, some tender is solved at a tete-a-tete and ...

“The Judicial Council functions and works to protect judges. For those reasons and motives, it’s our duty and we requested a meeting to talk to Supreme Court President Besa Ademi,” Council President Sasko Georgiev said on Monday. The Council, he added, is at the disposal of any judge in terms of opening that discussion and putting itself in the function ...

University professor Jadranka Dabovic-Anastasovska has been nominated by SDSM to become part of the Constitutional Court, as a result of the expiration of the retired Jovan Josifovski’s term at the start of last year. On Monday, opposition MPs didn’t want the agenda to be determined because, as they said, they received an invitation late on Friday afternoon and didn’t have ...

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.