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On Wednesday, Parliament passed the Law on Management of Confiscated Property, Property Gain, and Seized Objects in Criminal and Misdemeanour Proceedings. The goal is to enable a swift and efficient procedure that will see property confiscated through an effective court decision successfully sold and a recovery of the criminally-acquired assets and property. As the Justice Ministry said on Wednesday, the ...

Parliament has passed the Pardon Law, proposed by the Justice Ministry. Now, the President can only pardon a person if they are sentenced, not if they are criminally prosecuted. As the Ministry pointed out on Wednesday, during the preparation of the text, multiple comparative experiences were considered, such as laws from legal systems in EU members and in countries with ...

The VLEN coalition said on Wednesday a series of symptomatic moves by DUI’s leadership, together with the ODIHR Report about potential risks for the elections, raised suspicions about the intentions of “the desperate losers”, who would become an opposition party after so many years. “First, Ali Ahmeti, in February in Kosovo, said now was not the time for a President ...

On Wednesday morning, five new pertussis cases were registered in Skopje. The controls by the State Sanitary and Health Inspectorate to check whether there is compliance with the decision banning children who aren’t fully vaccinated from going to kindergarten have continued. Regarding the ambiguities regarding the decision on vaccination, Health Minister Ilir Demiri said everything would be clarified on Thursday, ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on wet roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the ...

On Tuesday, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Gabriel Escobar, commented on North Macedonia’s EU path. “I want to start by saying that both North Macedonia and Bulgaria are valued NATO members and Allies. And so, we want a peaceful resolution of any issues, but we encourage dialogue between North Macedonia and Bulgaria to ...

VMRO-DPMNE’s Mile Lefkov held on Tuesday another press-conference where he criticised President Stevo Pendarovski, who’s a candidate for a second term. At the press-conference, an excerpt from an interview Pendarovski had with a TV station on 18 January 2022 was played in which the President says Bulgaria’s stand on constitutional changes represents interference in North Macedonia’s internal affairs. However, as ...

Ex-Transport and Communications Minister Mile Janakieski will be released on parole on 17 June 2024 instead of next year, on 16 January, as the preliminary decision foresaw. He was sentenced to 3.5 years for election irregularities in the Titanic case. The Criminal Court will decide whether ex-secret police chief Saso Mijalkov, sentenced to three years in prison for money laundering ...

Commenting on GRECO’s Fourth Evaluation Round Second Addendum to the 2nd Compliance Report, the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office says North Macedonia has satisfactorily implemented the majority of recommendations concerning corruption in respect of public prosecutors. Also, the Office adds GRECO welcomed the adoption of the changes to the Code of Ethics explicitly referring to the notion of “hospitality” as a ...

How to achieve full autocephaly of the Ohrid Archdiocese and keep believers, the fall of moral values, and religion’s influence on modern courses were among the topics debated by professors and Archdiocese members at a debate at the Faculty of Philosophy on Tuesday. Marjan Gjurovski, Professor at the Faculty, said Russian influence had infiltrated the Archdiocese, adding that there might ...