Author Archives: Sasko Golov

Osmani: New Parliamentary Majority Will Be Formalized Next Week

“The new stable majority in the Parliament is indisputable and it will be announced next week,” said Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani at the joint press conference in Skopje with the Austrian Minister of European and International Affairs Michael Linhart. According to him, the most important thing is that the Republic of North Macedonia did not allow itself to be part ...

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Health Ministry’s Latest COVID Data

In the last 24 hours, 493 new COVID-19 cases have been registered, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. It was added that the same period had seen 2,911 new tests, 532 new recovered patients, and 23 new deaths. The total number of COVID-diagnosed persons in the country since the beginning of the epidemic is 210,938, the number of recovered patients ...

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“Status Quo” on Political Scene: Outcome of Talks with Alternative Awaited

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski does not deviate from the request for quick elections as a solution to the political deadlock and the current situation in the Parliament. In response to the government’s announcements for increasing the parliamentary majority and whether there is an option for opposition MPs to come to power, Mickoski said that the people will decide ...

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Sekerinska: EU Will Not Push for Negotiations with Unstable Government

The Minister of Defence Radmila Sekerinska says that there are two halves as in football, in relation to the new government in the country and the announced EU integration. “If we do not have a government with full capacity, if we have a situation fall – get up, no one in the EU will care and push for a solution ...

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Zaev: North Macedonia Shares Values with NATO

“In the year when we mark 30 years of independent state, the Republic of North Macedonia as an equal partner in the most powerful security and political alliance – NATO shares the values ​​of the Alliance, and as a candidate for EU membership accepted and promoted European values ​​as a result of freely expressed will of the people and through ...

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Joint Declaration Signed with NATO

With the signing of the joint declaration by the Commander of the NATO Supreme Allied Command Transformation General Philippe Lavigne and the Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Vasko Gjurcinovski officially completed the process of military integration of the Republic of Macedonia in the command structures and the Alliance. The ceremony for signing the joint declaration, in Villa Vodno, was ...

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Alternative to Decide Next Week on Possibly Joining Government

Alternative’s central presidency will decide on Tuesday whether the party will become part of Zaev’s government and whether it will strengthen the government majority with their four lawmakers, the party told Kanal 5 after leader Afrim Gashi accepted Prime Minister Zaev’s offer to sit down and discuss this option. There will be no information when the meeting will take place, ...

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Completion of Osmani’s Working Visit to Brussels

In continuation of the two-day intensive agenda of the working visit to Brussels, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bujar Osmani, also met with the Co-Chair of the EU-MK Joint Parliamentary Committee, Andreas Schieder, as well as with the Rapporteur for Macedonia, Ilhan Kyuchyuk. The inevitable topic of the meetings was the latest internal political events in the country, but the ...

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Sekerinska Hopeful with New Bulgarian Government

“It is encouraging that a possible new government in Bulgaria says we need a new approach. We will have the same spirit of good neighbourliness, openness and the same desire to find solutions and move forward. If there is half of that spirit on the Bulgarian side, as we see these days, it is possible to see a turnaround. Definitely ...

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Analysis: Consolidation of Majority Uncertain

Negotiations for the formation of a new parliament are currently only on an unofficial level. Alternative, which seems to be the key to stabilizing and consolidating the ruling majority, told Kanal 5 that so far, they have not received an official offer from SDSM, but do not rule out the possibility of negotiations with the ruling parties, although they claim ...

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