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Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic is more optimistic than Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani when it comes to Bulgaria’s stand on Skopje’s EU path. As he said on Monday, he believes that after the adoption of the constitutional changes, nobody, not even Bulgaria, will have the credibility to block North Macedonia’s EU integration. He’s adamant that there are talks ...

Sweden pledges for a merit-based process and strongly supports North Macedonia’s progress on that path, Kerstin Lundgren, Deputy Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, said on Monday, at the press-conference in Skopje’s legislative house following the meeting of the Steering Group for Democratic Development of the Parliament of Sweden, with MP Fadil Zendeli, the Chair on North Macedonia’s part. MPs who ...

The Defence Ministry has started the procedure to build statues honouring late defenders in Ljubotenski Bacila, Karpalak, and Vejce. “Considering the attempt by mayors of municipalities to which the initiative was submitted to politicise this initiative, Defence Minister Slavjanka Petrovska, wanting to preserve the life, work, and sacrifice of the killed defenders, has started procedure which does not require consent ...

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, North Macedonia’s Foreign Minister, Bujar Osmani, in a video address, opened on Monday the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference. “The Russian military aggression against Ukraine is the biggest test in terms of whether we can manage to achieve our common pledges. We’re witnessing constant violence, discrimination, and inequalities throughout the whole world. We’re seeing threats against freedom of ...

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.

On social media, PM and SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski has announced that his predecessor, Zoran Zaev, has returned to the party. However, as Kovacevski explained, Zaev has returned as part of the strategic team that will work on the country joining the EU. “Today’s coordination meeting of the strategic team is in this direction – for us to do everything, ...

Commenting on Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani’s comments the issue of new requirements by Bulgaria, made in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said on Saturday that the hard times for the country were yet to come. However, as he added, those who accepted the annex to the Good-Neighbourliness Treaty should have thought about that. Mickoski ...

Commenting on PM Dimitar Kovacevski’s stand regarding amendments to the Pardon Draft-Law, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski asked on Friday whether the PM read texts of draft-laws adopted at Government sessions. For now, it’s still not known how the potential adoption will affect Haki Aziri and Fejzi Aziri, convicted to nine and 15 years in prison in the Monster case (which ...

According to Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, there should be an improvement and increase of prison capacities instead of adoption of the Pardon Draft-Law. As he said on Saturday, it’s a bad time to adopt the law, while the scope of persons that will be covered will not have the desired effect and result in improvement of prison conditions. “A strategic ...

In an interview with Radio Free Europe, BESA leader Bilall Kasami says his party’s MPs will not support the constitutional changes until the term “Albanian language” replaces the so-called 20% wording. As he adds, it’s a joint stand of the opposition from the ethnic Albanian bloc that the replacement needs to be made. “Until the Government sees no interests to ...