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The US State Department told RFE Macedonian on Friday that it condemned Cinna’s pressure on MPs not to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) Summit in Taiwan in its attempts, as it stated, to isolate the self-governing island. “We are concerned by reports that MPs were pressed by the People’s Republic of China not to attend the conference,” it ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on dry 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 road conditions. ...

On Wednesday, PM Hristijan Mickoski said he was not giving up on the idea for disbanding the Judicial Council as a reform and disbanding the Council of Public Prosecutors. “I am waiting for proposals. I am desperately begging for proposals in order for citizens’ confidence in the judiciary not to be at a level of 2%, in order for criminals ...

At the July 30 US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearing, James O’Brien, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, was asked by Senator Jeanne Shaheen what more the US could do to encourage Europeans to make good on the promise to Western Balkan countries that had implemented required reforms, without changing rules or conditions for moving forward towards ...

On Wednesday, Justice Minister Igor Filkov said he’d signed off on requests for extradition of Alil Demiri and Afrim Ismailovic, both sentenced to life in prison in the trial over the Monster case, which concerns the 2012 Smiljkovci killings.  The requests have already been submitted to the Kosovan Justice Ministry. The previous extradition requests were sent in 2018. Requests had ...

Despite the criticism of the idea, VLEN is not giving up on forming an ethnic Albanian academy of sciences and arts. On Wednesday, it called for support for its pre-election promise, adding it would end discrimination of intellectuals from the ethnic Albanian community in science. “The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts is not an inclusive institution in which there ...

The Steering Committee held on Wednesday a session over the wildfire situation. A decision was made to make a recommendation to the Government for the NATO mechanism to be activated. Crisis Management Centre Director Stojance Angelov said on Wednesday that though it basically offered the same things as the EU’s Civil Protection Mechanism, through it, North Macedonia would be able ...

On Wednesday, SDSM said again that the new government was failing when it came to the wildfire situation. As a result, the party believes, Interior Minister Pance Toskovski should be removed from the Steering Committee. In response, PM Hristijan Mickoski asked what the previous government had done in the field of crisis management. “We inherited three dysfunctional planes and three ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on dry 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 road conditions. ...

European Affairs Minister Orhan Murtezani said on Tuesday he expected funds from the first tranche of the Growth Plan to come in the second half of September. “On 14 July, the Government adopted the draft-version, together with the accompanying elements of the Reform Agenda. It was sent to the European Commission for internal consultations. Return commentaries should arrive by 31 ...