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At the May Summit in Zagreb, Croatia will pay special attention to unblocking a start of negotiations with Macedonia and Albania, according to Croatian PM Andrej Plenkovic. Presenting the priorities of his country’s EU Presidency at the meeting of the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union, held in the Croatian capital on Monday, ...

Poor driving conditions are reported throughout the country on mostly wet roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE aren’t ruling out the possibility of a meeting between their leaders, Zoran Zaev and Hristijan Mickoski, respectively, over the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) law issue. However, that will happen only if the working groups approximate their positions. Zaev said on Saturday SDSM is ready to change even the latest text if the opposition makes constructive proposals. He ...

Additional Deputy Minister of Agriculture Cvetan Tripunovski’s unannounced visit to the Ministry’s Regional Unit in Berovo, recorded with a camera by a person accompanying him, has sparked a lot of reactions. On Saturday, the Ministry distanced itself from the activity. “These actions are not a practice of the Ministry’s functioning, but rather a personal act of Tripunovski with which we ...

  Caretaker PM Oliver Spasovski, in an interview with MIA, says that the current caretaker Cabinet is significantly different than the one in 2016, which, as he explains, aimed to free, to some extent, the atmosphere in the country so that the citizens were able to make a free decision in the elections. Now, he points out, when the country ...

The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) will ask institutions to strengthen activities against corruption. With the five-year National Strategy, it will give advice about, among other activities, creating waste management centres as soon as possible, revising urban plans adopted by municipalities, and strengthening controls during public procurements. According to SCPC President Biljana Ivanovska, the realisation of the Strategy’s ...

The slow procedures in Spain’s Parliament mean that it will take a longer period of time to ratify Macedonia’s NATO Protocol. Caretaker PM Oliver Spasovski and Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska are aware of that. The latter expects the process this week. Spain was the last to ratify Montenegro’s Protocol, too. It completed the whole process in 4.5 months. The process ...

Poor driving conditions are reported throughout the country on mostly wet roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

Caretaker PM Oliver Spasovski held a meeting on Thursday with German Ambassador Thomas Gerberich. Skopje and Berlin have excellent bilateral relations, they assessed. Spasovski thanked the Ambassador for Germany’s continued support, especially in the field of the efforts to join the EU and NATO. Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi’s visit brought moderate optimism about a positive decision of the Union for ...

The international presentation of Croatia’s EU Presidency was marked at Europe House in Skopje on Wednesday.  Ambassador Nives Tiganj, who presented the Presidency, said Croatia was aware of all challenges and opportunities on Macedonia’s road to EU membership. “It perhaps seems that the achievement of your goal for membership is covered by challenges and obstacles, but as a dear friend ...