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Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on somewhat wet roadways. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Macedonia advises careful management of vehicles, respect for posted traffic signals, and adjustment of speed according to road conditions. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE’s on-call teams are constantly on-site and keep all roads ...

It’s normal for those parties that will nominate ministers and deputy ministers for the caretaker cabinet to vote in favour of that cabinet, PM Dimitar Kovacevski, who will resign on Thursday, has assessed. As he said on Monday, there is time until Sunday for all procedures. On Wednesday, VMRO-DPMNE’s Executive Committee will hold a meeting which is expected to see ...

Asked in Skopje on Monday whether the international factor was pressuring for a non-paper to be signed obliging parties from the ethnic Albanian bloc not to enter a coalition with parties that wouldn’t complete the constitutional changes in the six-month period after the elections, James O’Brien, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs said he didn’t know ...

The blacklist is part of a broader strategy to fight corruption, while the US expects that there will be a change in behaviour of the designated persons. That was the message sent on Monday in Skopje by James O’Brien, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs regarding the blacklist. “Our goal is to see a change in ...

At Monday’s leaders’ meeting on the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans, Kosovan PM Albin Kurti, without discussing political issues and relations with Belgrade, said that his country would present a list of concrete projects in the coming days. As he pointed out, the main reforms Kosovo will focus on are public administration and public finance management. Regarding projects, he ...

Aleksandar Gjorcevski, the father of Vanja Gjorcevska, the girl killed in November of last year, will remain in detention. On Monday, the Criminal Court rejected his defence’s request to replace the detention measure with a house arrest one. Gjorcevski was arrested at the start of December, after the other suspects said he had been giving information to the principal suspect, ...

VMRO-DPMNE has made new accusations over the case concerning the grant, worth over 600,000 euros, received, as part of the NGO sector, by the wives of Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Fatmir Bytyqi and Intelligence Agency Director Erold Musliu. On Monday, MP Dragan Kovacki stated that five days after the money transfer, a change had been made in the Central ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on somewhat wet roadways. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Macedonia advises careful management of vehicles, respect for posted traffic signals, and adjustment of speed according to road conditions. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE’s on-call teams are constantly on-site and keep all roads ...

According to PM and SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski, the future, caretaker, PM-designate, Talat Xhaferi, should form a cabinet that will see the positions for VMRO-DPMNE vacant. As he said on Friday, they should be filled once Hristijan Mickoski’s party decides to support the caretaker cabinet. In response, VMRO-DPMNE said it was up to the government whether it would choose to ...

It’s still uncertain whether Alliance for Albanians will enter the European Alliance for Changes coalition, consisting of BESA, Alternative, and Democratic Movement. The coalition’s position is that there is communication with Arben Taravari’s party, stressing that the door for it to join for the elections this year remains open. “The invitation we sent before New Year’s is still open. The ...