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The Public Revenue Office (PRO) has indications that the companies of Bojan Jovanovski, suspect in the Racketeering case, and ones close to him evaded around 330,000 euros in tax. The PRO has found BMJ Media Group, International Alliance and Tomato Production evaded tax. The institution has conducted control at 1TV, too. At International Alliance, which was headed by Jovanovski, it ...

  The conclusions of Finland’s EU Presidency didn’t pass at this night’s meeting of Ambassadors in Luxembourg, Telma TV reported on Monday, citing sources from the Macedonian Government with information about developments at the meetings. This means that France’s proposal to give a date for a start of negotiations with Macedonia and, in the meantime, a change of the methodology ...

Finland’s EU Presidency will propose a start of accession of talks with Macedonia and, in the meantime, adoption of a new methodology for negotiations, on which France is insistent, it’s been found out from sources from the Government. The Inter-Governmental Conference would be held “in the first half of 2020 at the latest”. The new methodology, which will cover all ...

PM Zoran Zaev remains optimistic that Macedonia will get a date to start accession talks. “17 and 18 October will be the final dates. I am an optimist. We have all the arguments in the world to get a date,” he said on Monday. According to the PM, France isn’t against a date for Macedonia, but rather legitimately intends to ...

In a joint open letter, Tomas Petricek, Czech FM, Peter Szijjarto, Hungarian FM, Jacek Czaputowicz, Polish FM, and Miroslav Lajcak, Slovak FM, call for accession talks with Macedonia and Albania. “The decision by the European Union over whether to launch accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania comes at a time the bloc is facing numerous challenges. However, the issues ...

  No progress was made at the Ambassadors’ meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. Paris believes that more time is needed for a reform of the negotiations process for candidate countries and additional proof of the fight against corruption and judicial independence in both Albania and Macedonia. “France constantly brings back to the table the issue of solving the status of ...

Sunday night saw a working dinner between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. According to the announcements, they had been supposed to talk, among other things, about the issue of a start of negotiations for Macedonia, following the Bundestag’s approval. Before the start of the working dinner, primarily dedicated to the preparation of the future joint meeting ...

Balkan hopes of starting accession negotiations with the European Union hang in the balance, as France insists the bloc is not yet ready to discuss the possibility of accepting new members, documents exchanged between diplomatic missions in Brussels show, Bloomberg said on Sunday. “North Macedonia and Albania are keen for a green light this week to start formal talks to ...

France wants to make a proposal for a new methodology in the EU accession talks next week in Luxembourg, which could see the decision to open negotiations for Albania and Macedonia delayed a third time, Reuters has found out from diplomatic sources in Brussels, it was reported on Thursday. Though that is not an official position for now, Paris has ...

On Friday, French Ambassador Christian Thimonier stated that Macedonia belonged to the European family. As he added, dates ore one thing, but the principles matter. “If there’s something that we, all European representatives, are united over, it’s that the place of the Republic of North Macedonia, after all efforts, but also the reforms that should be made, is among us. ...