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Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska, who heads the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption, issued on Monday an order to the Interior Ministry for central and international warrants to be issued for ex-PM Nikola Gruevski, who is in Hungary, and former Security and Counter-Intelligence Administration employee Nikola Boskoski, who is in Greece. The two persons are among ...

The house arrest measure for Jordan Kamcev, Cvetan Pandelevski and Nenad Josifovic, suspects in the Empire case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), has been annulled as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision accepting the suspects’ appeals. The Court’s legal opinion about the SPO’s 18-month mandate was used as an argument in the appeals. The institution headed by ...

Members of the EP’s Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) have called on EU countries to start accession talks with Macedonia and Albania. The message of the AFET delegation is that both Albania and North Macedonia have done their homework, necessary for a start of accession negotiations. In the press-release, it is said that 2019 is key for the two countries because ...

The State Election Commission (SEC) President, Oliver Derkoski, said on Monday an early start of the presidential campaign by some presidential candidate hadn’t been registered. Candidates should be confirmed by the SEC by 21 March. Until then, all activities of candidates will be considered party meetings instead of an unofficial start of the campaign, which will officially begin on 1 ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Mid-intensity snowing is going to happen around Krusevo, Mavrovo, Struga and the mountain passes Gjavato and Pletvar, and with lesser intensity around Straza, Preseka, Debar and Kicevo. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, ...

Stevo Pendarovski is the joint presidential candidate supported by 31 parties led by SDSM and the ruling coalition. PM Zoran Zaev described on Friday the decision was historic, adding that “Macedonians, Serbs, Turks, Vlachs, Romani, Bosniaks and everyone else” had once again united. According to him, 31 political parties have shown national interests are above party ones. “All of us ...

On Sunday, VMRO-DPMNE’s Union of Women held its Annual Conference. “Unfortunately or fortunately, the battle for an identity isn’t over because one cannot erase a people with a pen,” Blagica Lasovska, President of the Union, said, adding that the identity was deeply rooted. In that regard, she pointed out that the identity would outlive “these injustices”. VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski ...

FM Nikola Dimitrov delivered an address at the Fourth Delphi Economic Forum in Greece. “There is nothing more natural than our two countries being friends, being close, opening the future,” he said. As Dimitrov added, compared to his first visit to Athens on 14 June 2017, now, after the Prespa Agreement, he has more friends in Greece. On the sidelines ...

Judicial reforms and dealing with corruption are the key goals that the Government should achieve on its path to EU membership. The leader of the seven-member delegation of MEPs, Tunne Kelam, said on Friday that those were the main conditions for the European Council to make in June a decision on a start of accession negotiations. As he added, it’s ...

On Friday, Jess Baily’s term as US Ambassador to Macedonia officially ended. He left Skopje on Friday. In a tweet, he thanked the country for its hospitality, friendship and kindness. The US Embassy, on its official Facebook page, wrote: “This morning, Ambassador Baily officially ended his assignment to North Macedonia. From everyone at the Embassy, we thank him for his ...