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At a press-conference on Monday, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev said annulling the Prespa deal with Greece would be dangerous and take the country 25 years back. Though he doesn’t believe VMRO-DPMNE will win these elections and, even less, get a two-thirds majority to change the deal, Zaev stated that citizens should now what would happen if that took place. “Is ...

Representatives of SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE, Bojan Maricic and Timco Mucunski, respectively, will hold a meeting on Tuesday to agree new dynamism of talks on the new Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) law, it’s been confirmed by senior sources from the two parties. Despite the idea for a meeting between leaders Zoran Zaev and Hristijan Mickoski, the former said on Monday that ...

On Monday, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, accompanied by his party’s International Cooperation Secretary, Bojan Maricic, held a meeting with French Ambassador Christian Thimonier. They talked about the current political situation, the work of the caretaker government, and the road to EU membership. According to Zaev, the messages that have arrived over the past days by EU representatives show that the ...

Prosecutor Lile Stefanova didn’t testify on Monday in the frames of the trial over the Extortion case because the hearing was postponed. The decision to postpone it was made because ex-Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva’s two lawyers weren’t present. Deljo Kadiev is hospitalised, while Irena Frckoska didn’t submit medical documentation, but rather just reported she wasn’t able to attend due to ...

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 ...