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A new conversation has appeared on a Russian social network on which Government Sec Gen Dragi Raskovski can be heard talking to some people about procuring a flight control system. On the 15-minute audio, posted on the Expres portal, another two persons can be heard. It is written that they’re an M-NAV board President and a representative of an Italian ...

“We’re focused on October. We’ve shown European conduct towards the region, towards the neighbourhood, we’re building bridges. At home, we have had an unbelievable democratic turnaround in the last two years. I think we’re absolutely ready to start the accession process. We’re not ready for membership, but we want to be using the process as a democratic tool to become ...

At Friday’s session for parliamentary questions, PM Zoran Zaev said an investigation had been opened over the allegations of racketeering, blackmails and money for the so-called Koki and Kiki, pseudonyms for an owner of a TV station and a politician from the Government. Answering a question asked by VMRO-DPMNE’s Antonio Milososki, the PM added that the target of the two ...

Good driving conditions on mainly dry roads. Intensity of traffic outside urban areas increased. No long delays on border-crossings for exiting the country. From 25 June the road in Dracevo by the railway near village of Lisice will be closed for one week due to laying a new layer of asphalt. Regional road Caska-Goloznici will be temporarily closed due to ...

Good driving conditions on mainly dry roads. Intensity of traffic outside urban areas increased. No long delays on border-crossings for exiting the country. From 25 June the road in Dracevo by the railway near village of Lisice will be closed for one week due to laying a new layer of asphalt. Regional road Caska-Goloznici will be temporarily closed due to ...

The former Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski was arrested on Thursday morning in Budapest and was taken before a court, which was deciding upon the request for his extradition to Macedonia filed by the Macedonian Justice Ministry. The hearing was conducted behind closed doors, in presence of Gruevski, who was cuffed due to security reasons, and the court ultimately decided to ...

The Parliament of Macedonia proceeded on Thursday with the session dedicated to the cabinet reshuffle suggested by PM Zoran Zaev. The session focuses on PM Zaev’s suggestions for new Ministers in the positions which are now vacant in the government. Zaev’ suggestions for the vacant positions are: Sadulla Duraku as Minister of Political System and Inter-ethnic Relations, Naser Nuredini as ...

The focus of attention on Macedonia’s integration in EU and start of membership negotiations has now shifted to France, after official Berlin assured that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will do all in her power to convince the Bundestag to approve the start of EU membership talks with Macedonia. The Parliamentary Assistant at the French Senate Christian Castagna says that at ...

The Vice-PM and Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska attends in Brussels the meeting of Defence Ministers of the member-states of NATO. At the sidelines of the meeting, Sekerinska met with her counterparts from several countries: Elisabetta Trenta from Italy, Margarita Robles Fernandez from Spain, Ank Bijleveld from the Netherlands, Frank Bakke-Jensen from Norway and Mariusz Błaszczak from Poland. At these meetings, ...

The Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki said in an interview for Bulgarian web portal Epicentar.bg that Goce Delcev is Bulgarian and that the state of Macedonia is in fact a second Bulgarian state in the Balkans. “There was no Macedonian state or nation before 2 August 1944. On that day, a bunch of Bulgarian Bolsheviks and traitors gathered in the cellar ...