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After the municipality of Gradsko on Saturday, the VMRO-DPMNE’s renewal talks with the citizens from Veles continued on Sunday, where they noted all shortcomings by SDSM in the local and central government. “Such project is the closed market, such project is the ring road around the city, perhaps the only thing they managed to do is close down the pool, ...

VMRO-DPMNE President, Hristijan Mickoski met with Robert Benjamin, National Democratic Institute’s (NDI) Director for Central and Eastern Europe, Paul McCarthy, IRI Regional Director for Europe and Russian Ambassador, Sergej Bazdnikin on Friday. Topics of discussion were the current political happenings in the county, the upcoming early Parliamentary elections and the Macedonia Euro-Atlantic perspective. VMRO-DPMNE’s Leader pointed out that the integration ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry 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 ...

  At the marking of the 15th anniversary of the formation of the Association of Providers of Communal Services, there were open discussions an all problems. There were calls for all aspects and harmful consequences in relation to the start of the implementation of Green Markets Law to be considered. Among the other topics discussed were also communal enterprises’ debts ...

According to unofficial information of Telma TV, Dane Taleski will be Macedonia’s new Ambassador to NATO. At Thursday’s session for parliamentary questions, VMRO-DPMNE MP Antonio Milososki asked PM Zoran Zaev to say whether it was true there would be four new Ambassadors: Teuta Arifi to the US, Taleski to NATO, Sasko Nasev to Bulgaria and Miso Dogmanovic to Israel. The ...

The US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Philip Reeker, is critical of the view certain EU leaders have, following the developments to a date for membership negotiations. “We were disappointed. Secretary Pompeo made that very clear, that the European Council could not move forward to begin the accession talks both for North Macedonia and for ...

According to the US Secretary of State’s Special Representative for the Western Balkans, Matthew Palmer, his country will clearly be telling European partners that Macedonia’s place is in the EU. As he said after Thursday’s meeting with PM Zoran Zaev, US support for Macedonia’s European integration and European perspective has been confirmed. “That’s something that we’ve made clear here in ...

According to French Ambassador Christian Thimonier, it’s now up to European Union leaders to discuss a change of the rules of the game and up to the country to fulfil certain things. Asked on Thursday whether his country would change its stand on enlargement before the next Summit in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, the Ambassador said the country should ...

SYRIZA MP and former Greek Foreign Minister Georgios Katrougalos welcomed the statements during the National Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee by Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias about “the importance of the full and consistent respect for the Prespa Agreement”, as well as the statement by New Democracy MP Dora Bakoyannis “who called on Dendias to take initiatives to support the deal”. ...

The trial over the Titanic case continued on Tuesday. Jadranka Galevska, former Chief of the Administrative Matters Department, said in her testimony in the Titanic case that IDs would be issued illegally, adding that most of them would end up in municipalities where then-ruling VMRO-DPMNE had had the lowest rating. According to Galevska, together with chiefs from other municipalities, she ...