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On Monday, the EU Ambassador to Macedonia, Samuel Zbogar, said he expected the huge progress made by Macedonia in 2018 to be noted in the EC Report. Zbogar is convinced that a start of negotiations will be recommended in the document. As he added, the decision to open negotiations is made by EU members on the basis of the Report. ...

Though it’s been five days since MP Pavle Bogoevski turned himself in to the police and confirmed the authenticity of the audio recording, in which, according to him, he is ordering cannabis oil, not cocaine, the case still hasn’t been resolved from a legal standpoint. The Interior Ministry submitted on Monday the notification to the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office (BPO) ...

On Monday, the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) called on the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office (BPO) to drop the charge against journalist Tomislav Kezarovski, following the Supreme Court’s decision to annul the verdict in the Liqudation case and return it for retrial. According to the AJM, a withdrawal of the charge will show that the BPO acts independently and ...

  “Today, we’re ready both politically and institutionally. We firmly believe we deserve a merit-based decision and believe that the EU, too, will deliver,” PM Zoran Zaev said on Monday, within the frameworks of the Vienna Economic Forum. The PM expects the country to get a date to start membership negotiations because it has shown how long-lasting problems can be ...

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 ...

Parliament’s Committee on Mandatory-Immunity Issues will reportedly not debate the issue of former PM Nikola Gruevski’s MP mandate. According to reports, MP Pavle Bogoevski, Chairperson of the Committee, announced there would be a session but afterwards said he would schedule it after the end of the session of the Defence Committee at which amendments to the laws concerning the new ...

On Friday, President Stevo Pendarovski signed the Decrees for promulgation of the Law on Courts, Law on Administrative Disputes, Law on Misdemeanours and Law on Changing and Amending the Law on Organisation and Operation of the State Administration Bodies. It’s about systemic Laws that Pendarovski’s predecessor, Gjorge Ivanov, had been refusing to sign. Pendarovski’s Cabinet stated that the President had ...

Within the frameworks of his visit to Tallinn, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov was received by Estonian PM Juri Ratas and held a meeting with his counterpart, Urmas Reinsalu. The Dimitrov-Ratas meeting focused on issues related to Macedonia’s road to European integration, process to complete the procedure for full-fledged NATO membership and potential to enrich the Skopje-Tallinn bilateral cooperation. Dimitrov’s meeting ...

The so-called broom process is still being prepared. PM Zoran Zaev still hasn’t met DUI leader Ali Ahmeti and other coalition partners, Telma TV reports. According to Ahmeti’s party, a Zaev-Ahmeti meeting hasn’t even been scheduled, disregarding the short contact an event concerning ecology, the TV station adds. SDSM explains that the analysis of the work that’s been done, which ...

French Ambassador Christian Thimonier paid a visit to Gostivar, where he attended a Francophonie event and met Mayor Arben Taravari. At the meeting, Taravari and the Ambassador talked about improving the cooperation. Answering a journalist’s question about Macedonia’s road to the EU, Thimonier said it wasn’t just political marketing. “A start of negotiations will be good also for us, the ...