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The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan has officially accepted the invitation by Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski to visit Macedonia, during their meeting in Sarajevo at the Summit of the Process for Cooperation of South-East Europe. During the meeting, Erdogan and Pendarovski spoke about the bilateral relations between Macedonia and Turkey, with Erdogan confirming that Turkey supports Macedonia’s integration in ...

Shekerim Ahmeti, also known as El Cheka, sends via Facebook profile a terrorist threat at PM Zoran Zaev. “If you do not start an international investigation over the shootings in Divo Naselje from 2015, be sure that the entire scenario will be repeated in the very centre of Skopje. There must be justice for all innocent Albanians which are currently ...

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski says he is ready to renegotiate with the new Greek government for possible changes to the Prespa Agreement. “We are ready to re-evaluate and improve all positions which the PM Zoran Zaev was blackmailed to give up on. I stand in defence of the Macedonian name and identity and I am sure that, once ...

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

The Macedonian PM Zoran Zaev spoke on the phone with Kyriakos Mitsotakis, after he won the parliamentary election in Greece and officially assumed the office of Prime Minister of Greece. “We jointly voiced hope for continuing the cooperation between North Macedonia and Greece, looking forward to our first meeting as prime ministers. I reaffirmed that Greece is our strategic partner ...

The PM Zoran Zaev met on Monday in the Government the French Ambassador to Macedonia Christian Thimonier. As the governmental press service reports, Zaev and Thimonier spoke about Macedonia’s integration in the EU, with Thimonier reiterating the French support for Macedonia, and once again accented the importance of implementation of reforms. “We are strongly dedicated to the reforms in the ...

The Basic Public Prosecution (PPO) filed a bill of indictment against the former President of the Criminal Court in Skopje Vladimir Pancevski, charging him for abuse of his official position and manipulation with the AKMIS system for distribution of court cases among judges. According to PPO, Pancevski between January 2013 and September 2016 influenced the system by ordering court employees ...

The further delaying of the start of membership talks between EU and Albania and North Macedonia poses a serious risk over the political situation in the West Balkans, said the Chairwoman of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Majlinda Bregu at the 11th annual meeting of RCC in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Any further delays of this decision may destroy all ...

The Vice-PM and Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska and her Montenegrin counterpart Predrag Boskovic visited on Monday the Krivolak military training grounds of the Macedonian Army. “We showed that the regional cooperation is very useful for all of us. Decisive Strike will be one of the greatest army exercises ever conducted in Macedonia, and thanks to it we managed to improve ...

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski met on Monday the Dutch Ambassador to Macedonia Willem Wouter Plomp. As they inform from VMRO-DPMNE, Mickoski informed Plomp that the current government lack will and capacity of political dialogue for adoption of reforms necessary for Macedonia’s integration in the EU. “I spoke with my interlocutor about the lack of ability and will in ...