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In an interview with MINA, Slovenian MEP Tanja Fajon says Germany and Slovenia have created a non-paper that foresees a minimisation of the possibility of vetoing and blockades on the EU path over bilateral issues with neighbouring countries. As she points out, that will speed up the pre-accession process. “We propose that vetoes and blockades over bilateral issues be minimised ...

The first EU-Western Balkans Summit since the start of the term of Antonio Costa as European Council President will be held on 18 December in Brussels. At the end of the meeting, EU Heads of State and Government will adopt a declaration, while alignment will be expected from Western Balkan leaders. The text will ascertain, among other things, that enlargement ...

At a press conference on Saturday, Foreign Minister Timco Mucunski said a procedure was underway against Ljubomir Frckoski, former Permanent Representative to the UN, over alleged misuse of taxpayer money. “There are serious indications that there was misuse of public budget funds. According to the indications, six-digit damage, in euros, was caused. I couldn’t say the exact amount. I am ...

“This morning, in a police operation in Struga and Gostivar, four people for whom there’s reasonable suspicion that they’d been planning to organise, in the future, certain undesired events that could compromise the security of both Macedonia and other countries, were arrested,” Interior Minister Pance Toskovski said on Sunday. As he explained, the operation was carried out following orders by ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on wet roads in some places. Reduced visibility due to fog up to 30 m from the village of Gajre – P. Shapka and the mountain passes Gjavato and Pletvar up to 50 m. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes ...

Commenting on DUI’s Artan Grubi’s decision to leave public life, VMRO-DPMNE MP Brane Petrusevski said on Thursday that the US-blacklisted ex-Deputy PM doing that was not enough, adding that he should also give back the money he was suspected of making through crime. “At the same time, liability is needed also for all those within DUI who would give him ...

Regarding the Prosecutor’s Office’s formation of a case against ex-Deputy PM Artan Grubi and Skopje Court of Appeals Judge Enver Bexheti, both blacklisted by the US on December 9, President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova said on Thursday it should have been practice before, too, adding that it should be practice in the future as well. Regarding the issue of a restrictive ...

Skopje Court of Appeals Judge Ariton Alla and Stip Court of Appeals Judge Danka Ristova are officially new members of the Judicial Council. SDSM said the fact that Ristova was married to Radovis Mayor Aco Ristov meant that, instead of reforms, there was “brutal particisation” of the judiciary by VMRO-DPMNE. “These are party installations in the judiciary, which was the ...

On Thursday, upon an order from the Skopje Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office, police officers conducted a search on the premises of the Judicial Council. The Office explained that police were looking for two documents, that is, minutes in order to check potential elements of a crime. However, it added that the search wasn’t related to the 9 December blacklisting of ...

Telma has learned that a Judicial Council member has initiated disciplinary proceedings against US-blacklisted Skopje Court of Appeals Judge Enver Bexheti. The next session of the body is expected to see the formation of a commission to decide on the request for unscrupulous action by the Judge. In November 2023, Bexheti faced action by the Council because he had kept ...