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The legal process against Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski, in which he is tried for abuse of official position and authorisation, following a charge filed by two construction companies based in the city in relation to non-receipt of permits to build buildings, continued on Monday. Once again, Dimitrievski said he was not guilty. On the other hand, the lawyers for the ...

On Monday, Constitutional Court President Darko Kostadinovski and Judge Ana Pavlovska Daneva held a working meeting with Italian Ambassador Andrea Silvestri. The meeting focused on the opportunities for bilateral cooperation between the Kostadinovski-headed Court and its counterpart institution in Italy. Kostadinovski briefed Ambassador Silvestri on his priorities. “Ambassador Silvestri expressed interest in matters related to the providing of the Court’s ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on mostly dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the road ...

On Sunday, VMRO-DPMNE leader and PM-designate Hristijan Mickoski announced the names of candidates for Government members from the Your Macedonia coalition, after he’d received unanimous support for them from his party’s Central and Executive Committee. Gordana Dimitrieska-Kocoska, Aerodrom Mayor Timco Mucunski, and former caretaker Interior Minister Pance Toskovski are the candidates to head the Ministries of Finance, Foreign Affairs and ...

On Saturday, Alternative’s Central Presidency held a meeting where it was unanimously decided for spokesperson and former MEPSO head Orhan Murtezani to be the candidate of the party, which is part of VLEN, for the position of EU Affairs Minister. The position of deputy Education and Science Minister was discussed too. In that regard, Alternative unanimously decided for the Secretary ...

Businessperson Igor Filkov will be nominated by ZNAM as Justice Minister. At a press-conference on Friday, Spokesperson Nikola Memov added that the party’s Secretary-General, Goran Mincev, would be nominated as Administration Minister. Negotiations on two positions of deputy ministers are continuing, too, Memov stressed.

On Sunday, President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova delivered an address the plenary session of the Ukraine Peace Summit, held in Switzerland. As she pointed out, Ukraine is exposed to great human suffering and destruction, Europe’s security architecture is under threat, while, at a global level, the lives of millions are impacted by the severe economic consequences. “We condemn, in the strongest ...

On Saturday, President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova said that she’d had, on the sidelines of the Ukraine Peace Summit taking place in Switzerland, a brief conversation with US Vice President Kamala Harris. “We hope for further strengthening of bilateral relations with the US,” the President stated, adding that her country highly appreciated the support from its strategic partner. The following day, ...

US President Joe Biden has continued for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13219 with respect to the Western Balkans. “The actions of persons threatening the peace and international stabilisation efforts in the Western Balkans, including acts of extremist violence and obstructionist activity, and the situation in the Western Balkans, which stymies progress toward effective and democratic ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on mostly dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the road ...