On Friday, police officers from Skopje deprived of liberty four persons for violence against Levski supporters on Cvetan Dimov in the settlement of Cair. As it was said in the press-release, they left the route secured by police on their own. On 27 July, at around 6:30 pm, on Cvetan Dimov Street, while the Levski supporters were driving in Honda ...

Commenting on Thursday’s incidents in relation to the Shkupi-Levski match, Bulgarian PM Nikolai Denkov said on Friday they were a result of constant attempts to cause tensions between the two countries. According to him, the roots of the relations are much deeper. As he added, sports should unite people instead of being something that causes aggression. Prosecutors in Sofia themselves, ...

The guarantees are in the negotiating framework with the EU, according to Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani. He said on Saturday that there would be no new requirements by Bulgaria following the constitutional changes. According to him, the ruling majority is eight MPs away from having a two-thirds majority. Regarding Bulgaria, he said the Ministry had reacted over the broadcast of ...

Ministers who are part of DUI have filed resignations that will enter into force when the opposition votes in favour of constitutional changes, ministers from Ali Ahmeti’s party told Telma TV on Sunday. “We, Ministers and Government officials from the ranks of DUI are resigning. The resignations, Mr PM, will enter into force once the opposition votes through the constitutional ...

Media in Bulgaria are sharing a video of a Bulgarian entertainer saying in a song that Macedonia is a Bulgarian territory and province and that Bulgarian blood is running in the veins of Macedonians. At the end of the song, he even says there will be more such lyrics. North Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry reacted, as did its counterpart institution in ...

In an interview with OhridNews.com, the EU Delegation’s Head, Ambassador David Geer, says the EU has an obligation to ensure that countries that are negotiating will not be blocked due to bilateral issues. As he points out, it is the responsibility of Brussels, too, to ensure that the accession process of Skopje will focus on important topics, such as the ...

At the session for parliamentary questions, held on Thursday, VMRO-DPMNE MPs asked why the decision to merge the concessions for the Ilovica-Stuka mines hadn’t been annulled so far and why the country was putting itself at risk of paying millions as a result of arbitration disputes. The Government has failed to solve the problem for seven years, they added. PM ...

Former Deputy President of BESA Arjanit Hoxha and MP Bastri Bajrami said on Thursday they would form a new political party. As Hoxha explained, he and multiple BESA members will start to function as a separate political formation. He added that the doors were open to those who wanted to be part of the project. “We’re an organised structure,” Hoxha ...

Regarding the cases being investigated by OLAF, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said on Thursday his party had been talking for six years that SDSM and DUI were involved in crime and corruption. “It’s good that it is becoming clearer to our partners from Europe,” he said. According to Mickoski, the future government led by his party and organs under it ...

The peer review mission sent by the EU entered the Judicial Council on Thursday. In the first stage, a team of four representatives will go through the work of judges and evaluate their work. Former Croatian Supreme Court President Branko Hrvatin, who leads the mission, told Sitel on Thursday he was coming to Skopje as part of an expert visit, ...