VMRO-DPMNE’s Bojan Stojanoski said on Wednesday there could be communication of parliamentarians from his party with MPs from the other parliamentary groups and Speaker Talat Xhaferi only if there was talk on dissolution of Parliament and holding parliamentary elections. “As our party leader, too, said, there is no official communication,” he said, answering a journalist’s question. According to the VMRO- ...

At the 82 nd session on Wednesday, the Council of Public Prosecutors elected Zoran Zdravev, Irena Spasovska, Emilija Mizo Dimkov, Fatmir Musa, and Ajbejan Ajdini as Prosecutors at the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje. Candidates Elizabeta Josifovska and Elena Manceva Kostova are becoming part of the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Offices in Gostivar and Kavadarci, respectively. The session also saw ...

“We cannot say ahead of time that we will eliminate someone because the public is speculating about something,” Council of Public Prosecutors President Antonio Jolevski said on Wednesday regarding the election of Prosecutor Ajton Ajro. As Kanal 5 TV reported, there were speculations according to which the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption has opened a procedure concerning a case ...

The insight over the Kumanovo Basic Court fire has been postponed for Thursday. It’s still not safe to enter the building. A prosecutor from Kumanovo, teams from the city’s Internal Affairs Sector, and experts will be among those that will be investigating. While the public is waiting for the insight’s results, the Ministry of Justice said on Wednesday that the ...

Kisela Voda Mayor said on Wednesday Skopje Mayor Danela Arsovska didn’t have the competence to issue a 90,000-euro fine against his Municipality because the Drisla PE was not located on the City of Skopje’s territory. As he added, municipalities don’t have to have a contract when it comes to disposal of waste at the Drisla landfill. In response, however, the ...

The Supreme Court has partially adopted the application by former secret police chief Zoran Verusevski for compensation of non-material damage concerning unfounded deprivation of liberty and harming of reputation and honour. According to the Court’s verdict, which was published on 3 July, the state will need to pay him around 5,000 denars for every day spent in detention in 2015 ...

Commenting on the Kumanovo Basic Court fire, which, as several media reported, claimed part of the archives, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski said on Tuesday that people from the Department of Criminalistic and Technical Examinations and Expertise from Skopje would be participating in the insight to locate the cause and what had burned down. In the morning, Judicial Council President Sasko ...

Tuesday saw a joint session of the National European Integration Council and Foreign Affairs Committee, at which Spanish Ambassador Jose Luis Lozano Garcia presented the programme and priorities regarding his country’s EU Presidency in the second half of this year. At the event, the EU Delegation’s Head, Ambassador David Geer said adoption of the constitutional changes without further delay would ...

A Government delegation led by PM Dimitar Kovacevski is taking part in the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. As the PM said on Tuesday, important decisions will bemade concerning defence of NATO members, protection against cyber and hybrid attacks, and promotion of cooperation with Kyiv. “A decision will be made regarding thefunding, that means that 2% of the GDP will ...

Mayors of municipalities in Skopje, on Monday, asked the capital’s Mayor, Danela Arsovska, to submit to them a report on the work of the Drisla and Komunalna Higiena (Communal Hygiene) PEs. Orce Gjorgjievski, Mayor of Kisela Voda, said the Communal Hygiene PE should be disbanded and competences should be transferred to municipalities in the capital. “In our view, with a ...