The Operational-Technical Agency (OTA) has once again denied that it has procured and used the Predator spyware. As it said on Wednesday, the trend of creating and announcing “untruthful contents” by political centres of power and placing them in part of media unfortunately continues. “Since the implementation of reforms in the field of communication interception and the OTA’s formation as ...

Deputy PM for Good Governance Policies Slavica Grkovska will consider the case in which DUI leader Ali Ahmeti and officials from his party talked to France’s Laurence Boone, Germany’s Anna Luhrmann, and Poland’s Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek on the premises of the Ministry of Political System and Inter-Community Relations, headed by First Deputy PM Grubi. Grkovska stated on Wednesday she ...

At a session on Tuesday, the Government adopted the text of the initiative for constitutional changes and decided for the document to be submitted to Parliament. According to the initiative, Bulgarians and another five peoples will be included in the Preamble and Articles 49 and 78, that is, the Bulgarian people, Croatian people, Montenegrin people, Slovenian people, Jewish people, and ...

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi and MPs held a meeting on Tuesday with France’s Laurence Boone, Minister of State for Europe, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, German Minister for Europe Anna Luehrmann, and Poland’s Minister for the EU, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek. The country is committed to achieving the strategic goal of EU membership, but there is ...

DUI’s Parliamentary Group has said that though it regrets that Izet Mexheti is leaving the party and taking MPs Merita Kollçi Koxhaxhiku and Kastriot Rexhepi with him to the opposition, that will not affect the ruling majority’s stability. Though SDSM hasn’t officially commented on the latest developments in relation to Parliament, representatives of the ruling party, too, off the record, ...

At a press-conference in Tetovo on Tuesday, representatives of Alternative from all branches and Central Board members expressed, as they said, dissatisfaction and remarks about the failure of leadership when it comes to fulfilment of the party’s tasks from the last congress. According to the group, though there’s been turbulence within the party for 18 months, that hasn’t affected leadership. ...

On Tuesday, the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security added four entities, Intellexa S.A. in Greece, Cytrox Holdings Crt in Hungary, Intellexa Limited in Ireland, and Cytrox AD in North Macedonia to the Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems, threatening the privacy and security of individuals and organisations worldwide. “Intellexa ...

The Official Gazette has published the temporary measure adopted by the Constitutional Court on 5 July. That means that birth certificates including an ethnicity column will not be issued starting from Tuesday. The head of the Office for Management of Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths says he will comply with the Court’s decision. Everyone who files an application will ...

On Monday, Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic met in Skopje with France’s Laurence Boone, Minister of State for Europe, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, German Minister for Europe Anna Luehrmann, and Poland’s Minister for the EU, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek. French Minister Boone said North Macedonia belonged to the European family. According to her, ...

On Monday, a delegation of VMRO-DPMNE and parliamentary parties from the coalition it leads held a meeting with France’s Laurence Boone, Minister of State for Europe, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, German Minister for Europe Anna Luehrmann, and Poland’s Minister for the EU, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek. According to the press-release, the representatives of VMRO-DPMNE and ...