On Monday, together with Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Fatmir Bytyqi, PM Dimitar Kovacevski participated in an informal meeting in Tirana between PMs from the Western Balkans and EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi. “Together, we’re in Tirana at a meeting with Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi, together with the host, Edi Rama, with the PM of Serbia and the PM of ...

On Monday, media in Greece reported new information about the murder of Orhan Bajrami in Chalkidiki, Greece. According to the reports, police already have the videos from the villa where Bajrami and Sead Slezovic were staying. Reportedly, the two attackers got out of a car, jumped over the wall, and opened fire on Bajrami and Slezovic from close range. Bajrami ...

At a press-conference on Monday, VMRO-DPMNE MP Brane Petrusevski said the Government, through the Operational-Technical Agency (OTA), had procured communication interception equipment for which there was no legal framework. “Over our indications and suspicions that the Government can illegally follow two million citizens, we have notified the Public Prosecutor’s Office, but there has still been no reaction,” he added. According ...

On Monday, Chief Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski held a meeting, upon an own initiative, with State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) members. In the frames of the activities to enhance the national front to fight corruption, the two institutions considered the possibilities to additionally advance mutual cooperation, the Prosecutor’s Office said in the press-release. In that regard, Joveski said ...

On Saturday, in Chaniotis, Greece, a citizen of North Macedonia, Orhan Bajrami – Oki, was fatally shot, while another citizen, Sead Slezovic, was hospitalised in Polygyros with serious wounds. The attackers were wearing balaclavas, came by motorbike in the middle of the night, and fired over 20 bullets, Telma reported on Saturday afternoon. According to Greek media, when police came ...

In a press-release issued on Sunday, Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said the negotiating framework that would be presented to North Macedonia after the end of the stage of opening accession negotiations, as agreed by the Council of the EU, specifically set the principles regulating the negotiations. The Ministry reiterated Sofia was asking for institutions to prove their seriousness with which they ...

Political consensus in North Macedonia is the key regarding constitutional changes, progress, and accession to the EU, the EU Delegation’s Head, Ambassador David Geer, assesses in an interview with MIA. According to him, guarantees cannot be made that there will not be blockades for North Macedonia in the future, while if there are ones, he expects them to be due ...

Politics should be removed from the judiciary, the Government and parties should show willingness that they’re ready for that, while judges should show it is ready to do their job independently. That is the message sent by the EU Delegation’s Head, Ambassador David Geer, in an interview with MIA. According to him, the Delegation is carefully following developments related to ...

At the meeting in Washington, US Special Envoy for the Western Balkans and Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Gabriel Escobar and Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic discussed the issue of constitutional changes, Skopje’s EU path, US support on that road, and process to reform North Macedonia’s society. Maricic used the meeting to ...

The delay of constitutional messages means a delay on the EU path. That was the message sent on Thursday by Alexander Schallenberg, Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of Austria, Jan Lipavsky, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, and Miroslav Wlachovsky, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, who travelled to Skopje. As they added, if ...