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 ...

According to the latest survey conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI), President Stevo Pendarovski is the politician citizens trust the most, with full trust from 12% and partial trust from 26% of respondents. Ex-PM Nikola Gruevski is second (11% full and 19% partial trust), while VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski is third (8% and 21% partial trust). The survey also ...

The Criminal Court has said it acted right regarding the case of ex-Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakeski and the effective verdict against him in the Titanic case. As it pointed out on Monday, through the confession, he was issued a sentence, which calculates also the time spent under house arrest (28 February 2022 to the start of his ...

At a press-conference on Monday, Administrative Court President Burim Sejdini refuted the claims in the charge over abuse of official duty through abuse of the automated court case management system, family employments, and carrying out activities intentionally for the statute of limitations regarding cases to expire. As he added, it’s about an attempt to harm the image of both him ...

The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office has said an investigation has been opened against a person suspected in the case concerning 26-year-old Samoil Kostadinovski, the nephew of United for Macedonia leader Ljube Boskoski. According to the Office, the suspect, on 3 March, together with another two people against whom investigation is already underway, were part of a kidnapping in Kisela Voda ...