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Verdict on “Modular Hospital” Case to Be Announced on 5 June

The court process in the case of the fire in the Tetovo modular hospital that broke out in September 2021 has ended. Due to the volume of the case, there will be a verdict next Monday, 5 June, at noon, said judge Jordan Velkovski after the closing statements of the prosecution and defense. The prosecutor’s office maintained that the two ...

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Judicial Council Rejects Claims of Dutch Ambassador About Election

The Judicial Council (JC) functions legally and in accordance with the powers given in the Law on the Judicial Council, this was concluded at working collegium, which rejected as unfounded the claims of the Dutch ambassador Dirk Jan Kop that the new president of the JC was elected in an illegitimate procedure and therefore, the four-year project financed by this ...

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Kovacevski Addresses Immediate Response 23 Event

PM Dimitar Kovacevski attended and addressed the largest multinational exercise this year in the Republic of North Macedonia, “Immediate Response 23”, in which, in addition to the Republic of North Macedonia, three other NATO member countries – the United States of America, Albania, Montenegro and as a NATO partner country – Kosovo, with about 1,850 participants. The exercise, according to ...

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Pendarovski Signs Legal Amendments for Corridors 8 and 10d

President Stevo Pendarovski decided to sign the legal amendments for the construction of corridors 8 and 10d. After consulting with lawyers and experts, he concluded that the amendments that passed in the assembly with a shortened procedure and a European flag are not disputed. Earlier, Pendarovski announced the possibility of vetoing the decree on the Law on Labor Relations, but ...

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Kop: Constitutional Amendments – Guarantee for Start of Negotiations

“Changing the Preamble of the Macedonian Constitution is a guarantee for the beginning of the new phase of the negotiation process between North Macedonia and the European Union,” assures the Ambassador of Netherlands in the country, Dirk Jan Kop. “The second phase will begin when North Macedonia changes the Preamble to the Constitution to include the Bulgarian minority, along with ...

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Geer: Reforms Should Be Accelerated

“The process of reforms and their implementation should move very quickly. The dynamics of implementing reforms is not as fast as we would like. As for constitutional amendments, the first thing to do is to demystify that whole process. Just by moving forward, your country does not lose its identity, it does not lose its language, nor does it lose ...

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Aggeler: Tough Decisions Should be Done by December

US Ambassador, Angela Aggeler, said that the message sent by the US senator Chris Murphy is clear that the difficult decisions to advance in the Euro-Atlantic integration should be made by the end of the year. “If the difficult decisions to move forward in Euro-Atlantic integration are not made by the end of the year, there will be people in ...

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Kovacevski-Mickoski Leadership Meeting for National and State Interests

PM Dimitar Kovacevski will invite the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, to a leadership meeting. As he announced, he plans to put two topics on the table – North Macedonia & #39;s integration into the EU and harmonization of views on relations with neighboring countries. If such a meeting were to take place, he did not reveal the details, he ...

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Macedonian and Bulgarian Delegation in Front of St. Cyril Plaque in Rome

The parliamentary delegations of North Macedonia and Bulgaria bowed together and laid flowers in front of the memorial plaque of St. Cyril in the Basilica “Santa Maria Maggiore” in Rome. Then the President of the Parliament Talat Xhaferi and the President of the Bulgarian National Assembly, Rosen Zhelyazkov, gave a joint statement to the media of both countries. “The initiative ...

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Government Delegation Led by PM Lays Flowers at Saints’ Monument

In honor of the celebration of 24 May – the Day of All-Slavic educators Cyril and Methodius, a government delegation led by the Prime Minister, Dimitar Kovacevski, together with the Minister of Education and Science, Jeton Shaqiri and the Minister of Defense, Slavjanka Petrovska, laid fresh flowers and paid respect to the monument of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius ...

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