After corridor 10, corridor 8 also became part of the map of main routes in the region and Europe, as Minister of Transport and Communications Bocvarski signed the decision of the European Commission, at the request of North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania and Italy. With this annex, the roads that connect the east and west of the country will be considered ...

Starting now, the citizens of North Macedonia will be able to obtain the Certificate of Citizenship in electronic form and receive the same to an e-mail address and to a mobile phone. Electronic citizenship costs 150 denars and the amount can be paid electronically at the time of submitting the request, and the service is available through the portal. This ...

The Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption has received the contract with Bechtel and ENKA over the Corridors. As the institution pointed out on Friday, considering the vast documentation, the public prosecutor and team of investigators will need time to analyse and check all indications and allegations which have been a public interest for months. Regarding the ...

The decisions of the Council of Prosecutors and Judicial Council over Prosecutor Lence Ristoska and dismissed Council President Vesna Dameva are contradictory, according to Justice Minister Krenar Lloga. In an interview with Radio Free Europe, he says that that will not contribute to an increase of trust in the judicial system. Lloga calls for reason and normal work. “Together with ...

In the frames of his working visit to the US, PM Dimitar Kovacevski participated in a panel organised on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of North Macedonia’s UN integration. In his speech, Kovacevski once again said North Macedonia was the only former Yugoslav republic that had managed to get its independence peacefully, which, as he added, was considered a ...

There is a solid link between the OSCE and EU, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said at Friday’s meeting with heads of delegations of EU members at UN HQ. As he added, all EU countries are also OSCE participating States, which creates favourable room for work together on fulfilment of the joint obligations. Osmani presented the key priorities ...

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi held on Tuesday a regular coordination meeting with Parliamentary Group Coordinators and representatives of parties represented in Parliament. The issue of presentation of the Corridors VIII and X-d deal was on the agenda too. “The stand of those present is that considering that the initiative is of the opposition yet the opposition is not attending the ...

The dynamism regarding the working group for constitutional changes should be shared by the people within it, but so far, there has not been a topic expanding the set of issues being discussed with regards to constitutional changes, according to Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic. “The more strictly we stick to the obligations from the negotiating framework, the ...

“I am not going into the ins and outs and the details of the Judicial Council. I’m not privy to the discussions there and it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to do so, but I would say this: The Judicial Council is a very important body,” the Head of the EU Delegation, Ambassador David Geer, says in an interview with ...

Tuesday will see Parliamentary Group Coordinators head to Parliament Speaker Xhaferi’s cabinet to discuss the deal with Bechtel and ENKA on Corridors VIII and X-d. According to the legislative home’s announcement, one of the goals of the meeting is to strike a deal on how and in the frames of which committee the deal with Bechtel and ENKA will be ...