Police are expanding the investigation to find out where the fake bomb threats are coming from. Soon, the results of the investigation in Delcevo are expected, while the investigation in Kavadarci has been completed. According to Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, the motive is to influence geostrategic interests. As he adds, without building capacities and cooperation between institutions, the fight against ...

Deputy PM for Good Governance Policies Slavica Grkovska has initiated criminal procedures against three officials. Without revealing names, in an interview, she says the fight against corruption is impartial and covers everyone who has broken the laws regardless of whether they are an official or a member of any party. The Deputy PM points out she will not be stopped ...

A charge has been filed against three persons in the Empire case, Pelisterka owner Cvetin Pandeleski, businessperson Zoranco Mitrevski, and broker Jovance Taskovski. The three are charged with abuse of official position and authorisation and money lauundering and other income from crimes. Two of them, that is, Pandeleski and Taskovski are also charged with fraud. A proposal has been filed ...

Only VMRO-DPMNE MPs discussed at Wednesday’s debate on the Annual Report on the Work of the Council of Public Prosecutors for 2021. They were more focused on Chief Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski’s nomination as member of the Constitutional Court. VMRO-DPMNE MP Eli Panova asked Joveski to leave the race, saying his nomination was one of the reasons why citizens were ...

The decision of the Court of Appeals to annul the verdict in the Target-Fortress case and for it to be returned to consideration again still hasn’t arrived at the Criminal Court even though it was made 15 days ago. The Judicial Council has formed a working group that will head to the Court of Appeals to check how the decision ...

At this moment, there is no real threat to the security of the country, according to Defence Minister Slavjanka Petrovska. “That is what citizens need to know. We leave nothing to chance,” she said on Tuesday. The Minister added that services were taking additional measures. Answering a question at the 9th NATO student simulation, Petrovska said that a debate had ...

Chief Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski is satisfied with the results in his area because the level of realisation of tasks, 63%, of higher public prosecutor’s offices and the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime and Corruption. Last year, offices acted in over 45,000 committed crimes. The opposition, however, says the numbers are not enough. VMRO-DPMNE MP Gordana Siljanovska Davkova points ...

Ombudsperson Naser Ziberi personally doubts there is enough readiness, capacity, and resources within relevant institutions to change the situation regarding the citizens’ low trust in the judiciary. Commenting on IRI’s poll about the drop when it comes to citizens’ trust in the judiciary, he said on Tuesday he was primarily referring to the Judicial Council and Council of Public Prosecutors. ...

In the frames of his visit to Skopje, Turkiye’s Parliament Speaker, Mustafa Sentop, held a meeting with PM Dimitar Kovacevski. They confirmed the traditionally good relations between the countries. Sentop and Kovacevski talked about the investments from Turkiye in North Macedonia. The former conveyed a message of strong support from his country’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for Skopje’s progress on ...

There are mistakes also in the geography textbook for eight-graders about races in Europe. The same construction of a sentence and identical yet inaccurate information are presented on the Wikipedia page about the continent. That has resulted in the public and experts asking what principles were used to create the textbooks. The public has continued to ask how mistakes are ...