North Macedonia’s delegation has continued its activities in New York. In a discussion with Columbia University students, PM Dimitar Kovacevski talked about Open Balkan, describing the initiative as organic and adding it was an economic alliance of North Macedonia, Serbia, and Albania, built on European principles. Also, he said he had always invited Kosovo because he had learned the conflict ...

According to President Stevo Pendarovski, Vladimir Putin’s call for additional mobilisation in Russia can deteriorate the situation in Ukraine, but also in the whole world. In an interview with Klan Makedonija TV, he stated that the course of events couldn’t be predicted. However, the President stated that if the Russian President used nuclear weapons, that would be “horror for the ...

Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic, in the frames of the explanatory screening for Chapter 24, Justice, announced before European Commission representatives the signing of the Frontex deal. As he said, the document will be signed in the Macedonian language, in October. The Chief Negotiator added in the opening address that the areas of justice, freedom, and security was ...

“Are you in favour of continuing the EU negotiations, with acceptance of Parliament’s conclusions?” Levica thinks that that makes it basically impossible to reject the initiative from a formal-legal standpoint. That was stated by the party’s President, Dimitar Apasiev, in an interview with Kanal 5 TV on Wednesday. According to him, Levica, unlike VMRO-DPMNE, will not “attack” the Conclusions, not ...

The new faction for democratic revitalisation of VMRO-DPMNE, as it was reported, has demanded for Hristijan Mickoski to be replaced as party leader. One of the initiators is Oliver Andonov, a former Interior Minister, whose term lasted one day in one of the so-called Przino governments. As he said on Wednesday, that doesn’t mean there is a new wing within ...

On Wednesday, asked about what his party would do after the rejected referendum initiative, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said his party would continue to be bringing down the Government until early elections were held. Asked whether VMRO-DPMNE would support Levica’s initiative, he stated that the “game of submitting initiatives can be played endlessly”. However, Mickoski added that Parliament Speaker Talat ...

“High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell hosted an informal lunch with Western Balkans leaders on Tuesday in New York, in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA),” the EU says. As it is pointed out in the press-release, these informal gatherings take place twice a year in Brussels and New ...

Goran Milevski submitted his resignation as Local Self-Government Minister on Tuesday, citing personal reasons. He confirmed that for MTV1 TV. Milevski will also resign as LDP leader. SDSM and Alternative are adamant that there will be no reshuffle. DUI shares the stand that there is no need for such change. On the other hand, VMRO-DPMNE’s stand remains unchanged, that is, ...

In the frames of his visit to New York, PM Dimitar Kovacevski delivered an address at the Transforming Education Summit. As he said, in times of a world economic and energy crisis, North Macedonia’s priority will be to heat classrooms and homes in the winter. According to Kovacevski, the energy crisis facing North Macedonia, Europe and the world represents a ...

According to Minister of Political System and Inter-Community Relations, Artan Grubi, who also serves as First Deputy PM, currently, 74 MPs are in favour of the constitutional changes. “We will manage to secure the votes also of another six MPs from the Macedonian opposition,” he says in an interview with TV21. As Grubi adds, the six will be found in ...