In Bled, Slovenia, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani held a meeting with the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Gabriel Escobar, who is also the Special Envoy for the Western Balkans. Commenting on the meeting, Osmani voiced satisfaction with the recently held Strategic Dialogue and preliminary results in the form of grants to strengthen the rule ...

On Tuesday, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski held a meeting with German MP Felix Schreiner. The meeting focused on the economic and energy crisis in North Macedonia. As Mickoski said, the government, through the occupied institutions, has betrayed the economy, business sector, and directly, citizens in Macedonia. “Instead of a plan, support, and strategy to help the economy and business sector, ...

At the Bled Strategic Forum on Monday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the Western Balkans are part of the European family. “Let there be no doubt: Our friends from the Western Balkans are part of our European family. The Danube, the Adriatic and the Balkan mountains have always been a link, never a border. Our economies are ...

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani arrived on Monday in Bled, Slovenia, for the traditional Strategic Forum. “I must say that this is most likely the first forum after 20 years in which a representative of the Republic of North Macedonia will need to have a different narrative: I now have the privilege to present in this Forum a country that has ...

Lawsuits have been filed before the Court in Pernik challenging the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office preliminary investigation over the Struma accident in which 45 passengers were killed and seven injured, Nikolay Dimitrov, lawyer of the victims’ families has confirmed for MTV1 TV. He hopes the additional investigation, which is at an advanced stage, will shed new light on the case. As ...

PM Dimitar Kovacevski urged, as he said on Friday, all MPs to be up to the task and support the integration process. He called for support for the constitutional changes that should be made after the end of the screening process. Through them, the Bulgarian and other communities should be part of the Preamble. According to the PM, EU membership ...

The ruling structure doesn’t have support from VMRO-DPMNE for constitutional changes, the party’s Vice-President, Aleksandar Nikoloski says. He calls on the Government to put the item on the agenda in Parliament to see that it doesn’t have VMRO-DPMNE’s support. “The proposals for constitutional changes will fail in Parliament,” Nikoloski notes, adding that early elections should be held after that. In ...

The annulment of the declaration in Bulgaria, which was an obstacle for a start of Skopje’s EU integration has been Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani’s greatest challenge but also success since the start of his term. Presenting the results of his work, on Saturday, he said numerous bilateral and international activities had been taken that represented a revival the relations with ...

According to Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic, there is a possibility of the constitutional changes being made simultaneously with the screening process. He emphasises that North Macedonia’s concept of the Constitution and environment has always been inclusive for all communities. Maricic states that the Government will open dialogue with all parties and MPs. “We consider there will be ...

The Government of North Macedonia adopted on Thursday evening a decision to declare a state of energy crisis on the entire territory of the country. The state of energy crisis will become effective on 1 September 2022 and will last for 30 days. The government also reached a decision for declaring a state of crisis in the City of Skopje ...