On Saturday, SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE continued to trade accusations in relation to alleged closeness to Bulgarian politicians obstructing the EU path. SDSM presented photos of VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski and presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, and Bulgarian MEP Andrey Kovatchev. On the other hand, VMRO-DPMNE said SDSM was trying to spread fake news by using old photographs. “People remember that ...

Interviews with passport candidates at the Bulgarian Consulate in Bitola would be conducted by a cleaning lady. That was revealed by Angel Georgiev, Bulgarian MP from the Revival party, following the report on the conducted control at the mission sent to an inspectorate of the Bulgarian Justice Ministry. As he added, the woman rejected a big number of applications. Bulgarian ...

On Saturday, Defence Minister Slavjanka Petrovska stated that her Ministry wasn’t ruling out the possibility, according to carried out assessments and in cooperation with the Health Ministry, of soldiers from Ukraine receiving medical treatment in North Macedonia. “There are capacities in the frames of the Defence Ministry that could be made available. Multiple institutions will be included in this initiative, ...

The 81st anniversary of deportation of Macedonian Jews to the Treblinka concentration camp was marked on Sunday in Stip. Israel’s Ambassador, Simona Frankel, said very few people had survived in the death camp. Regarding the Gaza situation, she called on Hamas to urgently release 134 hostages. Among them, the Ambassador said, are 19 young women who are experiencing sexual harassment ...

On Thursday, with 84 votes in favour and two abstentions, Parliament passed the Electoral Code changes. Ruling majority and opposition parliamentarians found common ground to enable over 100,000 citizens without documents containing the new constitutional name to be able to vote in the elections. According to the provisional transition, all adults with an ID or passport whose validity has expired ...

Several hours before the adoption of the Electoral Code changes that will enable citizens with documents containing the old constitutional name to vote, on Thursday, caretaker Interior Minister Pance Toskovski again criticised caretaker PM Talat Xhaferi’s stand that there is enough time for citizens to replace documents before the elections. According to him, there is no time to wait because ...

Prosecutors in Kumanovo have filed an indictment proposal against the Mayor, Maksim Dimitrievski, who’s also ZNAM leader and presidential candidate. The proposal concerns abuse of official position, but Dimitrievski’s stand is that he’s been refusing to issue permits for construction of an 11-storey building near a health institution and а school to a person he claims is a sponsor of ...

On Thursday, Telma asked North Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry to which politicians and statements its Bulgarian counterpart institution had reacted in the press-release issued previously. However, the TV station received no answers. Nonetheless, media in Bulgaria have reported that it’s about statements by President Stevo Pendarovski. In addition, the diplomatic reaction came after Angel Dzhambazki’s party had asked authorities in Sofia ...

During internal checks within the Skopje and Veles Internal Affairs Sectors in relation to the investigation into last year’s murder of Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski, requested by caretaker Minister Pance Toskovski, the Interior Ministry’s Department of Internal Control, Criminalistic Investigations, and Professional Standards has found no grounds to launch disciplinary proceedings. “We inform the public, considering the report’s classified, ...

If the EPP wins the June elections, it will head the European Commission again. From Bucharest, VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski said on Thursday that that was very important because, as he pointed out, the new government VMRO-DPMNE will form will have a friend in Europe with which it will cooperate to remove the vices being felt by the country. ...