President Stevo Pendarovski welcomes the French EU Presidency’s proactive approach, the President’s Cabinet said on Wednesday, answering a question whether a new French proposal was on the table to solve the Skopje-Sofia dispute. As it was added, Pendarovski hopes it could contribute to a solution being found that would help North Macedonia start more swiftly membership negotiations with the EU. ...

The State Commission for Prevention and Corruption will request for the Prosecutor’s Office to criminally prosecute former Government Secretaries General Dragi Raskovski and Muhamed Zekiri for abuse of official position. As it was said on Monday, it has formed a case upon an unknown initiative. As the Commission found, from 2017 to 2021, the Secretariat hired a big number of ...

The Supreme Court has confirmed the verdicts in which former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva and Bojan Jovanovski were sentenced to seven and nine years in prison, respectively, in the Extortion case. On Wednesday, the requests for extraordinary re-examination of the effective verdict were rejected. The defendants said there had been substantial violations of the procedure, which was why the case ...

The no-confidence motion against Talat Xhaferi has reached the Speaker’s cabinet. He may start to prepare the response in writing, for which he has 15 days. Regardless of whether he draws up an answer, after half a month, the motion should be part of the first session of Parliament. However, it is not specified in the Rules of Procedure how ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is starting a final attempt to lift the Bulgarian veto for Skopje. BGNES has reported that Bulgarian President Rumen Radev and the country’s PM, Kiril Petkov, will head to Paris in the coming days for a meeting with the French President, where the plan to solve the Skopje dispute will be presented. Bulgarian media have said ...

Prosecutor Ljubomir Lape, in the closing arguments over the Thaler 2 case on Tuesday, said former PM Nikola Gruevski and ex-Government Secretary General Kiril Bozinovski should be found guilty. He also sought taking away of VMRO-DPMNE’s seat. Lape’s stand is that the two took activities for the party to get a new party seat unlawfully. In addition, Lape pointed out ...

VMRO-DPMNE’s Parliamentary Group and its coalition have filed the no-confidence motion against the Speaker of the legislative home, Talat Xhaferi. The Group’s Coordinator, Nikola Micevksi, on Monday, urged all parliamentarians to support it. However, as he added, if the ruling majority doesn’t accept it, it will prove it backs the improper conduct of the Speaker. According to opposition, Xhaferi should ...

President Stevo Pendarovski is more and more convinced that North Macedonia should lower its expectations regarding its integration path. According to him, the complex political situation in Bulgaria and Kiril Petkov’s unstable Government is just an additional problem in the attempts to lift the veto. Pendarovski adds that public opinion is in favour of the veto, which is another problem ...

According to Constitutional Court President Dobrila Kacarska, the institution’s situation is serious, considering there are four fewer judges than what’s provided for in the Constitution. As she said on Monday, the institution is facing such a problem for the first time, while citizens’ initiatives and cases are being delayed. “If judges are not elected by December, the Court will be ...

According to President Stevo Pendarovski, the chances of North Macedonia getting a date for negotiations in June are less than 50%. In an interview with Euronews Bulgaria, the President says that the negotiations are more complex than before. According to Pendarovski, over the past years, Bulgaria has unexpectedly presented demands related to history, the ethnic origin, which it has tabled, ...