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Dameva Meets Dutch Ambassador Jan Kop, EU Ambassador Geer

The Dutch Embassy in North Macedonia revealed via its profiles on social networks that Ambassador Dirk Jan Kop had a meeting with President of the Judicial Council Vesna Dameva. “Ambassador Kop is pleased that the Judicial Council is a legal entity again. It is now of high importance and urgency to start restoring the trust of the public and the ...

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AA Secures Parliamentary Majority for Caretaker Government

Sloboden Pecat reported that the necessary majority of 61 MPs for adoption of the decision for inauguration of the caretaker government has been secured after the Alliance for Albanians (AA) confirmed that their party will endorse the inauguration of the caretaker government headed by DUI’s Talat Xhaferi as caretaker PM. AA conditioned their support with keeping the position they acquired ...

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PM: We Can Discuss Caretaker Government with Mickoski Over the Phone

PM Dimitar Kovacevski stated at a press conference that an eventual meeting with VMRO- DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski is not that much necessary and that they could agree the details about the caretaker government over the phone. “Not all meetings take place in conference rooms and many aspects can be agreed over the phone. There is communication, we know each ...

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Maurice: Belgium Supports Integration of North Macedonia in EU

Belgian Ambassador to North Macedonia Frederic Meurice presented the priorities of the Belgian presidency over the EU in the first half of 2024, stating that Brussels would be an honourable mediator and that it can create some rather good compromises. “Belgium will have the chance to make significant contributions for the progress of the European idea and project. We have ...

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IDC Recommends Use of Masks in Healthcare Facilities, Retirement Homes

The Infectious Diseases Committee (IDC) decided at a meeting on Tuesday to recommend obligations for use of masks in healthcare facilities and in retirement homes. This follows the situation with the significantly increased number of cases of respiratory infections all over the country over the past weeks. “We have entered the flu season, and we need to be thinking about ...

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Lukarevska: PRO Prevented Major VAT Return Fraud

Director of the Public Revenue Office (PRO) Sanja Lukarevska revealed at a press conference that three oil trading companies located in the Kumanovo-Lipkovo region have attempted to damage the state budget by acquiring value-added tax (VAT) returns with false documentation. “We managed to detect the fraud attempts on time and acted immediately against them, thus preventing any damage to the ...

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VMRO-DPMNE Files Initiative for Prolonged Validity of IDs, Passports

Spokesperson of VMRO-DPMNE Naum Stoilkovski filed to the Constitutional Court on behalf of the party an initiative for evaluation of the constitutionality of Article 3 of the Law on Personal Identification Documents and Article 5 of the Law on Traffic and Road Security. “We filed these initiatives, and we expect the Constitutional Court to adopt temporary measures for these law ...

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Tomovska: SLI to Decide Whether to Enlarge Control over M-NAV Trade Union

Director of the State Labour Inspectorate (SLI) Vesna Tomovska informed that the team of inspectors have complete the control over the trade union of M-NAV, which the government ordered a week ago. “This is a major case in which there is a lot of documentation to be processes, so it will take us at least one week to complete the ...

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Flag of North Macedonia Banned from Australia Open Tennis Courts

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) of Australia in Macedonian language published a photograph of a sheet of paper attached to the cameras recording the Australia Open tennis matches on which the flag of North Macedonia is enlisted with several others as a banned flag. As SBS Macedonian reports, a week ago the Executive Director of Australia Open Craig Tylee announced ...

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PM Kovacevski Meets OSCE Sec Gen Schmid in Vienna

PM Dimitar Kovacevski met in Vienna, Austria, the Secretary General of OSCE Helga Schmid. As the government reports in a press release, Schmid praised the successful presidency of North Macedonia over OSCE throughout 2023, and she and Kovacevski concluded that through that the country once again demonstrated its dedication to multilateralism. The interlocutors also concluded that North Macedonia did an ...

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