Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani said in an interview for Belgian newspaper “La Libre” that Macedonia is “collateral damage” of the COVID-19 vaccine delivery delay in Europe. “Our country already paid for delivery of 800,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX mechanism, and for additional 800,000 doses directly procured from the producer Pfizer, but we still have not received ...

Bulgarian Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ekatrina Zaharieva said in an interview for web portal Clubz.bg that Bulgaria does not want Macedonia left out of the EU, but it also cannot tolerate the further endorsement of hatred towards Bulgaria. “There is a huge difference between us. There, one can win elections with anti-Bulgarian rhetoric and campaign. Here, there can be ...

President of Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski commented in an interview for radio Kanal 77 on the claims by VMRO-DPMNE that Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and Justice Minister Bojan Maricic have not yet obtained security certificates from NATO. “To this very moment, between 40 and 50 state officials on high positions of the state have acquired NATO certificates, and another 100 are ...

The consequences of the blockade for the start of the country’s negotiations with the EU, their impact on the population’s enthusiasm for European integration, as well as the delay in the start of the vaccination process, were the topics discussed by Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani after his abroad visits. Osmani assessed that there is “disappointment by Macedonia and its ...

In the first year of full NATO membership, Macedonia has proven to be an active member of the Alliance and shares the common values ​​and principles of all allies. This was concluded in a telephone conversation between Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. DM Sekerinska stressed that the country’s military integration into the Alliance is proceeding ...

Colonel Dragan Kovacki from VMRO-DPMNE claims that Minister Radmila Sekerinska used the content of classified documents for her personal and party promotion and filed criminal charges on the matter. Apart from Sekerinska, such report was also filed for a head at the Ministry of Defence. Kovacki explained to Kanal 5 that these were two posts on social networks from a ...

The trial for the organizers of the events in the Parliament on 27 April 2017 continued at Thursday’s hearing. Former President Gjorge Ivanov also testified, who said that as the then President of the country he had no information about the announcement of an organized entry at Parliament on 27 April 2017. Regarding the information provided for declaring martial law ...

“The census is a statistical operation that we must do, it is our duty,” said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who commenting on the call from the opposition to postpone it, asked what would be different if the census is held May next year. “The census is held between 1 and 21 April as planned and it should be completed. Although ...

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva criticized the statement made by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Monday at the debate of the American think tank Atlantic Council. Zaharieva stressed that the problem is that they believe that hatred towards Bulgarians is nurtured and that the Agreement is not being fulfilled. “Is it in principle to educate generations after generations with hatred ...

“It is becoming clear that the government led by Zaev, instead of being statistical, sees the census as a political operation that is a coalition agreement and is outside the standards of the European Union. The government politicizes the census on two grounds. First, the government officials themselves started citing percentages and what percentage should be for the census to ...