The Association of Journalists asked Parliament on Monday to explain the issue of the treatment of journalists. As it pointed out, based on journalists’ reports to the Association and on materials on the X portal, four foreign journalists were privileged at the expense of domestic ones because they were sat in the diplomatic part of the terrace in the plenary ...

Jovan Mitreski hosted on Monday his first coordination meeting in the capacity of Parliament Speaker. The meeting was attended by representatives of Parliamentary Groups (SDSM’s Dime Velkovski, Adnan Aziri of Alliance for Albanians, and Levica’s Borislav Krmov), Deputy Speakers Goran Misovski and Hysni Ismaili, Secretary General Cvetanka Ivanova, and Deputy PM Bojan Maricic, as representative of the Government. At the ...

Parliament Speaker Jovan Mitreski held a meeting on Monday with the EU Delegation’s Head, Ambassador David Geer. They discussed the excellent cooperation so far that will continue in the pre-election period. The EU Delegation’s Head expressed unreserved support for the newly-elected Speaker and Parliament as a whole, which, as he said, will continue in the coming months in order for ...

On Monday, Health Insurance Fund employees staged a peaceful protest, expressing their fear about a potential decrease of their salaries. The recommendation has been made by the Government, while the decision will be made by the Fund’s Managing Board. Trpe Deanoski, head of the Trade Union of Workers in the Administration, Judicial Bodies, and Associations of Citizens, stated that the ...

On Monday, President Stevo Pendarovski signed the decree promulgating the Law on Use of the Macedonian Language, adopted on Friday by Parliament. “I expect the implementation of the Law will contribute to overcoming of the alarming situation regarding the incorrect use of Macedonian and its Cyrillic script, as well as to increased, organised, and systemic care by the state about ...

On Sunday, with 65 votes in favour and three against, Parliament voted through the caretaker cabinet led by Talat Xhaferi. Though it had nominated the caretaker Interior and Labour and Social Policy Ministers, Pance Toskovski and Gjoko Velkovski, respectively, VMRO-DPMNE didn’t vote in favour, while the ethnic Albanian opposition didn’t attend the session at all. The two-hour session was marked ...

VMRO-DMNE presented on Friday the party’s candidates for the caretaker cabinet, Pance Toskovski as Interior Minister, Elena Petrova as additional Deputy Minister of Finance, Gjoko Velkovski as Labour and Social Policy Minister, Cvetan Tripunovski as additional Deputy Minister of Agriculture, and Stefan Andonovski as additional Deputy Minister of Information Society and Administration. Party leader Hristijan Mickoski said there would be ...

On Friday, Judicial Council President Vesna Dameva held a meeting with US Ambassador Angela Aggeler. The meeting saw a discussion on the state of affairs and challenges facing the Council and the judiciary, as well as about the former’s measures and activities. As the Council added in the press-release, Ambassador Aggeler particularly highlighted the need for fighting corruption and independent, ...

As a result of the Criminal Code Changes, in relation to Article 353 of the Criminal Code, the Court of Appeals has abolished the first-instance verdict in the Thaler 2 case and returned the case for a retrial before the first-instance Court. Former PM Nikola Gruevski and ex-Government Secretary-General Kiril Bozinovski were found guilty in the case. The ex-VMRO-DPMNE leader ...

On the last day of his term as PM, on Thursday, Dimitar Kovacevski signed off on the Restrictive Measures Draft-Law. The text is on its way to Parliament despite criticism from both law experts and state institutions. The negative opinion from both the Legislation Secretariat and the Justice Ministry remains. Though the Government still hasn’t made public the final version ...