In an interview with the ClickPlus show on TV21, President Pendarovski says there is intentional expiration of the statute of limitations in cases in the country. As he adds, it must be found out why that is so. “Dobrila Kacarska sentenced the most complex case, the 27 April storming of Parliament one. There were hearings day and night, and she ...

The working group that will work on the correction to the legislation concerning salaries of officials should have at its disposal all aspects because it’s about the laws regulating salaries of elected and named persons, as well as of MPs, PM Dimitar Kovacevski said on Thursday. According to him, first, a solution should be found that will fairly valorise everybody’s ...

VMRO-DPMNE member Velo Markovski will run as an independent candidate in the presidential election. However, he expects support from his party. At a press-conference on Thursday, he said an independent candidate supported by the people was a good chance for unification and functioning of the country. The procedure to collect 10,000 signatures will start, according to the law, after the ...

The investigative procedure against the seven suspects in the Delcevo Fields case is being stopped. The Skopje Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office launched a procedure against them concerning defraud in the service. After the analysis of the criminal charge, statements by witnesses, and all secured material evidence in the investigative procedure, it’s been found that neither material nor verbal evidence arise ...

PM Dimitar Kovacevski and Head of the EU Delegation, Ambassador David Geer share the view that progress on North Macedonia’s EU path depends on the country itself. The former expects for the constitutional changes to be made. According to Geer, though North Macedonia has support for integration, the homework has to be done. Regarding the issue of elections, the PM’s ...

It will be known this month how much the salaries of officials, which rose in April by 78%, will be reduced. At the Government’s session on Tuesday, a decision wasn’t made because PM Dimitar Kovacevski was in Tirana. The following day, the PM said a solution was possible in two-three weeks. However, he didn’t say how much the salaries would ...

Regarding the security situation in North Macedonia after the raising of the security level in European countries, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said that the authorities were following the situation. However, he added that there weren’t concrete threats. Werner Amon, the Austrian state of Styria’s Minister for European and International Affairs, Education and Human Resources, stated that the security situation in ...

Asked to comment on the expiration of the statute of limitations concerning wire-tapping in the Target-Fortress case, the Head of the EU Delegation, Ambassador David Geer, said on Wednesday he couldn’t comment. However, he added that the European Commission’s stand regarding the Criminal Code changes was unchanged. As Geer reiterated, previously, the Commission expressed deep concern over the implications the ...

Three days before the seventh anniversary of the opening of the Toplik case, the Court of Appeals annulled the verdict, which has resulted in absolute expiration of the statute of limitations over the process which concerns the Sun City area. As a result of the Court’s ruling, the six convicted people, including ex-Transport and Communications Minister Mile Janakieski, at a ...

The infamous Article 353, instead of concerning abuse of official position, will in the future pertain to cultural heritage. In the latest Draft-Criminal Code obtained by Kanal 5, the act is regulated in Article 460. Paragraph 1 of the Article, which describes the act, remains the same, as does the length of the prison sentence, 6 to 36 months, as ...