The main remark of both Judicial Council President Sasko Georgiev and Council of Public Prosecutors President Antonio Jolevski regarding the Criminal Code changes is the quick and non-transparent adoption. The Justice Ministry didn’t consult the two institutions over the matter. According to Georgiev, the consequences and effects of the changes weren’t analysed. Jolevski believes that the changes should have been ...

PM Dimitar Kovacevski has condemned the unrest in Kosovo. Such acts of violence, he assessed on Monday, bring nothing good to the region. According to the PM, Sunday’s developments are a result of an agenda by some people who want to see the region again as a region of unrest and quarrelling between neighbours. Kovacevski’s stand is that the security ...

Regarding the census in Albania, Defence Minister Slavjanka Petrovska’s stand is that Macedonians in that country absolutely have a right to declare their ethnic affiliation. “The right to self-determination by every citizen, regardless of which territory they are on, is one of the founding European values,” she said at a press-conference on Monday with her Norwegian counterpart, Bjorn Arild Gram. ...

VMRO-DPMNE has presented a new “scandal” in the health sector. As Spokesperson Marija Miteva said at a press-conference on Monday, the “annual practice” of the Haematology Clinic, headed by Irena Panovska-Stavridis, to grant a tender to the pharmaceutical wholesaler owned by her father, D-r Panovski, continues. “It’s about a tender worth over three million euros,” Miteva said, presenting a document. ...

The reactions over alleged secret meetings about Criminal Code changes have continued. In Friday’s interview with Alsat, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski, asked which person from DUI had secretly negotiated with ex-PM Nikola Gruevski, said DUI leader Ali Ahmeti and Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi should be asked a question about USB sticks they had received in the spring of 2022 and ...

At the session of the Central Committee, VMRO-DPMNE confirmed its position for there to be no support for the constitutional changes process under the current conditions. According to the party’s leader, Hristijan Mickoski, there is cohesion and unity within VMRO-DPMNE. On social media, on Friday, he posted a photo of him and former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska. “Injustice has never ...

On Friday, Prosecutor Lence Ristoska described the Criminal Code changes as an insult to prosecutors honestly fighting corruption, adding that they are in the direction of impunity. She’s the first prosecutor to publicly comment on the matter. The changes, Ristoska noted, will most often affect crimes related to corruption. Friday also saw the continuation of the trial over the Trajectory ...

In an interview with Voice of America (VoA) Macedonian, President Stevo Pendarovski says the changes to the Criminal Code will not result in ex-PM Nikola Gruevski returning to North Macedonia. However, he can’t guarantee a scenario that the ex-PM would face justice in the event of him returning. When it comes to what message he expects from the U.S. following ...

President Stevo Pendarovski delivered on Friday an address at the UN General Debate, saying fear was the least common denominator with regards to the emotional state of humanity today. “Fear of wars, famine and poverty, environmental disasters; fear for the future of our next of kin. It is an undeniable fact that international order has been shaken to its core ...

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani has condemned the killing of the police officer in Kosovo, Afrim Bunjaku. “I strongly condemn the killing of a police officer in north of R. Kosovo. My heart goes out to his family & colleagues. Full support for justice bringing perpetrators of this heinous act to justice. Acts of violence won’t undermine Kosovo’s stability. Citizens’ safety ...