In the Municipalities of Kavadarci, Strumica, Gostivar, Struga, and Kumanovo, most modern equipment and methodology will be used to identify ambient air pollution sources. For the first time in the country, there will also be air measuring indoors. The research, which will be carried out by Goce Delcev University and the AMBICON laboratory, will take place also at several schools ...

To complete the constitutional changes process, the Government is preparing dirty deals, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski claims in a statement for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. As he points out, there is secret communication between ex-PM and former VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski and the Government. “The Government believes it can split our party. However, that will not be successful. We’ve done ...

In an interview with MTV1 TV, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti asks why VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski is talking about a “Bulgarian dictate” considering the proposal is a French-German one. According to him, if Bulgarians become a constitutional category, there will automatically be a distinction between Macedonians and the Bulgarian minority. The US, EU, and NATO, the DUI leader adds, have ...

Former PMs Zoran Zaev and Nikola Gruevski have denied that they met DUI leader Ali Ahmeti regarding the changes to the Criminal Code. The ex-SDSM leader told 24 TV on Monday that Ahmeti’s statement in the interview with TV21 was not true. The same day, the former VMRO-DPMNE leader, on his official Facebook page, said there hadn’t been any secret ...

During Tuesday’s debate on the Criminal Code changes, organised by the Solution Balkan Centre for Constructive Policies, Robert Scott Heaslet, Senior Resident Director for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) in North Macedonia, said the changes had been adopted hastily, without consultation with experts and without organisation of a wide public debate. According to State Commission for Prevention ...

In New York, PM Dimitar Kovacevski, together with the Deputy PM for European Affairs, Bojan Maricic, met with the EU’s Special Representative for the Belgrade- Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan Regional Issues, Miroslav Lajcak. They talked about current political issues in North Macedonia and in the region, as well as their implications in a wider security context. It’s necessary ...

At its session on Tuesday, the Government considered but didn’t accept the Pardon Draft- Law proposed by Justice Minister Krenar Lloga. In the press-release, it was said a decision had been made for there to be additional work on the text for alignment. Some media said that Lloga had been revolted and even threatened to resign. However, shortly after that, ...

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti is without an answer about why the Criminal Code (CC) changes have been made now and without a wide debate. However, in an interview with TV21, he reveals that he had secret meetings several years ago over the changes with the former leaders of SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE, Zoran Zaev and Nikola Gruevski, respectively. According to him, ...

Only MPs with a security certificate at Parliament’s Committee for Supervising the Work of the National Security Agency and the Intelligence Agency have heard who used the Pegasus and Predator spying systems. After Monday’s session, the opposition said the security services had submitted information about the scandal concerning unauthorised interception of communication, adding nonetheless that it hadn’t denied their accusations ...

On the sidelines of the 78 th UN General Assembly, President Stevo Pendarovski held a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. They discussed the Skopje-Berlin bilateral cooperation, North Macedonia’s European perspective, and current developments in the region. President Pendarovski informed the German Chancellors about Skopje’s EU accession talks, expressing gratitude for the principled support and commitment by Germany so far ...