The Head of the EU Delegation, Ambassador David Geer, said on Tuesday the EU was still analysing the changes to the Criminal Code. As he added, it will present a clear stand on the matter soon. US Ambassador Angela Aggeler, too, said the Embassy’s legal team was considering the changes. She stated that she couldn’t comment on them because she ...

Croatia and Slovenia will not support French President’s stand on a multi-speed Europe if it formally enters institutions in Brussels. According to Croatian President Zoran Milanovic, such a thesis is unattainable. As one of the chairs of the Brdo-Brijuni Process, Milanovic said in Skopje on Monday that it was key for Western Balkan countries to stay in the process, while ...

According to PM Dimitar Kovacevski, the changes to the Criminal Code aim at alignment with EU regulations. As he pointed on Friday, there is no deal on pardons. Kovacevski stated that the changes would modernise the Code, result in more efficient trials, concretise crimes, and see confiscation of illegally acquired assets. The same day, VMRO-DPMNE, commenting on President Stevo Pendarovski’ ...

On Wednesday, Parliament, at a plenary session, adopted the changes to the Criminal Code. Prior to the adoption, there had been a lot of reactions. First, at a committee debate, it was Deputy Justice Minister Viktorija Madic that tried to justify the changes to the Criminal Code. According to unofficial information, Minister Krenar Lloga disagrees with the changes that will ...

Parliament will form a committee of inquiry to determine political accountability for political and health officials over the Oncology Clinic’s work. The proposal was submitted on Tuesday by 20 VMRO-DPMNE MPs. The body will have one month after the end of its work to submit a final report to Parliament. It will be determining whether the patients’ fundamental human rights ...

While the CATO system was locked for years at the Oncology Clinic, then-Director Nino Vasev had final say on which patient would be given the expensive biological therapy because oncologists had to get approval exclusively signed by him, according to auditors from the State Audit Office. As they pointed out on Tuesday, when the procedure is such, there is room ...

The reactions to the developments related to the Oncology Clinic have continued. On Monday, the institution’s head, Violeta Klisarova, said that since she’d become the Director, all patients had received the prescribed therapy, without any manipulations. 12 doctors decide on the treatment method, the path of the medicines from the moment they are brought to the Clinic to the moment ...

On Monday, the opposition officially requested for Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi to put the need for constitutional changes up for a vote. As VMRO-DPMNE’s Parliamentary Group said, the procedure shouldn’t be stalled. However, Xhaferi again didn’t respond. His stand that he will convene the session once a two-thirds majority is secured remains. For that, he has the support from PM ...

Computers, digital data, and documentation were seized and taken away during Friday’s searches at the Oncology Clinic and homes of Clinic employees, the Prosecutor’s Office said on Saturday. The expertise will show whether there was therapy trade for profit. The searches are in the frames of a pre-investigation opened by the Office following the series of texts by the Fokus ...

According to VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski, the Government’s announcements that the country will have joined the EU by 2030 are manipulations and lies. “The Government has destroyed this process by accepting to implement something that the people doesn’t accept,” he said on Saturday. As he pointed out again, elections are the only way out. The following day, PM Dimitar Kovacevski ...