Thursday evening, test results for person that traveled from Rome and contacted the Infectious Diseases Clinic with signs of the flu were being processed. The results will be ready in an hour and a half after which the public will be informed, Health Minister Venko Filipce said at an afternoon press conference. Two patients who were tested previously, a truck ...

The Chief of Greek diplomacy, Nikos Dendias, at the opening of the conference titled “From Thessaloniki to Zagreb”, where FM, Nikola Dimitrov also participated, stated that the Western Balkan countries European neighbours confirm that the region is integral part of Europe. Speaking at the session “Furthering European integration of the Western Balkans: Current challenges and perspectives”, Dendias underlined that Thessaloniki ...

President, Stevo Pendarovski met with EP MPs, Parliamentary Group “Renew Europe” President, Dacian Ciolos and EP Rapporteur for the country, Ilhan Kyuchyuk. According to the press-release from the President’s Cabinet, opinions on the aspirations of the country toward EU membership were exchanged during the meeting. President Pendarovski underlined the importance of the principle support by the EP in the enlargement ...

Judge Vesna Dimiskova brother, lawyer Vasil Dimiskov, was the first witness at Thursday’s hearing over the Extortion case. Dimiskova is the one who’d issued a detention measure against businessperson Jordan Kamcev in the Empire case. Kamcev, in the capacity of witness in the Extortion process, had said at the start of the trial that the lawyer, too, had been part ...

On Wednesday, VMRO-DPMNE MP Antonio Milososki handed over to the Prosecutor’s Office the audio material played by him last week in Parliament. According to him, both the material and the transcript raise serious suspicions that SDSM leader and former PM Zoran Zaev was aware, for a longer period of time, of the manner of financing of International Alliance. Milososki added ...

Several EU Member States, led by Poland, with visits to Skopje and Tirana, are starting a diplomatic offensive aiming at a date for Macedonia and Albania as early as March. As Kanal 5 TV said on Tuesday, citing sources from Brussels, a delegation of foreign ministers are planning to visit the two countries towards the start of next month in ...

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi has sent the decision scheduling the early parliamentary elections for 12 April to relevant institutions. He said at a press-conference on Monday that institutions had the obligation to create conditions for a free, fair, and democratic election process. As regards Sunday’s vote on the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) Law, he said he had annulled the first ...

On Sunday, Parliament adopted the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) Law and the changes to the Defence and Public Prosecutors Council Laws. There was a tense atmosphere during the vote on the PPO document. At the start, 74 MPs voted in favour, whereas 32 were against. Speaker Talat Xhaferi annulled the vote because MP Liljana Popovska had previously requested to speak, ...

Parliament’s session about the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) Draft Law has been rescheduled for Friday. Though it started at 10 pm on Thursday, Speaker Talat Xhaferi decided to reschedule it for 11 am the following day. VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM coordinators Nikola Micevski and Jovan Mitreski, respectively, had remarks, with the former saying it was unprincipled for MPs to be waiting ...

The Foreign Affairs Committee, upon a proposal of the Bureau (presidency) of Spain’s Congress, has accepted the initiative to start an urgent procedure for ratification of Macedonia’s NATO protocol, 360 Stepeni reported on Tuesday. According to the acts published on the official website of the Spanish Congress, the Bureau made the decision on Monday, with a request to the Committee ...