“In light of the limited time available and the importance of the matter, the Council will revert to the issue with a view to reaching a clear and substantive decision as soon as possible and no later than October 2019,” reads a conclusion of the General Affairs Council (GAC) that was held on Tuesday in Luxembourg. EU Member States didn’t ...

On the occasion of the Prespa Agreement’s first anniversary, PM Zoran Zaev said the signing of the deal had been worth it, considering the benefits. “Today, 17 June, one year since Prespa, we’ve first gotten a new friend. Not that we had had some serious hostilities with Greece, but the feeling, really, was bad, bitter, when we were stopped in ...

Renata Deskoska, Dragan Tevdovski, Frosina Remenski and Petre Silegov are among those that will be members of SDSM’s new Executive Board, the party decided at the Central Board session in Ohrid on Sunday. The Executive Board will also include Blagojce Bocvarski, Kostadin Kostadinov, Esras Alihi, Gjoko Tanasoski, Vesna Gersan, Vasko Talevski, Tanja Stojanovska-Ivanova, Ljatifa Sikovska, Stefan Bogoev, Keti Vasilevska, Nina ...

The Macedonian Parliament accepted the resignation of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski today. Gruevski resigned as member of Parliament after a procedure was initiated to strip him of his mandate due to his absence for more than six months. Over this period, he’s been in Hungary, where he received political asylum after the campaign of persecution aimed at him and ...

According to PM Zoran Zaev, the information that German Chancellor Angela Markel disagrees with Macedonia being given a date for negotiations is old. As he said on Friday, conversations about this issue at the highest level, but also with parliamentarians, are still underway. The PM announced a meeting with Merkel, too. “I’m glad that a message for an exact term ...

If Macedonia doesn’t get a date to start membership negotiations with the EU by this summer, PM Zoran Zaev will return the mandate. On Thursday, he also announced that among the options are early parliamentary elections and assuming responsibility for an unsuccessful process, too. The PM remains optimistic that EU members will at the Summit in July reward the reforms ...

According to PM Zoran Zaev, the EU potentially delaying the decision on membership negotiations will put the government in Macedonia in danger. As he said in Brussels on Wednesday, when it comes to each decision concerning enlargement, the Bundestag must previously give a green light. “The Bundestag must send a message, if they don’t make a decision at the session ...

The PM Zoran Zaev started on Tuesday his official visit to Brussels, where he met the President of the European Commission (EC) Jean-Claude Juncker and the EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn. At a mutual press conference, Juncker and Hahn congratulated Zaev on the progress made by Macedonia so far, pointing it out as the best progress example from the entire ...

The Macedonian government organised on Sunday in Skopje a conference titled “Two Years of Government – Responsibility before the Citizens”. At the conference, PM Zoran Zaev along with all Vice-PMs, Radmila Sekerinska, Oliver Spasovski, Bujar Osmani and Koco Angjusev, spoke about the accomplishments of the government in the past two years, i.e. the first half of their mandate. “Starting with ...

SDSM is satisfied with the EC Progress Report on Macedonia. “We received yesterday the most positive Report. The European Commission gave a clean, unconditional recommendation for a start of EU negotiations for the Republic of North Macedonia. Our country is pointed out as ‘a shining example’ in the entire region,” SDSM MP Hari Lokvenec says. Commenting on the matter, VMRO-DPMNE, ...