At the session for parliamentary questions, held on Thursday, VMRO-DPMNE MPs asked why the decision to merge the concessions for the Ilovica-Stuka mines hadn’t been annulled so far and why the country was putting itself at risk of paying millions as a result of arbitration disputes. The Government has failed to solve the problem for seven years, they added. PM ...

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has opened 36 investigations for the Western Balkan countries, Euronews Albania has reported, adding that these investigations, which have been made public and are accessible on OLAF’s official website, are reported to have been conducted over the past 5 years. According to the data, 18 of 36 investigations initiated for the Western Balkan beneficiary countries ...

The Government has received 15 days to prepare the text of the constitutional amendments. Alliance for Albanians and Alternative said in the frames of Tuesday’s session of the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs that they were not satisfied with the non-acceptance of their amendments in the initiative for the changes. BESA MP Fadil Zendeli said his party would support the ...

VMRO-DPMNE’s stand on the constitutional changes issue remains unchanged. As the party’s leader, Hristijan Mickoski, said on Monday, VMRO-DPMNE MPs will participate in the work of the Constitutional Changes Committee and vote against the item for the changes being put on the agenda. According to the opposition leader, it’s unclear why the Government submitted to Parliament also the text of ...

MPs will first debate the matter of constitutional changes on Tuesday, 25 July. The process will be headed by Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi, in the capacity of Constitutional Changes Committee Chairperson. VMRO-DPMNE has announced it will be present and actively participate, though its stand that there will be no constitutional changes “under a Bulgarian dictate” remains unchanged. However, Xhaferi says ...

US Ambassador Angela Aggeler held a press-conference yesterday at which she discussed the designation of Jordan “Orce” Kamcev. “Yesterday, the United States Department of Treasury designated Jordan “Orce” Kamcev under Executive Order 14033 for corrupt acts and criminal offences. I hope recent actions from Washington have made it very clear that the United States can and will continue to use ...

The proposal for constitutional changes has entered Parliament. Speaker Talat Xhaferi said on Wednesday it had been submitted to MPs. The plenary session has been scheduled for 18 August. Previously, it will be considered by the Committee on Constitutional Issues on 25 July. The debate lasts up to 10 working days. According to Xhaferi, if there is political will, the ...

At a session on Tuesday, the Government adopted the text of the initiative for constitutional changes and decided for the document to be submitted to Parliament. According to the initiative, Bulgarians and another five peoples will be included in the Preamble and Articles 49 and 78, that is, the Bulgarian people, Croatian people, Montenegrin people, Slovenian people, Jewish people, and ...

On Monday, Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic met in Skopje with France’s Laurence Boone, Minister of State for Europe, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, German Minister for Europe Anna Luehrmann, and Poland’s Minister for the EU, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek. French Minister Boone said North Macedonia belonged to the European family. According to her, ...

On Saturday, in Chaniotis, Greece, a citizen of North Macedonia, Orhan Bajrami – Oki, was fatally shot, while another citizen, Sead Slezovic, was hospitalised in Polygyros with serious wounds. The attackers were wearing balaclavas, came by motorbike in the middle of the night, and fired over 20 bullets, Telma reported on Saturday afternoon. According to Greek media, when police came ...