Regarding the Prosecutor’s Office’s comments the previous day that it hadn’t received a report about the bribe attempt over Corridor VIII, PM Mickoski said on Wednesday that he would fight corruption and crime by making public comments. “That’s my decision. That’s why I made the statement about the bribery attempt,” he added. According to Mickoski, since the tender process started ...

On Wednesday, VMRO-DPMNE MP Mile Lefkov made new accusations against former Culture Minister Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska. As he said, during a visit to Vienna, during her term as the Minister, she spent 1,213 euros in taxpayer money on renting a three-room flat for four nights in the centre of the Austrian capital. Lefkov asked why she hadn’t gone to a hotel, ...

On Tuesday, PM Hristijan Mickoski said adamantly the new government was in favour of the EU path being unblocked. However, he added that there should be a partner with which it would be able to communicate on the other side. He hopes that a political government will be formed in Bulgaria after the elections in that country at the end ...

On Tuesday, PM Hristijan Mickoski and European Affairs Minister Orhan Murtezani presented the Draft-Reform Agenda for the 2024-2027 period. It’s founded on four pillars, that is, strengthening EU integration, regional economic integration and cooperation with neighbours, speeding up fundamental reforms, and increasing financial assistance for reforms. “According to the formula, we should get 750,4 million euros for the 2024-2027 period. ...

On Monday, PM Hristijan Mickoski once again said there was a possibility of destabilisation in the period ahead. “There are political structures and forces in the country that, to protect what has been stolen by them, will exploit and manipulate a certain of group of people in order for that group to cause an ethnic incident and in order for ...

On Monday, VMRO-DPMNE MP Mile Lefkov again said his party was urging Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska to explain why she had abused taxpayer money during her term as Culture Minister during a visit to London in October of last year. According to the ruling party, over a four-day period, she spent 714 pounds in taxpayer money on, inter alia, soccer balls, teddy ...

“Democracy implies stable institutions. We’ll do everything to protect institutions,” PM Hristijan Mickoski said on Saturday, asked whether he still adhered to his stand that there were people working on destabilisation of the country. As he assessed, those who, during the term of the previous government, went from rags to riches and all those who would rage on the streets ...

On Saturday, PM Hristijan Mickoski said SDSM was urging Pance Toskovski to resign as the Interior Minister because of the fact that everyone now was held liable before the laws. “I understand SDSM. I cannot justify them, but I do understand them. There is one simple reason for that. They are afraid of Toskovski because they’re seeing that there aren’t ...

The Interior Ministry’s Department of Suppression of Organised and Serious Crime has submitted a notification to the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption over grounds of suspicions of criminal acts committed by official persons who made decisions on the issue of extradition of former KLA member Blerim Ramadani and acted on them. The Court, the ...

Commenting on SDSM’s latest allegations over the ex-KLA Blerim Ramadani case, PM Hristijan Mickoski has compared the party’s theses to intrigues defending Judge Pajazit Pajaziti, the one who made the decision changing the detention measure against Ramadani to a house arrest one. As he stressed on Thursday, if SDSM had evidence, it should make it public, without using a question ...