Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi held on Tuesday a regular coordination meeting with Parliamentary Group Coordinators and representatives of parties represented in Parliament. The issue of presentation of the Corridors VIII and X-d deal was on the agenda too. “The stand of those present is that considering that the initiative is of the opposition yet the opposition is not attending the ...

VMRO-DPMNE disagrees with First Deputy PM Artan Grubi’s stands regarding the activities of Bechtel and ENKA in Serbia. “Serbia didn’t adopt laws in contradiction with the Constitution, didn’t put an equals sign between legal and illegal structures, and it received many more legal structures for a smaller amount of money,” VMRO-DPMNE Spokesperson Naum Stoilkovski says. According to Grubi, Bechtel and ...

Expectedly, the session for parliamentary questions, held on Thursday, focused on the Corridors case, that is, the deal with Bechtel and ENKA. The questions concerned the secrecy of the deal, penalties in the event of non-fulfilment of items of the document, as well as legal changes in relation to the process. VMRO-DPMNE’s Bojan Stojanoski asked the PM, Dimitar Kovacevski, a ...

Former European Court of Human Rights Judge Margarita Caca-Nikolovska is the President of the working group for constitutional changes. Former Constitutional Court Judge Bajram Pollozhani is the Deputy. On Wednesday, the 23 members held the constitutive session, at which they agreed to start work after the Labour Day (1 May) holidays. According to President Stevo Pendarovski, North Macedonia will not ...

MPs with a security certificate are waiting for the deal with Bechtel and ENKA. VMRO-DPMNE said on Monday an additional 196 million euros, at least, will need to be paid over the next five years. In response, the ruling party said Hristijan Mickoski’s party was lying that penalties would be paid if the package of laws in relation to the ...

On Saturday, First Deputy PM Artan Grubi, Coordinator over the project for Corridor VIII, was nowhere to be found to mark the official start. There was silence also from Transport and Communications Minister Blagoj Bocvarski, even though he’d promised he would send a location to media. However, a press-release came instead. The implementation is starting, but only on paper. The ...

The Justice Ministry has revealed the names of the experts that will be part of the working group for constittonal changes. Professors Bajram Polozhani, Jeton Shasivari, Ana Cupeska, Elena Mihajlova – Stratilati, Besa Arifi, Jagoda Mitrevska, and Marija Pandevska, former Supreme Court Presidents Branko Naumovski and Sali Murati, as well as Margarita Caca Nikolovska, former Judge at the European Court ...

According to VMRO-DPMNE, Bujar Osmani should resign as Foreign Minister because he spoke only in Albanian at the press-conference with Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union, and Cooperation, Jose Manuel Albares Bueno. The party’s Spokesperson, Marija Miteva, stated that that Osmani had humiliated all citizens. As she added, it’s clear what the official language is for international use. In ...

The Justice Ministry has announced the names of the participants in the working group for constitutional changes, nominated by parties and institutions. They are: Cvetanka Ivanova (SDSM), Arber Ademi (DUI), Remzi Mehmedi (Alliance for Albanians), Sonja Mirakovska (NSDP), Nano Ruzin (LDP), Hrista Najdanov (DOM), Temelko Risteski (Party of Pensioners), Rametulla Kuci (DPA), Eran Kurtish (Party for Movement of Turks), and ...

Croatian PM Andrej Plenkovic paid an official visit to North Macedonia on Wednesday. In Skopje, Plenkovic attended and addressed a session in the Parliament, speaking of the importance of the integration in the EU for North Macedonia and its citizens. “Take the Croatian experience as example. Thanks to the integration in the EU, today we have a great amount of ...