“The parties should sit at the table and discuss the constitutional amendments,” Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski said after some of the opposition parties from the Albanian political bloc set a condition that the wording “20 percent” in the Constitution be replaced by “Albanian language”, and in return they support the inclusion of Bulgarians and other nations in the Preamble of ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of North Macedonia, through its Embassy in Sofia, sent a verbal note expressing extreme dissatisfaction with the recent public statements of the member of the European Parliament and co-president of the VMRO-BND political party, Angel Dzhambazki. “Dzhambazki has on several occasions expressed irredentist and territorial claims against the Republic of North Macedonia ...

“Historians should deal with history, and politicians with politics,” says Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski, after the latest Bulgarian provocation, this time around thes canonization of Kiril Pejcinovic. On the same day when he was canonized in the Lesok monastery, part of the Bulgarian historians recognized politics again, and the Bulgarian professor Plamen Pavlov, apart from accusing that the act itself ...

“In the EC Report, the opposition is rated worse than the Government because of the blockades in the Parliament. If you look at all the areas in the latest report of the European Commission, the Republic of North Macedonia has made progress during the last year and it is additionally and extremely important that it is noted that the country ...

North Macedonia is making moderate progress according to almost all criteria, and there is good progress in the economic ones. Among other things, this is stated in the EC Report on North Macedonia’s progress. European Commissioner for Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi presenting part of the report before the European Parliament pointed to the necessity to continue the fight against corruption as ...

A package of economic measures was expected to be adopted at Wednesday’s session of the Economic Council, that didn’t happen. The business sector’s deadline had been Wednesday, announcing that, otherwise, a big number of enterprises would have to shut down. However, instead of a package, the Government and business sector agreed to adopt measures not later than next Wednesday or ...

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski will not be part of the Economic Council’s session on Wednesday to present the plan for dealing with the energy crisis. His stand is that there is no need to meet the same people from the Council who have so far not dealt with any crisis. Mickoski’s offer to save money and electricity, however, still stands. ...

The energy crisis and course of the screening process were the main topics at President Stevo Pendarovski’s meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Pendarovski said he expected assistance from the Commission in terms of the European solidarity in dealing with the energy crisis. Regarding the EU road, North Macedonia’s President said that the country was ready to ...

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski invited on Thursday PM Dimitar Kovacevski to a debate regarding his party’s proposal for overcoming the energy and heating crisis. According to the opposition leader, Kovacevski should name the time and place. The same day, answering a journalist’s question, Mickoski stated that he also demanded a meeting with the Government. Regarding the issue of parliamentary majority, ...

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani will not comment on the Skopje-Sofia relations during the Bulgarian elections. “I will not comment on the relations with Bulgaria during the elections there because then all statements of ours become part of the political fight and I really wouldn’t want to affect that process. I will keep my comments for after 2 October,” he stated ...