In an interview with Fokus, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski says regarding the Referendum Initiative rejection that Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi unlawfully played the role of a Constitutional Court judge. He adds that only the Constitutional Court can interpret the Constitution. In Mickoski’s view, the ruling structure is aware that there would be a turnout in a referendum because the people ...

On Tuesday, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi rejected VMRO-DPMNE’s Referendum Initiative concerning the deal with Bulgaria. As he explains in the answer to the President of the opposition party, Hristijn Mickoski, that the Initiative is not in line with the Constitution, which says international deals that are ratified are part of the internal legal order and cannot be changed by law. ...

VMRO-DPMNE will not support a change of the Constitution, regardless of the referendum result, party leader Hristijan Mickoski said on Monday. He believes the referendum process will be successful. However, as the opposition leader stressed, regardless of the result, even if it fails, the party will not support a constitutional change under the current circumstances. Mickoski also answered a question ...

On Friday, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski urged PM Dimitar Kovacevski and President Stevo Pendarovski to support the process to organise the referendum initiated by his party. As he added, they shouldn’t obstruct it in Parliament through Speaker Talat Xhaferi and should instead allow 150,000 signatures to be collected in order for citizens to be able to freely express their stand. ...

Until the deal with Sofia is abandoned, VMRO-DPMNE will not support constitutional changes, opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski said at a press-conference on Tuesday. He is adamant that his party is not against Bulgarians being part of the Constitution. However, Mickoski described the deal as assimilatory, adding that it should be abandoned. The collection of signatures will start on Wednesday afternoon. ...

At a session on Monday, VMRO-DPMNE’s Executive Committee decided to adopt a referendum question. Citizens answering will say whether they are in favour of abandonment of the Law on Ratification of the Treaty on Friendship, Good-Neighbourliness, and Cooperation between Skopje and Sofia. At a press-conference, opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski said he supported EU integration, but he didn’t support assimilation and ...

On the sidelines of the Open Balkan summit in Belgrade, Justice Minister Nikola Tupanceski held a meeting with his Serbian counterpart, Maja Popovic. The meeting was attended by Livija Pavicevic, State Secretary at the Serbian Justice Ministry, and Dejan Carevic of Serbia’s Administration for Enforcement of Penal Sanctions. The Ministers agreed to hold joint conference at which experiences will be ...

According to PM and SDSM President Dimitar Kovacevski, his party’s win in the extraordinary local elections in all places where it had a candidate is a message that citizens look forward and manage to unmask, as he says, the cheap populism. “Several things are clear from the elections. First and foremost, in tough times, citizens can recognise who truly works ...

Multiple cars have remained stuck as a result of the heavy rainfall in Skopje on Tuesday afternoon. Fire-fighters and police teams are participating in extracting citizens from the vehicles, it was reported in the evening. Most problems were registered at the critical points of the underpasses near the Aleksandar Palace and Continental hotels, and near the former Most department store. ...

At the Bled Strategic Forum on Monday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the Western Balkans are part of the European family. “Let there be no doubt: Our friends from the Western Balkans are part of our European family. The Danube, the Adriatic and the Balkan mountains have always been a link, never a border. Our economies are ...