There will be no leaders’ meeting at which early elections will be the topic. PM Dimitar Kovacevski hasn’t changed his stand that the parliamentary election process will take place in 2024. The Government is currently focused on dealing with the energy and healthcare crisis. On the other hand, Mickoski believes there will be elections sooner or later in which citizens, ...

North Macedonia is missing optimism that the European values and principles are still a reality. The message was sent from Munich by PM Dimitar Kovacevski, who urged European leaders to find a formula to keep their world and show in practice that the enlargement process with the Western Balkans is alive. On the third day of the Security Conference, Kovacevski ...

The case concerning 28-year-old TV presenter Besmira Ejupi’s potential diplomatic career lasted 48 hours, that is, from one closed session of the Government to another one. On Tuesday, she was confirmed as a candidate for the position of Consul general in New York – New Jersey. On Thursday however, her name was removed from the list of future diplomats. According ...

PM Dimitar Kovacevski has said nothing is being hidden from the public regarding the talks with Bulgaria. According to him, the experts from the two sides are working on the open political issues, while the other working groups should improve relations in the spheres of common interest. Kovacevski stated on Wednesday that once there was a solution acceptable to both ...

France’s support for a start of EU negotiations for Skopje and Tirana is unreserved. Ambassador Cyrille Baumgartner believes that the Skopje-Sofia dialogue represents a new approach in the negotiations, which both sides desire. “Our stand is the same and hasn’t changed, with that being opening of negotiations. All European intuitions share the same stand,” he notes. Regarding the possibility of ...

“Unity isn’t achieved by creating hysteria over the negotiations with Bulgaria,” PM Dimitar Kovacevski said on Monday in response to VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski’s call for national unification around state interests. Kovacevski doesn’t see sincerity in the call. In the PM’s view, there are two reasons for that – VMRO-DPMNE’s rejection of the invitation to participate in the working groups ...

Confessing is a moral act, we feel a need to assume responsibility, which is something one shouldn’t run away from. That was the way in which eight defendants explained on Friday why they decided to confess in the Titanic case, in which they are tried for electoral irregularities. In tears, they said the trial had harmed them and their families. ...

Parliament rejected on Thursday VMRO-DPMNE’s proposal to annul the so-called Przino format of Government. There were 32 votes in favour and 55 against. Though the ruling majority had previously said it was in favour of annulment, its stand is that there should be consensus from all parties. Alliance for Albanians is against. The provisions for the functioning of the Przino ...

On Tuesday, PM Dimitar Kovacevski received a phone call from his Bulgarian counterpart. Kiril Petkov asked for information about the two incidents in Skopje and Bitola. The wreaths laid by the Bulgarian delegation at Goce Delcev’s grave in the capital were damaged, while in Bitola, the glasses of the Vanco Mihailov Club were broken. Kovacevski said he told Petkov the ...

According to Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, the Declaration on Goce Delcev filed by VMRO-DPMNE is taking the country backwards in the negotiations with Bulgaria. As he said on Tuesday, there was a similar initiative by Krasimir Karakachanov’s VMRO in Sofia’s Parliament regarding Ss Cyril and Methodius. Osmani pointed out that history shouldn’t be used as a platform to build political ...