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 ...

SDSM has asked VMRO-DPMNE to withdraw the Declaration on Goce Delcev. According to the ruling party, it is one of VMRO-DPMNE’s political and populist games that harm the revolutionary’s life and work. SDSM MP Jovan Mitreski said on Monday his party wouldn’t be part of the “daily political theatrics” that could harm the integration processes. “They have missed the topic ...

Culture Minister Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojchevska and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Teodora Genchovska, on Friday, one after another, laid flowers at Goce Delcev’s grave in Skopje on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth. The presence of the two delegations had been announced by Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov as joint celebration, while North Macedonia’s Government announced the event as state marking ...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, after the meeting with PM Dimitar Kovacevski in Brussels, welcomed North Macedonia’s efforts to promote security, stability and progress in the region. “This includes your contributions to NATO’s peacekeeping mission in Kosovo,” he stated. At the meeting, they talked about the security of the Western Balkans as one of the main priorities of NATO and ...