On Tuesday, Saso Mijalkov, former Director Security and Counter-intelligence Administration (UBK), was detained upon a request from the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO). Police handcuffed him in the Marriott in the centre of Skopje and took him to the investigative prison in Suto Orizari. The 30-day detention order for him had been issued in relation to the Target-Fortress case, run by ...

At the 104th session, held on Tuesday, the Government adopted a negative opinion about the draft amnesty law concerning people who are suspected, charged and convicted in the case concerning the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament, submitted by a group of MPs in Parliament. Also, a decision was made according to which the Justice Ministry will submit the draft ...

The Justice Ministry is working in an accelerated manner on completing the documentation for former PM Nikola Gruevski to be extradited from Hungary. “However, we cannot say when exactly it will be completed and sent to Budapest. We cannot provide more information about the situation because of the sensitivity of the materials. There are legal grounds for Macedonia to file ...

At the regional leader’s meeting in Vienna on Monday, organised by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the EU’s Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, said that countries from the Western Balkans (WB) had a European perspective, adding nonetheless that each would be evaluated separately on that path. Each country will be treated separately, according to its merits, ...

By mid-December, the Reconciliation Commission will need to propose a draft law concerning an amnesty in relation to the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament. The first draft version will be prepared at a meeting it will held by the end of the week. The idea, according to the independent parliamentary group of VMRO-DPMNE, upon whose demand the law is ...

Within the frameworks of his visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, President Gjorge Ivanov met PM Omar Razzaz, Senate President Faisal al-Fayez, House of Representatives Speaker Atef Tarawneh and House of Representatives members. At the meeting with Razzaz, Ivanov said his country had aspired for stable and friendly relations with Jordan since as early as the establishment of diplomatic ...

The Criminal Court has forwarded the appeals over the detention measure for former officials Mile Janakieski and Kiril Bozinovski to the Court of Appeals in Skopje, which will review them at a public session once it gets the necessary opinion from the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO). If the measure in the Titanic case is confirmed, the SPO will be able ...

In Friday’s interview with the Alsat-M TV show 360°, PM Zoran Zaev said former PM Nikola Gruevski would be brought back to Macedonia. In that regard, he pointed to the example of former Croatian PM Ivo Sanader. According to Zaev, if accountability is determined for anyone, including himself, they will be held accountable. “However, we cannot dismiss people because the ...

According to Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov, it will be better for both his country and Greece if Macedonia joins the EU and NATO sooner. “There’s no better place than the European Union. In Greece, too, when the crisis appeared, who actually helped it? Who stood next to it? The European Union. If, God forbid, a problem appears, who will help ...

The name deal will go forward and history will be very kind to Greek PM Alexis Tsipras and his Macedonian counterpart, Zoran Zaev, the US Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt said in a speech at the 3rd Summit in Thessaloniki. As the Ambassador added, the US, in cooperation with its European partners, intends to work very hard on the implementation ...