Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has initiated the vetting procedure for judges and prosecutors. He has asked the Anti-Corruption Commission to check the properties of judges and prosecutors, and the Judicial Council and the Council of Prosecutors to check the accountability of judges and prosecutors for cases that have not been prosecuted. In a video address […]
The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia finds the renewed approach in the EU enlargement process promoted by France, in which rule of law and fundamental rights remain an integral requirement while reversibility of the negotiating process a key aspect, worth saluting since “any idea that contributes to the faster start of North Macedonia’s […]
The Government of North Macedonia has accepted the proposal put forward by Minister without Portfolio in charge of Communications, Accountability, and Transparency Robert Popovski for the new 2019 Program to Support the Publication and Distribution of Printed Media. 50,000,000 denars from the national budget will be allocated to print media. Next, the General Secretariat of […]
President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski will pay an official visit to the Republic of Serbia on November 22. President Pendarovski will be welcomed with highest state and military honors by Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic, followed by a meeting and a joint press conference, the President’s Office said in a press release. President Pendarovski will […]
Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, is coming on an official visit to the Republic of North Macedonia on Tuesday. Government sources say Tusk is to meet with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev followed by a joint press conference scheduled to begin at noon. Tusk’s visit to Skopje is ahead of an expected decision to […]
Nina Angelovska is the new finance minister, while Hisen Xhemaili is elected minister without portfolio. Deputy Ministers were also appointed after a two-day debate in the Assembly, which included discussions on the economy, foreign investment, the rule of law and early elections. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said the current government would extend its mandate by […]
As of September, the salaries of employees in primary, secondary and high education would increase by 5 percent, the Government decided at its 150th session. The Minister of Education and Science is to prepare a document on new coefficients in line with the 5 percent increase, the Government said in a press release. In addition, […]
North Macedonia’s Government has set up an operational team to join the fight against crime and corruption. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski was appointed to serve at the helm of the operational team. “The government at the session reached a decision to set up an operational team so as to, in […]
North Macedonia’s Parliament is set to hold its last plenary session before its four-week summer recess.Today’s is the 109th plenary session. Parliament summer recess ends on August 27. During today’s session, legislators will consider a proposal to send Army of North Macedonia troops to the Resolute Support mission in Afganistan; proposed changes to the Law […]
While authorities in Skopje have not yet released data on the number of people who have left to EU countries, these figures were released from German authorities. According to the German Bureau of Statistics, in 2018, the total number of citizens from North Macedonia who have gone to Germany is 18.478. Of them, 7812 have […]
The Government adopted the draft law on the State Inspectorate for the use of languages, a new body within the Ministry of Justice. The draft law has been forwarded to the Parliament, the Government said in a press release. The law aims to supervise the implementation of the Law on the Use of Languages in […]
At the proposal of the Ministry of Justice, North Macedonia’s Government will consider the draft-law on Public Prosecution, as well as the draft-law on amendments to the law on the Public Prosecutors’ Council at today’s session. The new law on public prosecution proposes that the Special Public Prosecution should be integrated into the existing Public […]
It is quite certain that 2020 will be a year of elections, but these days the uncertainty again increases whether the elections for the “jubilee” tenth parliamentary composition will be the first regular elections in more than a decade, or they will be early and held several months earlier. Unlike before, when holding early elections […]
Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev says he expects strategic partnership and good neighbourly relations with Greece to continue even after the arrival of a new government in this country. Zaev stated this last evening in a televised interview. He said that the new Greek PM, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is careful with the Prespes Agreement. […]
There’s no agreement yet for a leaders’ meeting with VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski to discuss three issues – the Special Public Prosecution, census and the Electoral Code, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. The Prime Minister said he expected a leaders’ meeting to be scheduled soon. “If the opposition and other stakeholders have other issues that […]
At the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government has adopted the Information on the first meeting of the North Macedonia-Bulgaria Joint Intergovernmental Committee established as a result of the Friendship Treaty signed between the two countries, which was held in Sofia on June 10, 2019. At a government session on Tuesday, ministers […]
In the past few weeks, even months, the government has been under intense pressure from the opposition (which is completely expected, because it is its job), but also from the democratic public, which is much more painful because its criticism is far more realistic. Just as one fire is out, another one starts burning. The […]
The visitors who came to meetings with the Secretary General of the Government Dragi Rashkovski never left their mobile phones at security check, so anyone could make a “reality show” out of this institution. This is the point of the response we received from the Government when asked whether the visitors who come to meetings, […]
Government Secretary General Dragi Rashkovski said he would take the matter to court after an audio recording was leaked in connection to a tender for the procurement of an air navigation system, which prompted reports about his alleged illegal involvement in the procedure. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, he said he wasn’t planning […]
An unusual morning scene in the Budapest Court. Former Prime Minister Gruevski with his trademark sunglasses Maybach and a baseball hat, as if he was on a beach in Tel Aviv, entered the courtroom, accompanied by police officers in civilian attire, where they decided on the request of the North Macedonian authorities for his extradition. […]
