Bulgaria’s national interest regarding Macedonia is to have a stable and secure neighbor. It will be such when it will join NATO and the European Union, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva said. She said ‘the country will not compromise the conditions that have to be respected to become part of the entire EU negotiation process.’ […]
Parliament in Skopje is expected to start the third and final phase of debates regarding the constitutional amendments which are related to the Prespa agreement on the name issue. The parliamentary session is taking place without the participation of VMRO-DPMNE lawmakers, but the majority is convinced that it has the necessary 80 votes. PM Zoran […]
Manfred Weber, who will lead the European People’s Party (EPP), European election campaign, said that Greece-Macedonia name dispute has to be solved in order to give Macedonia a positive economic and European future. “Everybody knows that [the name dispute] has to be solved in order to give Macedonia a positive economic and European future,” Weber […]
In an interview with OPEN TV on Wednesday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ruled out the possibility of him leading a minority government, should his coalition with the Independent Greeks party break up over the Prespa Agreement. Alexis Tsipras said he believed junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos will not bring down the government, despite his strong […]
The third and final phase of constitutional amendments stemming from the Prespa Agreement signed with Greece is set to start today. In order for the proposed constitutional amendments to be enacted, two thirds of MPs should vote in favour. The country’s Prime Minister, Zoran Zaev has declared that he’s optimistic that the necessary 80 votes […]
Leader of VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski has declared that this party’s candidate will win the presidential elections which are expected to be held at the end of May this year. “I think that VMRO-DPMNE will achieve a landslide victory in the next presidential elections”, Mickoski said. He stressed that his party is transparent in the process […]
The results of the poll conducted on the topic “If they could, would they leave Macedonia?” by the fakulteti.mk portal show that even 83.7 percent of the respondents would leave Macedonia if they had a chance. In the poll that was opened two weeks ago, a total of 1,474 readers anonymously answered the questionnaire, and […]
The year, in which the most daring dreams of a large part of Macedonian citizens began, is coming to its end with political nightmares. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev still believes that in the new 2019, nightmares will become the past, and the dreams that have begun will be fulfilled. – We are nearing the end […]
We are nearing the end of one of the most important and most sensitive years for our country. The year of integration. May we turn our wishes and goals into a reality – a peaceful and stable country, an ally of NATO and a member of the EU, a global and just Macedonia with an […]
The Skopje Prosecution has charged seven Macedonian nationals with participating in foreign armed forces, police, paramilitary or para-police formations. “The defendants as foreign terrorist fighters actively took part in war conflicts in Syria and Iraq. With an intention to become part of paramilitary formations, they had left Macedonia and traveled to Syria, where they were […]
The only official from the previous government who ended up in prison and was sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison, Gjoko Popovski, won a smaller legal battle. The Court of Appeal abolished the nine-year sentence for the former assistant minister in the Interior Ministry for illegally procuring 300 vehicles for the Ministry […]
Let the beauty and warmth of Christmas fill the hearts of all believers who celebrate the great holiday – Christ’s birth, says Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in the congratulating note. “Let the spirit of Christmas fill the homes with peace and the joy of life, sharing it with close ones and friends. Let’s help all […]
“Our intention is to remember but to never allow for politics of division and conflict to resurrect,” PM Zaev said Monday. Tolerance is vital for establishing democratic relations between diverse social groups and a starting point for putting an end to injustice, hatred, fights in schools, streets or stadiums, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said. Zaev […]
Political parties in Macedonia have started to engage in strong debates concerning the developments taken place in the country during 2018. The leader of the biggest opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski declared that this year has been the worst ever for the country. “Progress has not been made and Macedonia can be compared to countries […]
“2019 will be the year when Macedonia is to open EU accession negotiations,” Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani told a press conference on Sunday. His expectations are based on the achievements in the historical 2018, the expectation for the finalization of obligations stemming from the Prespa Agreement, the implementation of the priorities set […]
University professor and former ambassador to the EU, Blerim Reka says that the final phase of constitutional amendments will be in a race against time in relation to Greece and the numbers in parliament. He says that the majority should look into possibilities on how to convince Macedonian opposition MPs who have abstained and 4 […]
Skopje continues to head the list of the most polluted cities in the world. AirVisual website, which publishes the list of the most polluted cities in the world, positions Skopje on the first place with the most polluted air in Europe and fifth in the world. After two days, when the air was cleaner due […]
The Foreign Ministry in Macedonia has responded to Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and VMRO party leader Krassimir Karakachanov’s threat to block the country’s path to the EU and NATO if its Prime Minister Zoran Zaev continues to claim the Prespa Agreement recognizes a “Macedonian language”. Words such as those by Karakachanov could create negative attitudes and hostility […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Greek newspaper Efimerida ton Syntakton that constitutional changes were imposed by blackmailing and bribing the lawmakers and by direct interference of foreign diplomats. Lavrov said that “large and continuous interfering of NATO and EU in the internal affairs of Macedonia is obvious.” “The referendum as it is […]
Brussels – NATO urges the government to reconsider and issue all security permits in the country after Macedonia’s accession to membership, sometime in 2020, to ensure that internal information from member states and the Alliance will not leak, or be abused. The reform of the intelligence and security services is one of the three key […]
