Before fleeing the country, Macedonia’s former PM, Nikola Gruevski had sent a letter to EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn, EU chief of diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, EU Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic and the chairman of EPP, Joseph Daul. In this letter, Gruevski wrote that the two year prison sentence that he was given relied […]
Judge in Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) case dubbed Titanic ordered Wednesday a 30-day detention for former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, who has fled to Hungary. The detention order will be activated upon Gruevski’s return to the country. Titanic refers to crimes related to election irregularities. Twenty-one individuals are indicted in the case, including former prime minister […]
Brussels – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said today that the protection given by NATO’s member state Hungary to the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is not an issue for NATO, but something that should be resolved between Skopje and Budapest. “That’s not for me to comment. It is an issue that has to be […]
The leaders of three opposition parties represented in the Hungarian parliament in an open letter called a “disgrace” the granting of asylum by the Viktor Orbán-led government to former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, reports Euractiv. “It is unacceptable that we should learn from the foreign press that the Hungarian government gave asylum in our […]
The Ministry of Justice has not yet received response regarding extradition request for fugitive former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski from the competent ministry in Hungary, Justice Minister Renata Treneska Deskoska said at Sunday’s press conference. “The proper deadlines for response have not expired. We will wait, if we do not receive response within the deadlines, […]
MEPs adopted the two amendments that require Hungary to extradite Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to Macedonia. The Social Democrats and the Greens a few days ago made separate amendments on the subject, but it was feared that the amendment proposed by the Greens would not pass because of its harsher content. The amendment submitted by […]
The government knew about the political asylum of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, and the most responsible for his escape is Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski. This is the perception and opinion of the citizens who were part of the public opinion survey, part of the Telma and MCIC project conducted by M-prospect – Skopje. The […]
Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi has scheduled the plenary session over the issue of stripping Nikola Gruevski of his MP immunity on Tuesday afternoon at 17:00h. Earlier in the day, the Parliament’s Committee on Rules of Procedure and Mandatory-Immunity Issues endorsed the six motions by the court for stripping Gruevski of his MP immunity, for the […]
The Parliament’s Committee on Rules of Procedure and Mandatory-Immunity Issues has endorsed the six motions by the court for stripping of Nikola Gruevski of his MP immunity, for the purpose of ordering detention. VMRO-DPMNE MPs did not attend the session. The decision will be forwarded to the Parliament Speaker, who is set to schedule a […]
The Parliament has received five motions for termination of the MP immunity of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who recently escaped and received political asylum in Hungary. The motions will be discussed at Tuesday’s session of the Committee for Rules of Procedure and Mandatory-Immunity Issues. Gruevski was sentenced to two years imprisonment for abuse of […]
The investigation will reveal the details over Gruevski’s escape, but the question remains how have four friendly countries allowed this to happen, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Sunday. “I have been briefed by the Ministry of Interior and I believe the public will know soon the details on developments in Macedonia, since we already […]
Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev denied having any communication with Nikola Gruevski prior to his escape. “If so, it would seem as if we arranged that. I have not had any communication with Gruevski since I became Prime Minister. The last communication was at the time of the Parliament’s endless debate prior to the April […]
Hungarian intelligence took part in facilitating the escape of a former Macedonian prime minister Nikola Gruevski to Hungary, two individuals with knowledge of the matter told Politico. Nikola Gruevski served as Macedonia’s prime minister until 2016 and was due to start a jail sentence earlier this month over corruption charges when he suddenly left the country […]
The US Department of State said it’s paying special attention to Gruevski’s case, especially now that he has been granted political asylum in Hungary, reads the Hungarian newspaper Népszava. Asked by Hungarian newspaper Népszava, the US Department of State reaffirmed its previous position by pointing out that Gruevski was sentenced to two years in prison […]
On November 13, the day when former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski announced that he had fled to Budapest, the Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva, claimed to the Macedonian public that there was no reason to demand detention for his cousin Saso Mijalkov. “There are already measures for Saso Mijalkov and he respects them, as Nikola […]
The Hungarian government excludes the possibility of extraditing former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to Macedonia, Hungarian Justice Minister László Trócsányi said today. – Gruevski, after receiving asylum in Hungary, can not be sent to a country where he is being persecuted, said Trócsányi in an interview with Hungarian Echo TV. The Hungarian Immigration and Refugee Service […]
In a Twitter post, EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn says he will expect, if confirmed, a sound explanation of the grounds on which Hungary has approved ex-PM Nikola Gruevski’s asylum request from the country’s premier Viktor Orban. “The rule of law remains a fundamental principle for Member States and accession candidates alike. It is crucial for […]
Macedonia’s Ministry of Justice has sent the request for the extradition of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski to the Ministry of Justice of Hungary Tuesday afternoon. “The extradition request is in reference to a verdict rendered by a court involving a two-year prison sentence and to four criminal proceedings under way in domestic courts. We […]
“Today the Republic of Hungary, an EU and NATO member country, approved my previously submitted request for political asylum for political persecution in the Republic of Macedonia. In the request for political asylum I stated that I am apply for it due to political persecution by the new government led by the SDSM party. I have learned […]
The Immigration and Asylum Office of Hungary has taken a decision over the request of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski for political asylum in the country, report local media on Tuesday morning. Hungarian media publish the information from Hungarian Times, citing government and office sources, says the decision was taken through an urgent procedure, without […]
