North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. At the meeting, Mitsotakis voiced his support for the opening of accession negotiations with the European Union and noted that consistent and timely implementation of the Prespa Agreement is […]
Former SPO head Katica Janeva did not give her testimony related to the “Racket” case on Tuesday, telling prosecutors she would do that once personally inspecting the evidence, her lawyer Irena Frchkoska told reporters upon the leaving the prosecutor’s office for organized crime and corruption. The evidence inspection will be carried out on Thursday, while […]
The trial in the “Titanic” case resumed today with the reading of the evidence collected by the Special Prosecutor’s Office and now taken over by the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Corruption. Before the hearing, defense lawyer Elenko Milanov said the authorization of prosecutor Lile Stefanova goes against the law on the Public Prosecutor’s […]
Former SPO head Katica Janeva was brought to the Prosecutor’s Office today where she is due to make a statement about the “Racket” affair. The police brought Janeva with a police van, handcuffed. Janeva has been in detention for more than 30 days and is suspected of abuse of office. Thee two other suspects Bojan […]
Yesterday around noon, the main suspect in the “Racket” case Bojan Jovanovski, who is known in the public as Boki 13, was escorted by the police to the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Corruption, where he was brought in for questioning. But the prosecutor in charge of the case, Vilma Ruskovska, surprised both him […]
Eight non-parliamentary parties – Glas za Makedonija, Edinstvena Makedonija, Levica, MAAK, Podem, the Labor-‐Agricultural Party, TMRO and FRODEM each make six demands regarding the Electoral Code and the conditions for “fair and democratic” elections. They demand a single-constituency model with no lower threshold and open lists. The D’Hondt model can be replaced by the Sainte-Laguë […]
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who is heading the Government delegation at the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York, is set to meet with Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday. This will be the first meeting between the two PMs after Mitsotakis assumed the post in July. PM Zaev is also scheduled […]
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev attended a dinner hosted by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini for Western Balkans heads of state and government at the EU Mission in the United Nations in New York on Sunday. PM Zaev said a few weeks are left before the EU Council summit, when […]
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini met Sunday in New York with prime ministers and ministers from the six countries of the Western Balkans. The meeting at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly discussed the region’s European perspective and the progress achieved. Interlocutors expressed their support […]
A new round of talks between the working groups of the ruling SDSM and opposition VMRO-DPMNE over the Law on Public Prosecution will be held on Monday in the Parliament, informs the Ministry of Justice. Monday’s meeting of working groups is the first since leaders’ talks held earlier this month failed to reach an agreement […]
According to Greek sources, North Macedonia’s PM Zoran Zaev and Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis are scheduled to meet on September 24th on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. This will be the first meeting of PMs Zaev and Mitsotakis of the two countries following Greece’s elections in early July. PM […]
Ex Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva will give a testimony on September 24 (Tuesday) before the Head of Public Prosecutor’s Office for organised crime and corruption Vilma Ruskoska, her lawyer Irena Danailova-Frckoska said in a interview with TV Alsat’s 360 Degrees. “Janeva was summoned again. She will give a testimony on Tuesday”, Frckoska said, answering […]
Minister of Justice Renata Deskoska said the security of the wiretapped materials in the Special Prosecutor’s Office has not been compromised, as the Public Prosecutor’s Office has taken over the jurisdiction and those materials now are under the formal care of this Prosecutor’s Office. “In line with the existing Law on Public Prosecutor’s Office, and […]
Citizens of the North Macedonia took part in the international climate change strike on Friday, organized throughout the world by Greta Thunberg’s movement ‘Friday for Future’. Protests kicked off early in the day in Asia and Australia, where tens of thousands of young people and adults joined the protests to demand no new coal or […]
Businessman Zoran Azmanov gave a testimony at the Public Prosecution in which he said the prime suspect in the Racket case Bojan Jovanovski was threatening him with the publication of documents from the SPO and the Financial Police. Bojan Jovanovski had threatened Azmanov, he said, over the phone as the Macedonian Insider TV-show was being […]
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has taken over 171 cases from the Special Prosecutor’s Office -SPO, the PPO told the media. “The PPO has taken over three cases for which there are final judgments, two cases with a first-instance judgment, 20 cases in trial stage, 19 cases in investigation stage, six cases in pre-investigative stage, 80 […]
Skopje is waiting for the NATO membership process to be completed by the end of the year, and next month to receive a date for the start of negotiations with the European Union. President Stevo Pendarovski has expressed optimism that the European Council will set a date next month for the start of accession negotiations […]
The Special Prosecutor’s Office employees go to work every day and wait for the Ministry of Justice to amend the Law on Public Prosecutor’s Office so they can pick up their next salary, now that they are officially “beheaded”, without a head special prosecutor and other prosecutors. While they are in limbo and have no […]
Newly appointed Finance Minister Nina Angelovska elaborating the proposal for amending the budget before lawmakers, said it provides allocation of greater share of public revenues to citizens, direct investment in people’s needs and potentials and strong financial support for business to create new jobs as well as payment of higher salaries in the private sector […]
North Macedonia’s chances of becoming a NATO member at the December summit have been reduced to theoretical after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s attempt to form a government failed. The ratification of Macedonia’s NATO accession protocol has not been passed in Italy, the UK, the United States, Spain and Iceland, while in the Netherlands the […]
