Tag: gruevski
Macedonia 30.04.20 | 11:30

Gruevski on Macedonia’s reliance on foreign aid: Are we going to be a nation of beggars?

Instead of relying on our own forces to fight the coronavirus epidemic, Macedonia resembles a country of beggars, fighting over medical aid sent from abroad, writes former Prime Minister and VMRO leader Nikola Gruevski. There are three countries in Eurpoe where the culture of living is based on receiving...

Macedonia 28.03.20 | 17:22

Nikola Gruevski blasts Zaev’s idea to cut public sector wages

Former Prime Minister and VMRO leader Nikola Gruevski condemned the idea put forward by SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev to dramatically cut public sector wages in an attempt to plug the growing hole in the budget. Gruevski reminded the public that he steered Macedonia through various crises but never proposed...

Macedonia 28.02.20 | 20:50

Gruevski, Gruevski, Gruevski… Zaev debates Mickoski using guilt by association

During the televised Kanal 5 TV duel with Hristijan Mickoski so far, Zoran Zaev keeps returning to the allegation that Mickoski is surrounded with advisers from worked with former Prime Minister and VMRO leader Nikola Gruevski. Zaev is also accusing Mickoski about the April 27 2017 incident in the Parliament,...

Macedonia 26.02.20 | 21:41

Nikola Gruevski: Zaev himself acknowledged that his campaign of political persecution is based on inadmissible, edited recordings

Former Prime Minister and VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski denied the latest allegations raised against him by prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska, in which he is charged with the April 2017 incident in the Parliament. Ruskoska is broadening the extensive trial which was already used to pressure VMRO officials...

Macedonia 04.02.20 | 20:46

Gruevski on Delcev: The Macedonian issue will be resolved only when it benefits the Macedonians

The Macedonian issue will be resolved only when it benefits the Macedonians, and the pressure we now face will just make our sense of national identity stronger, said former VMRO leader Nikola Gruevski on the anniversary of the birth of legendary Macedonian leader Goce Delcev. The anniversary is marked...

Macedonia 14.01.20 | 13:48

Nikola Gruevski comments on the TNT trial, says it’s a scheme to grab 40 million EUR from the state budget

Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who is one of the defendants in the TNT case (as in most other cases initiated by the now disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office), offered his opinion on the trial now that it is expected to begin anew, from the start. Gruevski is charged with ordering the...

Macedonia 07.01.20 | 21:01

Let’s regain what was lost, Gruevski says in his Christmas message

Let’s regain what was lost, Nikola Gruevski wished, in the Christmas message he shared today with the Macedonian public from his political exile in Hungary. Macedonia needs to go forward and again become strong and a source of pride for its citizens. Let’s hope our wins are more numerous...

Economy 05.12.19 | 11:10

Nikola Gruevski denies OCCRP report that he was planning an off shore zone in Macedonia

Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski dismissed reports from the OCCRP investigative network that he was trying to create an off shore financial zone in Macedonia. OCCRP, which has focused on reported alleged abuse on the part of Gruevski during the Colored Revolution, published a new report claiming...

Macedonia 19.11.19 | 17:34

Zaev’s supporters in the media attack his own model of Albanian language use, in an attempt to hit out at Nikola Gruevski

Journalists and commentators supportive of the Zaev regime and its policies went had a hissy fit after Merxhan Dauti, an ethnic Albanian lawyer representing a co-defendant of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in one of the many cases initiated by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, demanded that...

Macedonia 14.11.19 | 13:14

Kiracovski wants to see the statute of limitations dropped for crimes perpetrated by Government officials

SDSM member of Parliament Aleksandar Kiracovski submitted a proposal that crimes perpetrated by Government officials are not subject to a statute of limitations. Kiracovski himself was recently questioned by state prosecutors over allegations that he is involved in the major racketeering scandal revolving...

News 09.11.19 | 16:43

One year since Nikola Gruevski was forced to flee Macedonia

Today marks a year since Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski was forced to flee the country for Hungary, where he obtained asylum from political persecution. In the year since, many of the things he warned about came true, while the tip of the spear in the persecution campaign against him broke...

Macedonia 11.10.19 | 19:40

Gruevski hopes that Bulgaria will stop obsessing over the Macedonian history

Former Macedonian Prime Minister and VMRO leader Nikola Gruevski wished that the neighboring countries, especially Bulgaria, will end their obsession with the Macedonian history so that the region can begin to live together and look toward the future. Gruevski wrote a message congratulating the Macedonian...

Macedonia 10.10.19 | 19:55

Verusevski’s latest testimony offers no answers to the many questions he raised

Spy chief Zoran Verusevski, who is seen as the main person behind both the 2000 and the 2015 wiretapping scandals, and their subsequent security and political crises, gave a convoluted testimony at the Skopje courthouse today. Verusevski did not address directly his earlier scandalos claim that the wiretaps...

Macedonia 07.10.19 | 15:30

Gruevski: Zaev offered Janeva an exit – to lead the Supreme Court – but she refused, threatened to drag him down with her

Nikola Gruevski reveals new details about the downfall of Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, claiming that she was pressured by Zaev to resign, but refused to do so. As the 2015 narrative continues to crumble, Gruevski comments on the latest Zaev, Verusevski, Doncev and Kezarovski revelations Sometime...

Macedonia 07.10.19 | 15:09

Gruevski: Laws that regulate appointments in the judiciary are completely ignored in favor of political appointments

Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who received asylum in Hungary to avoid politically driven persecution, details the abuses and violations in the judiciary over the past several years under the Zaev regime. According to Gruevski, in his term, there may have happened violations of the law regulating...

Macedonia 01.10.19 | 15:52

Did Zaev deliver empty boxes as evidence to Katica Janeva?

The World Macedonian Congress calls on state prosecutors to investigate whether the December 2015 hand-over ceremony of the cache of wiretaps from the SDSM party to the Special Prosecutor’s Office was a sham. The SDSM party was using the wiretaps for months to spark a colored revolution and once...

Macedonia 01.10.19 | 12:27

As the 2015 narrative continues to crumble, Gruevski comments on the latest Zaev, Verusevski, Doncev and Kezarovski revelations

Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski spoke out on several latest scandals that continue to challenge the official narrative built up for the purposes of the 2015 colored revolution. In a lengthy Facebook post, Gruevski speaks about the latest doubts raised over the veracity of the 2015 cache of wiretaps...

Macedonia 04.09.19 | 13:52

Gruevski warns about long term consequences for Macedonia’s rule of law, sovereignty and financial stability

Former Prime Minister and VMRO leader Nikola Gruevski published his first comments on the major corruption scandal that has brought down the Special Prosecutors’ Office and has implicated top officials of the SDSM party and the Zaev Government in high level corruption. Gruevski, who now lives in...

Macedonia 05.08.19 | 13:52

Nikola Gruevski blasts the Zaev Government for giving up on the historic heritage of ancient Macedonia

Former Prime Minister and VMRO leader Nikola Gruevski dismissed Zoran Zaev’s criticism of his evocation of Macedonia’s ancient past in the building of the contemporary narrative. Gruevski quotes an article by professor Jovan Donev, which insists that the viewing of modern day Macedonians...

Macedonia 30.07.19 | 19:10

Gruevski: What more can I say?

Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who was deposed largely owing to the partisan prosecution by Katica Janeva, made his first public comment following the racketeering and abuse of office scandal that pushed Janeva to offer her resignation. Seemingly at a loss for words to capture the chaotic situation...

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