Friday, 15 November 2019
Macedonia 15.11.19 | 11:53

Trump’s Balkan envoy Grenell welcomes the Mini Schengen initiative

US diplomatic envoy for the Kosovo dispute Richard Grenell, who is one of the few US ambassadors openly loyal to President Trump, endorsed the Mini Schengen initiative between Macedonia, Serbia and Albania. Grenell also called on the countries to admit Kosovo to their initiative. We welcome the Western...

Macedonia 15.11.19 | 11:39

City of Skopje chops down the beloved cherry trees along Maxim Gorki street

Skopje authorities ordered the chopping down of the dozen oriental cherry trees lining the Maxim Gorki street in downtown Skopje. The highly ornamental trees were beloved by the citizens, who would race to snap pictures near them during their short blossom season. The authorities say the trees were diseased,...

Macedonia 15.11.19 | 11:29

TV21: SDSM and DUI officials are feuding for control over the main border crossing with Kosovo

TV21 is reporting a growing confrontation between the SDSM and DUI parties over who gets to contrl the Blace border crossing with Kosovo. The television reports that rival Interior Ministry officials from the two coalition partners were assigning and re-assigning employees at the border crossing based...

Macedonia 15.11.19 | 11:22

Once an electoral sensation, Tito Petkovski’s NSDP party is now reduced to a few dozen delegates

The New Social Democratic Party (NSDP) led by Tito Petkovski, which is one of the main coalition partners for Zaev’s SDSM, struggled to fill half of a small meeting hall during its Central Committee meeting on Thursday. NSDP created a sensation in 2006 when it split from SDSM and won seven seats...

Macedonia 15.11.19 | 10:35

Disappointed Colored Revolution activists form a party, will compete in the early general elections

Lawyer Aleksandar Tortevski announced that his recently formed Tvoja (your) Party will compete in the April general elections. Tvoja was created as a Twitter initiative of a group of Colored Revolution and SDSM party supporters who grew publicly angry over the high levels of crime and corruption on the...

Macedonia 15.11.19 | 10:19

Blerim Reka considered for the position of Foreign Minister of Kosovo

Blerim Reka, who was the ethnic Albanian opposition candidate in the recent presidential elections in Macedonia, is one of the candidates to become the next Kosovan Foreign Minister. Reka, and the two parties who nominated him – BESA and the Alliance of Albanians – are closely affiliated...

Macedonia 15.11.19 | 10:06

Confidential documents about the Kumanovo attack and the Good Friday massacre found in Frosina Remenski’s home

Confidential documents related to the 2012 Good Friday islamist attack and the 2015 Albanian terrorist attack on Kumanovo were found in the home of detained Deputy Parliament Speaker Frosina Remenski, the Mkd.mk news site reports. The top SDSM party official, whose husband Jovce Remenski was promoted...

Balkans 15.11.19 | 09:53

V4: Oliver Varhelyi says that EU’s credibility depends on enlargement toward the Western Balkans

EU should start accession talks with Albania and Macedonia as soon as possible because its credibility depends on it, said Hungarian EU commissioner-designate Oliver Varhelyi, who is nominated to lead the enlargement portfolio, the V4 news agency reported. Speaking before the European Parliament, Varhelyi...