Thursday, 13 August 2020
Macedonia 13.08.20 | 13:14

While receiving the mandate, Zaev acknowledged he doesn’t have the votes to form a Government

SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev confirmed that he doesn’t have the votes necessary to from a Government. Today he was given the mandate by President Stevo Pendarovski, during a brief ceremony in Pendarovski’s office, where the President barely gave a few courtesy remarks. Zaev then said that...
Macedonia 13.08.20 | 12:48

Brothers from Bitola charged with producing and hoarding child pornography

Two brothers from Bitola were arrested for enticing a minor to film pornographic material, and for possession of a huge cache of child pornography. The brothers are aged 51 and 52. One of them is charged with luring a 13 year old girl to film pornographic materials in 2016. The man was residing in Australia...
Economy 13.08.20 | 12:16

Authorities try to assure the depositors of the failed Eurostandard Bank

An incident was reported yesterday evening in Kavadarci when a man attempted to retrieve the money he has deposited in the Eurostandard Bank, that went under. Police had to be sent to defuse the situation. The bank, owned by oligarch Trifun Kostovski, who made his money in metal trading in the murky...
World 13.08.20 | 11:23

V4: Rule of law has no uniform definition in Europe

On Monday Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gave an account on the fulfilment of his parliamentary mandate, received for the European Council summit. In his letter to the House Speaker, Mr Orban stressed that he had received a promise that Germany would make efforts to bring the Article 7 procedure...
Macedonia 13.08.20 | 11:21

Five corona positive passengers on the latest Skopje – Turku flight

Five passengers on the latest Skopje to Turku flight, that landed in Finland on Tuesday evening, tested positive to the coronavirus. This is the second such incident, after whole two dozen of passengers that took the same line last week were revealed to be positive. This prompted Finland to reintroduce...
Macedonia 13.08.20 | 10:58

Pendarovski set to give the mandate to Zoran Zaev, as doubts remain whether he has the votes

SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev is set to meet with President Stevo Pendarovski later today and receive the mandate to form a new Government. This will give Zaev 20 days to cobble together a majority of 61 votes in Parliament. It is believed that Zaev still doesn’t have a deal with the crucial DUI...
Macedonia 13.08.20 | 10:54

Xhaferi cancels the session of Parliament which would’ve revealed if Zaev has the necessary majority

Outgoing Speaker Talat Xhaferi cancelled the Parliament session he called in order to elect a new Speaker. Xhaferi planned the session for today, just as SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev is set to receive the mandate to form the next Government from President Stevo Pendarovski. Zaev apparently still doesn’t...
Macedonia 13.08.20 | 10:20

All alone: No party leader wants to come to Ahmeti’s party

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti is scheduled to hold a celebration of the signing of the 2001 Ohrid peace treaty, but the leaders of the other major Albanian parties refused to participate. Ahmeti planned to have the celebration where he would present himself as a heroic leader of the UCK/NLA terrorist organization...
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