Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Macedonia 19.03.19 | 22:30

Latest victim of Zaev’s political persecution – Stevco Jakimovski – is ordered into house arrest

A Skopje court ordered that Stevco Jakimovski, former Mayor of Karpos and leader of the opposition GROM party, is sent to house arrest. Jakimovski was arrested this morning, along with seven other Karpos employees, over allegations of abuse of office regarding a real-estate procedure he approved. Jakimovski...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 22:23

Government orders that ELEM is renamed into “Power Plants of North Macedonia” – ESM

The Government ordered another major company in Macedonia to change its name. ELEM, an abbreviation of “Elektrani na Makedonija” – Macedonian power plants – will be known as ESM – short for power plants of North Macedonia. Nowdays the company is best known for hiring an...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 22:09

Zaev’s most obedient judge explains why even she couldn’t sentence Igor Durlovski for terrorism

Judge Dobrila Kacarska, who is at the forefront of Zoran Zaev’s political persecution of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, expressed her deep remorse that she had to free opera singer Igor Durlovski from the “terrorism” charges over the April 2017 incident in the Parliament. Kacarska...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 22:02

Pendarovski agreed to debate Siljanovska, but not before April

SDSM presidential candidate Stevo Pendarovski accepted the challenge to debate VMRO-DPMNE candidate Gordana Siljanovska, but insisted that this happens only after April 1st. Siljanovska has been prodding Pendarovski to stop hiding from a debate and face the first female presidential candidate of a major...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 21:42

Zaev promises Stoltenberg that Macedonia will increase defense spending to 2 percent of GDP

Zoran Zaev told NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that Macedonia is prepared to increase its defense spending to 2 percent of GDP in just five years. Macedonia currently spends just 135 million EUR per year on defense, and to reach the required 2 percent of GDP, this would have to increase to 200...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 21:30

Pope Francis will hold a homily at the Philip of Macedon stadium

During his visit to Macedonia, Pope Francis will hold a sermon at the Philip of Macedon sports stadium in Skopje. The visit, the first for a Pope to independent Macedonia, is expected on May 7th. Organizers hope that his visit will draw between 40 and 50 thousand worshipers, said Arian Aslani, director...

World 19.03.19 | 21:17

EPP will discuss expelling Orban’s Fidesz party tomorrow

The European People’s Party, EU’s ruling right of center coalition, will meet tomorrow to discuss whether it should expel the Hungarian ruling Fidesz party from its ranks. Viktor Orban’s party has moved further to the right as EPP becomes more centrist and this has caused friction with...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 19:07

Zaev asks EU officials to approve opening accession talks with “his country”

Zoran Zaev was in Brussels today to urge European Union officials to be true to their promises and allow Macedonia to open EU accession talks during the Council meeting expected this summer. Zaev’s EU supporters Federica Mogherini and Johannes Hahn praised Zaev for pushing through the Prespa treaty...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 19:01

Tsipras will visit Macedonia on April 2nd

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit Macedonia on April 2nd. It would be the first visit by a Greek Prime Minister, and Tsipras promised he will undertake it as a sign of good will after the Prespa treaty which renames Macedonia and allows Greece to rewrite its history. It is expected that...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 18:51

Mickoski published extensive list of Zaev’s violations of the rule of law

In a video address, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski named a series of violations of the rule of law and other injustices and broken promises on the part of the Zoran Zaev Government. According to Mickoski, the voters must resist this at the coming presidential elections. It is an injustice when...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 17:41

Seven year old child hit by a car near Lipkovo, driver fled

A seven year old child was injured after being hit by a car in the village of Gosince, near Lipkovo. The driver who hit the child fled the scene and police is looking for him. Doctors at the Mother Teresa clinic in Skopje are treating the injured child.

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 17:32

Seven Macedonian citizens who joined ISIS plead guilty at the start of their trial

Seven Macedonian citizens, who were detained while fighting in ISIS, pleaded guilty at the trial that began today in Skopje. Little is known about the group, which was handed over to Macedonia last August, after being captured in the Middle East by US led coalition forces. They are charged under the...

World 19.03.19 | 15:51

Hundreds dead or missing in devastation of Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai, the tropical storm ravaging southern Africa, is possibly the worst weather-related disaster to hit the southern hemisphere, with 1.7 million people affected in Mozambique and 920,000 in Malawi, UN officials have said, the Guardian reported. Storm surge floods up to 6 metres deep had caused...

World 19.03.19 | 15:28

New Zealand Prime Minister vows never to mention mosque gunman’s name

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, addressing the country’s parliament on Tuesday, vowed to never speak the name of the alleged gunman who fatally shot more than 50 people and injured dozens more at two Mosques last week, Fox News reported. “He sought many things from his act of terror,...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 15:06

Jakimovski in court: We will win!

The former mayor of Karposh and the leader of the GROM party, Stevco Jakimovski, with two fingers raised up as a sign of victory, left the old building of the Basic Court Skopje 1 to be transferred to the new facility of the Criminal Court. While police officers moved him from one building to another...

Balkans 19.03.19 | 14:44

China denies Greek company request over use of ‘Macedonian’

China denied on February 23 a request by a Greek company over the use of term ‘Macedonian’, elaborating that this requires an approval from the neighboring country, Maria Spyraki, spokesperson of Greek opposition party New Democracy, said at the briefing of political commentators on Monday. Without...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 13:53

Siljanovska on Jakimovski’s arrest: There will be no politicians left in opposition

Professor and VMRO-DPMNE’s presidential candidate, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, commented Tuesday on the arrest of the former mayor of the Municipality of Karposh, Stevco Jakimovski. As you began with the arrests, there will be no politicians left in opposition … so you will ask Tsipras to...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 13:08

Siljanovska-Davkova: Stevo, I apologize that Gruevski escaped

Under the hashtag #StevoIzvini (Stevo I apologize), Professor Gordana Siljanovska Davkova responded to the challenge from her opponent in the upcoming presidential elections Stevo Pendarovski to apologize. Every day Siljanovska “apologizes” to Pendarovski for absurd things, as is his request...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 12:43

VMRO-DPMNE: Zaev and Pendarovski instead of justice promote staged processes, political revanchism and ordered verdicts

Zaev and Pendarovski instead of justice promote staged processes, political revanchism and ordered verdicts. In that way, they try to spread fear and divert attention from the crime in which they are stuck, VMRO-DPMNE said on Tuesday. SDSM has destroyed everything that means law and justice. Two years...

Macedonia 19.03.19 | 11:57

Prosecutor’s Office seeks detention for Jakimovski and two Karposh employees

After the criminal charges of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and on the order of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime, the former mayor of Karposh, Stevco Jakimovski and two of his associates, heads of the expropriation and urbanism sectors, were arrested Tuesday morning. Together...

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