Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 23:24

Most of European leaders hugged me after we didn’t get a date

TV Klan Macedonia journalist Furkan Saliu has posted a hilarious video on Facebook. He asked Prime Minister Zoran Zaev if any of the European leaders in Brussels hugged him, after it was already clear that we would not get a date. My salute with most of the world and European leaders is hugging, says...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 23:01

“Racket” has damaged the idea of rule of law like nothing before

Criminal law professor Gordan Kalajdziev said Tuesday on TV Alfa that reforms should be carried out by professionals, not by the executive. We do not know where the SPO solution came from, no one said who was the author, and we got it from a working group that worked on the strategy. The whole thing...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 21:58

Byrnes: NATO protocol ratification result of hard work and commitment

United States Ambassador Kate Byrnes has welcomed the Senate’s ratification of Macedonia’s NATO Accession Protocol, saying it is a result of hard work and commitment to investing in the future. So pleased to see the overwhelming support in our Senate for U.S. ratification of North Macedonia’s...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 21:13

Mickoski to mark Day of Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle in Prilep

An event marking the Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle will take place Wednesday at 13 h at the Marko Cepenkov Cultural Center in Prilep. VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski will address the event. According to the party, the “Talks for Renewal of Macedonia” campaign resumes...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 20:50

Mickoski: Zaev’s agreements did not solve our problem, they brought us new ones

The agreement with Greece did not solve our integration problem and that is the biggest problem that such agreements did not solve our problems, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said in an interview with “Sloboden pecat”. VMRO-DPMNE did not participate in the agreement, because then...
Economy 22.10.19 | 19:56

Mickoski proposes that economic crime should not become outdated

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE, in an interview with Sloboden pecat said that society must be reset if we want our country to prosper and adds that we need to learn from successful examples and adapt them to our specifications. Let’s agree economic crime not to become outdated. If there is economic crime,...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 19:23

US Senate ratifies Macedonia’s NATO Accession Protocol

The US Senate ratified the Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of the Republic of Macedonia with 84 votes in favour and 2 against it. The United States is the 25th NATO member state to ratify the country’s NATO accession protocol.  
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 17:46

Janeva and Boki 13 remain in detention

The Skopje Criminal Court dismissed as unfounded the requests to lift the detention of former Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva and Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, suspected in the Racket case. The parties have the right to appeal against these decisions to the Court of Appeal – Skopje...
Economy 22.10.19 | 17:28

Monthly net wage in August 2019 was 25,127 denars

According to the data of the State Statistical Office, the index of the average monthly net wage paid per employee in August 2019, compared to August 2018, was 3.8. This increase is caused by the increase of the average monthly net wage paid per employee in the sectors: Human health and social work activities...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 17:10

Mickoski: Zaev himself said that there was a pro-government media, which was run by people who extorted money

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said in a statement that the pro-government then still alive 1TV, which was somehow linked to the crime suspect Bojan Jovanovski, he himself was saying that, I am not saying it. And now we see him with a Louis Vuitton suitcase in his hands, and he and his partner have been extorting...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 16:31

Mickoski: Zaev talks about European values but pushes laws that promote his family’s marijuana business

You can’t tell Europe that you are working for European values, and at the same time sneak a drug law that advances your own family business, said VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski, after the Parliament adopted a law that is expected to directly benefit the marijuana plantations of Prime Minister...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 16:17

Kosovo Minister says the two Islamist killers will be extradited to Macedonia after years of delay

Kosovo’s Interior Minister Ekrem Mustafa promised that the two killers sentenced for the 2012 Good Friday massacre will eventually be extradited to Macedonia, but only after the required procedures in the Justice Ministry in Kosovo are completed. Kosovo has harbored the two killers, Alil Demiri...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 15:08

Zaev’s favorite judge sentences former official to nine years in prison again

Judge Dobrila Kacarska, seen as one of the most loyal pro-Government judges in the country, again issued a sentence of nine years in prison against former Interior Ministry official Gjoko Popovski. Popovski was sentenced in one of the cases initiated by the now disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office,...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 14:58

Vucic asks what guarantees would Serbia get if it gives up Kosovo: like those given to Macedonia?

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic asked whether the guarantees the EU would give Serbia if it agrees to a deal with Kosovo would be the same as those given to Macedonia. We can’t have one side win it all. They would gain our territory, our people and our recognition. What would we get? A possible...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 14:31

Mickoski: Zaev refused elections in January; VMRO-DPMNE has a plan for the EU integration of Macedonia

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said that the opposition was prepared to go to the polls as early as January, but that it was rejected during the meeting in the residence of President Pendarovski on Sunday. Mickoski reaction comes after Zaev insisted that they wanted to go to the polls in December,...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 14:08

Greek diplomat: Zaev kept threatening to resign in Brussels, Greece thinks it’s unwise to decouple him from Albania

Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said that Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev kept threatening to resign at the European Council, as a means to pressure the countries into allowing the opening of accession talks./ It’s true that the Skopian side was under a lot of pressure....
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 14:00

Two hundred first graders are not attending school because they are not vaccinated

The Education Ministry informs that some 200 first grade pupils are not attending school at the moment, because their parents skipped the mandatory vaccines. Minister Arbr Ademi said that he is looking into options about these children. Parents protested last week to demand that their children are allowed...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 12:23

Piles of trash collected from the river Vardar – then thrown deeper into the river

As the city of Skopje is now led by politicians who were bitterly opposed to its major redevelopment plan named Skopje 2014, it was expected that much of the new plazas and official buildings will go in disrepair and will be poorly maintained. One of the neglected new features of the city are the three...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 12:14

Austrian paper proposes a conditional, temporary, limited EU membership for Macedonia and Albania

Austrian Der Standard proposes that the European Union introduces a temporary, conditional membership for Macedonia and Albania, which would last for a decade or more, and could be revoked. This, the leftist leaning paper writes, could encourage France to drop its veto against the two countries. The...
Macedonia 22.10.19 | 11:46

US Senate moves toward ratifying Macedonia’s NATO accession

The US Senate voted on Monday evening to end the debate on the proposal to ratify Macedonia’s accession to NATO. The vote was 82 to 2, and it allows a final vote on Tuesday. It is widely expected that the Senate will ratify the accession protocol. It was also expected that the US will be the last...
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