Thursday, 12 December 2019
World 12.12.19 | 23:31

Boris Johnson on course to winning a large pro-Brexit majority

Exit polls published in Britain show that Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is on track to win a huge majority in the general elections. Projections place the Tories at over 360 votes in Parliament, well above the number required to maintain control over the Government and ensure that Britain...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 23:21

Government approves the suspicious helicopter transportation contract

The Government confirmed today that it signed the controversial contract with the Swedish SARHEMS company which is supposed to provide medevac services. A Government source told Alfa TV that the contract was signed following an instruction from Secretary General Dragi Raskovski, who was already pointed...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 22:58

Zaev says he will stick with his Albanian language law

Outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced that he will not respect the opinion of the Venice Commission, which found serious defects in the Law on the Languages. Zaev’s coalition with ethnic Albanian parties such as DUI relies on the law, which turns Macedonia into a fully bilingual country,...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 22:44

Dimitrov pleads with Bulgaria to show greatness in the language dispute

Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov pleaded with Bulgaria not to allow the deterioration of relations with Macedonia, as result of the move by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences to deny the uniqueness of the Macedonian language. In a Facebok comment Dimitrov lists a brief history of how the Macedonian language...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 22:17

Mickoski demands that Zaev assumes responsibility for the constant pressures against the Macedonian national identity

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski denounced the position of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences that the Macedonian language is not a separate, stand along language, and called on the outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev to assume responsibility for undermining Macedonia’s national red lines. Zaev...
World 12.12.19 | 21:57

Orban: We cannot allow poor countries to bear the costs of climate change

During negotiations on the fight against climate change, the battle – from a Central European and Hungarian standpoint – will be about “not allowing Brussels bureaucrats to have poor people and poor countries to pay for the costs of combating climate change,” said Hungarian Prime...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 20:05

Lider reveals all participants in the TE-TO false bankruptcy scandal

The Lider news site has published a list of Government officials involved in the bankruptcy of the TE-TO gas fired plant which inflicted damages of 200 million EUR, including a 24 million EUR debt write down by the Zaev Government. Lider: The Zaev Government wrote-off 20 million EUR in debt from a Russian...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 19:18

President Pendarovski appointed a totally unqualified SDSM party activist to the Judicial Council, VMRO says

VMRO-DPMNE accused President Stevo Pendarovski of appointing a completely unqualified partisan activist as member of the Judicial Council – a key institution tasked with appointing and dismissing judges. Vesna Dameva is appointed to the top council from the lowly position of judicial clerk in the...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 18:59

Osmani turns somber, says EU relations are too complex and outcomes are difficult to predict

Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani, who is tasked with advancing EU integration, struck a somber note today during a lecture in Struga. Osmani told the participants at the event that the “relations within the EU itself are complex” and outcomes are “not easy to predict”, but that...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 18:45

Mickoski meets French Assembly representatives: Under VMRO, Macedonia will conduct serious reforms and will curb against crime

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski had meetings with French officials in Paris, to discuss EU enlargement, the coming early general elections, Macedonia’s stalled reforms and the growing corruption issues. Mickoski said that, following the April 2020 elections, VMRO-DPMNE will form a government...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 17:14

The leaked conversation is heavily edited, Kamcev says, and is taken out of context by a person who wanted to curry favor with the leakers

Businessman Jordan Orce Kamcev confirmed that the conversations which are now being leaked on Youtube include him and a number of his friends. Kamcev said that the conversations are clearly chopped in order to convey a different, distorted message. He most strongly denied one element in the tapes, which...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 16:47

Zaev says he will respond after the Bulgarian Academy denounced the existence of the Macedonian language

Outgoing Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that his Government will react to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, which came out with a position that the Macedonian language does not exist as an independent language, and is merely a western Bulgarian dialect. We will respond because this issue...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 15:50

Institute of Macedonian Literature: BAS’ position denies the Macedonian national identity

The Institute of Macedonian Literature reacted strongly in a statement on the position of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) that the Macedonian language “does not exist”, that it is a “literary-regional norm of the Bulgarian language”. Such a statement denies the existence...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 15:09

Academician Fiti after BAS said there is no Macedonian language: We will not spoil relations with BAS, we will talk

The current president of MANU Taki Fiti said today that they will discuss with their colleagues from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) their view that the Charter on the Macedonian Language contains incorrect and unacceptable positions and states that “the official language in the Republic...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 14:47

Eight initiatives waiting, one accepted: Will the Constitutional Court be encouraged to debate the Law on Languages?

After the Venice Commission had negative remarks about the Law on Languages, the Constitutional Court began to wake up. The court accepted Tuesday the initiative of the Levica party to assess the constitutionality of the law, which has been the subject of inter-party sparring these days. The Constitutional...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 14:04

Outgoing PM Zaev acknowledges his relationship with Tosevski, who accuses him and his brother of racketeering

Outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has acknowledged his relationship with businessman Kiro Tosevski, who accused him and his brother Vice Zaev of pressures and manipulations in an interview with Alfa. But, as Zaev answered a journalist’s question about the case, he only wanted to help him, and...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 13:24

“Divo Naselje” defendant offered bombs related to “Monster” case to Fetai

Defendant in the “Divo Naselje” case Shefqet Hallaqi sent wiretapping materials to prosecutor Fatime Fetai in June this year in connection with the “Monster” case of the five-time murder near Smilkovsko Lake. Hallaqi called Fetai and told her that he had 140 GB of conversations...
Economy 12.12.19 | 12:49

November Consumer Price Index decreased by 0.1%

The Consumer Price Index in November 2019 decreased by 0.1% in comparison with the previous month and in comparison with November 2018. The Retail Price Index decreased by 0.6% compared to the previous month, while in comparison to November 2018 it decreased by 1.7%, State Statistical Office data show. A...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 12:18

Janusev: The fact that the suitcase did not reach Zaev, reveals that it was intended for him and doesn’t mean that the money did not reach him

The Government propaganda, the same one that convinced us through Sekerinska that the flag of Arizona was Macedonia’s, rushed to convey the information that “The suitcase with money did not reach Zaev”, so they were relieved that they could make a spin that Zaev was clean, no matter...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 11:14

Ahmeti: We used Venice Commission to reduce tensions and prejudices among Macedonians

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti said yesterday that the Law on the Use of Languages was sent to the Venice Commission for an opinion only to reduce the then current tensions that arose among Macedonians. According to the leader of the government’s coalition partner, the legal solution was then agreed and...
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