Monday, 10 May 2021
Macedonia 10.05.21 | 23:40

“EU leaders won’t sit on the same table with a person who invites criminals to his home”

VMRO-DPMNE official Vladimir Neloski attributed the announcements from the European Union that Albania could surpass Macedonia in its accession process with the major corruption scandals surrounding the Zaev regime. Zaev is facing a number of scandals, including the seizure of marijuana originating from...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 23:35

Macedonian soldier is being airlifted from Africa after developing a bad case of Covid-19

A Macedonian soldier who was stationed in a mission in Africa is being urgently returned to the country after developing a bad case of the coronavirus. Fokus reports that the soldier could not be treated at the base. Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce confirmed this to Fokus, but did not disclose where...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 23:30

It is not possible to decouple Albania from Macedonia, Zaev tells Euronews

Zoran Zaev came out strongly against decoupling Macedonia and Albania in the EU accession process – a move that could see Albania open its EU accession talks while Macedonia remains blocked by Bulgaria. Zaev flew to Brussels today, days after Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi, during a visit...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 22:03

Main high-school paper calls on Education Minister Carovska to give up her current plan to rewrite textbooks

The magazine of high-school students “High-school voice” called on Education Minister Mila Carovska to give up on the plan to cancel printed textbooks and replace them with digital books. The reaction is mainly given Carovska’s long standing plans to rewrite history books and other...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 21:50

VMRO representatives meet with villagers from Tetovo and Prilep

VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament began their announced series of meetings with citizens from smaller towns and villages across the country. Aleksandar Veljanovski was in the villages of Jegunovce, Preljubista and Podbregje, near Tetovo, where the citizens cited problems with unregulated dumping sites...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 19:33

Macedonia will not negotiate about its national identity, Zaev told Sassoli

During his visit to Brussels today, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev also met with the Speaker of the European Parliament, Italian socialist David Sassoli, to discuss the danger of having Albania open EU accession talks ahead of Macedonia. According to the Government press release, Zaev insisted that Macedonia...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 19:27

Janeva and Boki 13 had their lawyers present their case before the Appeals Court

The defendants in the major Racket trial, disgraced former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva and her former friend and associate Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, were before the the Appeals Court today to demand that it quashes their first instance sentences of seven and nine years in prison, respectively. Jovanovski’s...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 19:13

Mickoski: The people will not be held victims to the mafia

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski warned that the Zaev regime is going down, and that “he is trying to pull all of us with him”. Mickoski shared a video from his speech in Prilep, on May 9th, predicting the messy fall of the regime. Zaev is facing a growing number of corruption scandals...

News 10.05.21 | 18:58

Borrell promised Zaev that Albania will not advance ahead of Macedonia

The MIA news agency reports that European foreign policy chief Josep Borrell came out against decoupling Macedonia and Albania in the accession process. This quickly became a burning issue for the Zaev regime, which faces the prospect of having Albania advance in the EU accession process, while Macedonia...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 18:16

Macedonia has one of the worst vaccination rates in the Balkans

Macedonia is tied with Bosnia for the penultimate place in the Balkans in terms of vaccinations per 100 people. Macedonia has been able to vaccinate only 3.56 citizens per 100 people and Bosnia’s rate is 3.25. Only Kosovo does worse, with 1.14 vaccinations per 100 people. This was reported today...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 17:06

Pendarovski finally visits Delcev’s grave – to accompany a foreign head of state

After failing to visit the grave of Goce Delcev on May 4th – the anniversary of his death in 1903, President Stevo Pendarovski went to the hallowed site in Skopje’s church of St. Spas today, to accompany the visiting President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili. Prime Minister Zaev also didn’t...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 16:58

Gynecology Clinic insists it provided high level of care to a 33 year old woman amid claims she’s the victim of a badly botched surgery

The Gynecology Clinic released some additional information in the tragic death of a 33 year old woman. The woman, identified as N.K., was operated for a large uterine tumor in what family members on social media claim was a badly botched surgery during which her small intestine was ruptured. She was...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 16:41

Minister Filipce defends his decision to order 500,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce insistied that the efficacy rate of the Sinovac vaccine is 70 percent, not 50 percent as is often reported. Filipce tried to defend the decision to order 500,000 doses of this vaccine which many are worried will just lull the recipients into a false sense of security. Demand...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 16:00

16 die, 25 new Covid-19 cases

Out of 1,016 COVID-19 tests carried out in Macedonia in the past 24 hours, 25 new cases were registered, 408 patients recovered and 16 died, the Health Ministry said on Monday. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Macedonia has registered 154,051 confirmed coronavirus cases, while 138,370 people have...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 15:49

People who have received two doses of the vaccine will still wear face masks, concerts and weddings still banned

People who have received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine will still wear face masks outdoors as a precaution. In the coming period, the situation will be monitored and it will be decided whether the mask mandate will be lifted, Health Minister Venko Filipce said on Monday. According to him, it is too...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 15:05

Zaev – Von Der Leyen meeting: Identity issue non-negotiable, EC to be further engaged

The Macedonian language and Macedonian identity, which have been imposed as an issue by Bulgaria, should not be a topic of discussion and engagement in Brussels, and this is the only way for Macedonia to continue to talk on its European future, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev at a meeting with European...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 14:53

Negotiations now!

Negotiations now! Leave Zaev and those around him, they are not Macedonia. Macedonia is this people, honest, hardworking people. This is the people who have shown their European values long before you and their place is there to get the deserved justice, VMRO-DPMNE leader said. Today was supposed to...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 13:11

It is clear who gave the order Sedat Peker to get a Macedonian passport under the assumed identity of Xhadin Amedovski

After the statement of the Turkish drug lord that he personally knows Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and that he visited his home, Antonio Milososki says that it is clear who gave the order to the officials in the Ministry of Interior to issue him a Macedonian passport under the assumed identity of Xhadin...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 12:40

Zaev – Varhelyi in Brussels: Identity can’t be a reason for blocking EU integration

Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, accompanied by the Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani and the Head of Mission of Macedonia to the EU, Agneza Rusi-Popovska, met today in Brussels with EU Commissioner for EU Neighborhood...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 12:16

Mickoski: The answer to why clerks received symbolic sentences in “Mafia” affair follows in the video in which Peker reveals that he was at Zaev’s home

Sharing the video in which the Turkish mobster Sedat Peker, one of the people who obtained a Macedonian passport with a fake identity, reveals that not only he was a good friend of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, but also that he was at his home, the VMRO-DPMNE leader says that it is answer to all the ambiguities...

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