Monday, 17 May 2021
Balkans 17.05.21 | 23:05

Milanović: What is being done to Macedonia is trespassing, it shouldn’t be allowed

Macedonia is currently in an impossible position in the European integration process. It’s the conditions set for the country at a relatively advanced stage of negotiations with the EU, and it refers to content in some history textbooks. That’s trespassing into intimate space, it’s something that...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 22:58

Macedonia ranks 6th in the world according to Covid-19 mortality rate

High doses of antibiotics, different hospital protocols, inexperience of staff in small towns – are among the reasons for the still high Covid-19 mortality rate in the country, according to some experts in a Sitel analysis. On the world map for monitoring the situation, Macedonia is on the high...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 21:22

Some people over the age of 40 complain that they haven’t received vaccination appointment yet

Although health officials say all people over the age of 40 who have shown interest in getting vaccinated have been given an appointment for the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, many citizens complain they did not receive an appointment even though they applied for vaccination online in April. Authorities...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 20:05

Commission for Infectious Diseases recommends that current restrictions remain in place

No further relaxation of restrictions. The epidemic subsides, but the anti-covid measures remain in place. The curfew from midnight to 4 am remains in place, and cafes and restaurants will work until 11.30 pm. The Ministry of Health told TV 24 that the same measures that were in force so far remain in...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 19:20

Zaev: The next parliamentary elections will be held in 2024 and there will be no early elections

The narrow majority keeps the government awake. I think it is time to work to the end, so that the next parliamentary elections would be held in 2024, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. The next parliamentary elections will be held in 2024 and there will be no early elections, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 18:17

SDSM rift swept under the rug: Removing Facebook videos is called censorship

The leaked audio tapes of the former vice-president of SDSM Radmila Sekerinska, Boris Stankovski from the Kumanovo Municipal Organization and Vladimir Mitrevski, a delegate from the Centar Municipal Organization, apparently made during the online 26th Congress of SDSM, have been removed from Facebook. It...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 17:52

Mickoski and Nikoloski meet British Ambassador to Macedonia Rachel Galloway

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, together with the party’s vice president Aleksandar Nikoloski, met Monday with the British Ambassador to Macedonia, Rachel Galloway. At the meeting we talked about the current developments after which I pointed out that Macedonia has become a country...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 17:29

Pendarovski: Historical issues have nothing to do with the EU integration process

In a Facebook post on Monday, President Stevo Pendarovski writes that he is taking part in the tenth Brdo-Brijuni Process meeting in Slovenia together with the presidents of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro and discuss the region’s response to the COVID-19...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 17:03

When Zaev supported Sekerinska to be Prime Minister

The collaboration between Zoran Zaev and Radmila Sekerinska is coming to an end. The two co-led the SDSM party since 2013, through the Colored Revolution, together they grabbed power in 2017 and imposed a name change and a list of humiliating concessions on Macedonian national identity issues, and are...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 16:42

19 people die, 27 new Covid-19 cases

Out of 1,314 COVID-19 tests carried out in Macedonia in the past 24 hours, 27 new cases were registered, 192 patients have recovered and 19 passed away, the Health Ministry said on Monday. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Macedonia has registered 154,725 confirmed coronavirus cases, while 146,043...

Macedonia Economy 17.05.21 | 15:11

Mickoski: The Zaev years are a period of major economic downturn for Macedonia

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski blamed Zoran Zaev for the economic backsliding and the exploding debt in Macedonia. Mickoski especially pointed to the steep increase in debt compared to GDP growth in the relatively short time Zaev has been in power. If we compare the years of the past VMRO-DPMNE...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 14:35

New leaks from the SDSM party congress show delegates stand up for disciplined party officials

More audio tapes from the online SDSM party congress were leaked today. In one of them, a delegate from Kumanovo, Boris Stankovski, protests the removal of Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski from the party’s Central Committee. Dimitrievski loudly criticized the handling of the coronavirus crisis...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 14:24

SDSM appointed mayors hid details about public procurement contracts

Several mayors from the SDSM party signed contracts worth 2.5 million EUR without publishing detailed overview of the contracts at the website of the Public Procurement Bureau. This includes Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov and the mayors of Karpos, Aerodrom and Centar – Stefan Bogoev, Zlatko Marin and...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 13:48

Zaev did not use the congress to add “North” to the name of his SDSM party

Zoran Zaev’s SDSM party finished its congress on Sunday without changing its name. After he imposed the name change on the Republic of Macedonia in 2019, Zaev said that eventually he will have the party renamed – SDSM stands for Social-Democratic Union of Macedonia, and Zaev’s Prespa...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 13:40

Pendarovski asks Slovenia and Croatia to help Macedonia open its EU accession talks

President Stevo Pendarovski asked the presidents of Slovenia and Croatia, Borut Pahor and Zoran Milanovic, for help in ensuring that Macedonia finally opens its EU accession talks. Macedonia is blocked by Bulgaria, which demands serious concessions on issues of national identity and national history,...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 12:12

Leaked audio apparently shows Sekerinska’s final warning to the SDSM party

An audio tape of Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska, apparently made during the online congress of the SDSM party on Sunday, was leaked. In it, Sekerinska is heard giving veiled criticism of her party and warning about “falling in the usual traps”. Sekerinska withdrew herself from running...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 12:02

Zaharieva warns that Bulgaria will closely monitor the census in Macedonia

Former Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva, who vetoed Macedonia from opening EU accession talks, said that the country must closely monitor the coming census in Macedonia. She insisted that after over 120,000 Macedonian citizens took a dual Bulgarian passport, this must be reflected in the...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 11:17

Mafia boss Radoje Zvicer was also using a Macedonian passport

Serbian press is reporting that mafia boss Radoje Zvicer, who is considered head of the powerful Montenegrin Kavachki clan, also had a fake Macedonian passport. Zvicer survived an assassination attempt in Odessa a year ago where at least one of the hitmen, coming from the rival Shkaljarski clan, also...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 11:02

VMRO calls on prosecutors to expand their investigation into the “mafia passports” scandal

VMRO-DPMNE called on state prosecutors to expand the investigation into the “mafia passports” scandal, including on the fact that Turkish mobster Sedat Peker was given police escort while he was in Macedonia in late 2020 and early 2021. The Interior Ministry was found to have issued 214 fake...

Macedonia 17.05.21 | 10:44

VMRO: The “new” SDSM party officials are already discredited

VMRO-DPMNE reacted to the appointment of new officials in the SDSM party by pointing out that they already have a track record of failure. Prime Minister Zaev led the party congress yesterday in which Radmila Sekerinska withdrew from the position of deputy leader, and was replaced by Sanja Lukarevska,...

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