Tag: interview
Macedonia 29.02.24 | 10:16

Toskovski: There must be accountability for those who created the chaos with the passports

In an exclusive Republika interview, interim Interior Minister Pance Toskovski described the extent of chaos and confusion we are facing after his predecessor Oliver Spasovski completely botched the process of issuing passports. As part of the imposed Prespa Treaty with Greece, the Kovacevski Government...

Macedonia 16.12.23 | 22:20

Ambassador Aggeler announces that additional names will be put on the US black list

In an interview with Kanal77, US Ambassador to Macedonia Angela Aggeler repeated her call for urgent measures to fight the “epidemic of corruption” in the country. Aggeler also discussed the tragic murder of 14 year old Vanja Gjorcevska, asking how was it possible that the culprits were allowed...

Macedonia 11.11.23 | 10:40

I will lead the VMRO list in the 1st district – Mickoski tells Republika

In an interview with Republika, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski discusse the coming dual elections and the prospects of removing the SDSM – DUI coalition from power, their continued failures which led to the worst ever EU progress report, the high level of corruption and the loss of trust...

Macedonia 02.07.23 | 13:54

Nikoloski: Nearly all politicians in the SDSM and DUI leadership are corrupt

In an interview with Republika. VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski discussed the recent meetings in Brussels by the party leadership, the political crisis over the attempts to amend the Constitution and the growing list of corruption scandals by top government officials. Nikoloski qualified...

Macedonia 26.03.23 | 10:14

Stoiljkovic: Vucic showed the Macedonian authorities how to negotiate and fight for one’s own country

Fortunately for Serbia and the Serbian people, and unfortunately for those concerned in Macedonia, the talks in Ohrid didn’t result in Serbia recognizing Kosovo, and the thesis that the negotiating framework with the French proposal could be changed, that is, it showed that it could, collapsed,...

Macedonia 25.03.23 | 21:48

Kocevski: Oliver Spasovski is like a Teflon pan – no affair sticks to him

The Minister of Internal Affairs, Oliver Spasovski, is the main scandal master in the Government. He is like a Teflon pan, everything happens in the Ministry of Interior, all the crimes, and he is never responsible. He has been a minister for six years, and chaos, incompetence and crime reign in the...

Macedonia 24.03.23 | 11:16

Stoiljkovic: Albanian parties will line up in front of VMRO-DPMNE’s door and demand to be part of the new government

The Albanian leaders with their statements about “capitals” and “communities of Albanian municipalities” will not do anything because someone bigger than them in regional frameworks does not allow destabilization of the region and this is only preparation for what follows, which...

Macedonia 12.03.23 | 10:27

Republika will not conduct an interview with Andrey Kovatchev

Bulgarian member of the European Parliament Andrey Kovatchev issued a correction to Republika, over his claims that Bulgaria saved the Jews during World War Two. In the correction, Kovatchev’s office points out that he “expressed deep sorrow about what happened with those deported from the...

World 02.03.23 | 19:16

Orban to Weltwoche: “Hungary’s leadership is strong enough to keep the country out of war”

In response to the question how Hungary endures the war in Ukraine, Hungary’s prime minister said that “we are the hardest hit by the EU sanctions against Russia,” which have driven up oil and gas prices, the paper quoted him as saying in its Thursday edition. Hungary has made huge progress in...

Macedonia 25.02.23 | 10:45

Investing in infrastructure and personnel in healthcare will be a priority of the new VMRO-DPMNE government

A patient died of sepsis, she got infected during a routine operation in the Prilep hospital. A few more patients are infected. Blagojce from Bitola died while waiting for the cystic fibrosis “trikafta” drug. We talk about Macedonian healthcare in the 21st century with Dr. Igor Nikolov, chair...

Macedonia 24.02.23 | 09:32

It is unacceptable to be on vacation while your house is burning, I expect resignations from the two HIF directors

May health serve us better given the situation our healthcare is in. Before we were able to make sure that Macedonian healthcare is on its deathbed, but it seems that this time it is in the terminal phase. What’s going on in the world of white coats? There is money in the Fund, but there are no...

Macedonia 23.02.23 | 12:05

Mexhiti: I will not vote for the new Government, both DUI and the state are better off without Grubi

The entry of Alliance into the Government a year before the elections is an unnecessary move and acrobatics, they have nothing to show or prove. This is a coalition for daily politics and to suppress the different voices in DUI, that is, our group, Izet Mexhiti, vice president of the party says in the...

Macedonia 01.02.23 | 14:06

Kristijan Golubović: Macedonian passport for criminals costs 25,000 euros

Kristijan Golubović is one of the last surviving tough guys from the 90s. He knows what it’s like to be free but also in prison, he knows many characters on the other side of the law and therefore he can say whether it is possible to escape from prison and why criminals get a Macedonian passport...

Macedonia 01.02.23 | 10:58

Prof. Zezov: Macedonians and Bulgarians should not jointly honor Goce Delcev

Regarding whether Goce Delcev should be celebrated jointly by the Macedonian and Bulgarian people, my answer is no! Why do I say no? My research through the archives, the extensive literature read, and unpublished and published sources, indicate that the revolutionary activity of Goce Delcev has no contact...

Macedonia 27.01.23 | 10:45

Mitrovski: With the 2018 amnesty law, all that was left was to write the name and surname for whom this law is intended

The draft law on amnesty contains five articles and concerns two groups of people. It provides that anyone who has been sentenced to ten years will be immediately released from prison, and those over ten years will have a fifty percent remission of their sentence. If we take into account that people...

Macedonia 21.01.23 | 11:57

Cvetkovski: Escape from a Macedonian prison costs six figures in euros

There have always been escapes from prisons and there always will be. The last case that happened may have led to a situation that lasts longer because security measures were not deliberately taken and the rules for escorting a person to a medical facility were not followed, explains Viktor Cvetkovski,...

Economy 14.01.23 | 11:39

Vitanov: Without competition, this is the worst government ever, the economy is led by DUI, when did they have an economic program?

Today’s politics in Macedonia is a collection of immorality and I wouldn’t even want to call it politics. Macedonian society has gone backward with this kind of policy. This is without a doubt the worst government ever, especially on the economic level. I am convinced that this government...

Macedonia 12.01.23 | 11:44

Jankuloska’s husband: My wife is discriminated against, she cannot use weekends and spend more time with her child

Little Petar misses his mother the most during the New Year holidays. The mother Gordana Jankuloska cannot be with her son even on weekends or holidays because of the discrimination she is exposed to, her husband Vlatko Ilievski complains in an interview with “Republika”. Jankuloska and...

Macedonia 24.12.22 | 10:36

Grceva: Kovacevski is an upgraded failed investment of Zaev

“Voice for Macedonia” consists of hard-working, honest people who love their country. We were brazenly robbed in the parliamentary elections by about 40,000 votes, which would have meant two to three MPs, which crippled us as a party and now re-enters the company of the so-called small parties...

Macedonia 08.12.22 | 18:26

Vanco Gjorgiev: The changes for the Ohrid Archbishopric refer to our textbooks, not the Bulgarian ones

The subject of analysis and consideration, in the case of exchanging recommendations, is the textbook for the seventh grade in the Republic of Macedonia, not in Bulgaria. So that, whatever they agree on, whatever recommendation they adopt for the methodological unit for the Ohrid Archbishopric, it would...

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