Category: Macedonia
Macedonia 20.11.24 | 14:38

DUI officials are escalating their rhetoric because of the criminal investigations into their actions, Mickoski tells the press in Kosovo

In an interview with the Kosovo Radio Television, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that the opposition DUI party is ramping up nationalist rhetoric because of the credible investigations into their crimes. They are buying shopping malls, have cars worth millions, they have more money than they...
Macedonia 20.11.24 | 14:29

Palevski’s friends testified about his behavior in the days after Vanja’s murder

In the trial in the gruesome killing of 14 year old Vanja Gjorcevska, the court today heard from several friends of main suspect Ljupco Palevski – Palco. One of them, Stefan Dimkovski, who was active in Palevski’s fringe political party, said that he drove Palevski from Belgrade, where he...
Macedonia 20.11.24 | 14:19

Mickoski congratulates Sekerinska on her appointment as NATO Deputy Secretary General

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski today congratulated former SDSM party leader Radmila Sekerinska on her appointment as Deputy Secretary General of NATO, adding that it had the support of his Government. It’s no secret that in the past we’ve had many conceptual differences when it came to...
Macedonia 20.11.24 | 12:22

Mickoski: We are ready to call for early general elections if we lose the local elections in spring

Responding to calls from the opposition DUI party for early general elections, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that he’s prepared to do so if VMRO-DPMNE loses the local elections scheduled in spring. It’s not a problem to go to the polls. The results will be the same, maybe even worse...
Macedonia 19.11.24 | 21:00

Kurti tells Ahmeti that it is healthy to spend some time in opposition

Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti called on DUI leader Ali Ahmeti to reconcile with his new role in the opposition in Macedonia, telling him that “it is healthy to rotate the parties”. I was in opposition for 20 years. Now I’m in the Government for four years, and I think we need to...
Macedonia 19.11.24 | 19:55

Radmila Sekerinska named NATO Deputy Secretary General

Former SDSM party leader Radmila Sekerinska was named Deputy Secretary General of NATO. The announcement was made by Secretary General Mark Rutte today. Sekerinska held EU integration associated positions in the Macedonian Government under SDSM, and was most recently Defense Minister and deputy leader...
Macedonia 19.11.24 | 00:09

Macedonia and Kosovo discuss mutual cooperation, as well as remaining open issues

The governments of Macedonia and Kosovo held a joint session in Pristina today, to discuss a number of issues of mutual interest, as well as outstanding problems between the countries. Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that the discussions were productive and sincere and covered trade, infrastructure...
Macedonia 18.11.24 | 23:59

Council of prosecutors suspends Mustafa Hajrulahi

The Council of state prosecutors today decided to uphold the decision to suspend high state prosecutor Mustafa Hajrulahi. Hajrulahi appealed the decision after he was suspended due to several allegations of mobbing. In several public statements, Hajrulahi said that the real reason he is being suspended...
Macedonia 18.11.24 | 23:07

President Siljanovska: constitutional changes with delayed effect is a Solomonic solution for the dispute with Bulgaria

In an interview with the Macedonian Television, President Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova said that she is hopeful for a deal with Bulgaria by the end of the year, that will allow Macedonia to open its EU accession talks. The President added that the best solution remains that Macedonia amends the...
Macedonia 18.11.24 | 22:58

Nikoloski: serious issues with the planned highway to Kosovo

Following the meeting of the Macedonian and Kosovan governments, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski said that there are major issues with the planned highway between Skopje and the border with Kosovo. The first problem is that the planned highway on the Macedonian side does not link up with the...
Macedonia 18.11.24 | 00:47

Meeting of the governments of Macedonia and Kosovo in Pristina

The governments of Macedonia and Kosovo will hold a joint session on Monday in Pristina, that will include a bilateral meeting between prime ministers Hristijan Mickoski and Albin Kurti. Officials from the two countries will cover issues of mutual cooperation in various areas. Ahead of the meeting, the...
Macedonia 16.11.24 | 22:49

Mickoski on the dispute with Bulgaria: It takes two to tango

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that Macedonia still needs to have an interlocutor in Bulgaria, in order to move forward with resolving the dispute that blocks Macedonia’s EU accession. I don’t know if there’s some progress. There is no change in our positions because they are...
Macedonia 16.11.24 | 22:37

Diabetes patients ask to be allowed to purchase their own drugs

On the World Diabetes Day, patients who suffer from this illness urged the Healthcare Ministry to allow them to purchase more modern drugs on their own, instead of having it distributed through the public system. Dimce Velev, head of the association of organizations of patients with diabetes, said that...
Macedonia 16.11.24 | 00:11

Mickoski expects Ahmeti’s rhetoric to get even more radical as the criminal investigations get closer to the DUI leadership

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that he expects rhetoric from the DUI party to get even more radical and ethnically divisive. Mickoski was asked today by the press about comments from DUI that the firing of several DUI officials suspected of corruption amounts to “ethnic cleansing”. The...
Macedonia 16.11.24 | 00:05

Nikoloski: Skopje’s central post office building was about to be turned into a cabaret

The previous management of the Macedonian Post Office was planning to rent out its central office in the Skopje Railway Station to be used as a cabaret style night club, said Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski. The review of the Post Office showed that the management was hiking its own salaries,...
Macedonia 14.11.24 | 22:35

15 Interior Ministry officials will face charges over the gun permit chaos

Following a review, the Interior Ministry is planning to file charges against 15 former top officials, over the complete mishandling of the gun permit issuing bureau. Interior Minister Pance Toskovski said that there is a backlog of 5,000 gun permit requests that are left unresolved, and that in some...
Macedonia 14.11.24 | 22:32

Mickoski: We are in talks for a gas plant investment worth a billion EUR that will help fight air pollution

As air pollution begins to rise in Macedonia, as it does every heating season, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that the focus of his efforts to combat this problem will be to replace the use of wood (and coal and even old car tires) as fuel for home heating. The Prime Minister said that there...
Macedonia 14.11.24 | 22:25

Skopje mobster survives third attempt on his life

Skopje mobster Rade Trajkovski – Stekli survived yet another assassination attempt. After several shooting attacks carried out in the East Gate Mall, today somebody threw a bomb at him while he was in his house. Trajkovski came out slightly injured. He’s believed to be a player in the narco...
Macedonia 14.11.24 | 00:28

Misajlovski: Macedonia gained a lot from the NATO membership

Macedonia gained collective security that also supports our economy from its membership in NATO, said Defense Minister Vlado Misajlovski during a round table organized by the VMRO-DPMNE party. The fact that we are a NATO member state increases our security and opens now areas in the economy, making businesses...
Macedonia 14.11.24 | 00:25

State leaders and historians marked the importance of ASNOM for the creation of the Macedonian state

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski spoke at the opening of the international conference on ASNOM – the declaration of the Macedonian state during World War Two. The conference, on ASNOM’s 80th anniversary, took place at the National Archives, and included a number of distinguished historians...
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