Tag: carovska
Macedonia 02.10.20 | 16:53

Debar will defy Education Minister Carovska and open its high school

Teachers and parents from Debar announced that they will defy Education Minister Mila Carovska and will open the city high school for in-person teaching in Monday. The move comes as schools across the country are struggling to handle the hastily prepared online education platform. High schools and most...

Macedonia 31.08.20 | 21:23

Minister Carovska offers different education options after protest by high school students

High school students took to the streets today to demand a combined model of online and in-person learning, instead of the current plans for exclusively online education. According to the Government’s plan, only children in the first three grades of elementary school would attend in-person education,...

Macedonia 23.07.20 | 17:27

Mila Carovska denies allegation that she inspired Boki 13’s racketeering enterprise

Deputy Prime Minister Mila Carovska announced she will sue showman Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 for slander, after he mentioned that he met with her as he was setting up a bogus charity for which he is now on trial. Carovska was Labour and Welfare Minister at the time when Boki 13 was incorporating...

Macedonia 07.07.20 | 23:12

Mid tirade against Gruevski, Mila Carovska was reminded that the candidate ahead of her on the SDSM list spent eight years as Gruevski’s adviser

SDSM official Mila Carovska painted herself in a corner during a debate with Timco Mucunski from VMRO-DPMNE, and was forced to make an embarrassing acknowledgement about Foreign Affairs Minister Nikola Dimitrov. Dimitrov is first and Carovska second on the SDSM list in the 1st electoral district. But...

Macedonia 23.05.20 | 20:05

SDSM campaigns in the midst of the epidemic, distributes packages with masks stamped with the party logo

Officials from the ruling SDSM party began distributing face masks in packages stamped with their party logo “We can”. Party official Mila Carovska herself posted a photo of an event she held in Skopje’s Karpos district. Despite recommendations to keep distance and reduce unnecessary...

Economy 18.05.20 | 14:23

SDSM voucher plan is thinly disguised pre-election vote buying

The latest set of economic measures from the Government, which it plans to adopt by decree, is seen in the public as an open attempt to bribe voters ahead of the elections that should take place by the end of the year. The measures would provide 355 million EUR in funds that would be distributed directly...

Macedonia 29.04.20 | 22:48

Nikoloski: We are losing 10.000 jobs each day because Carovska and Angelovska are mismanaging the crisis

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski called out Deputy Prime Minister Mila Carovska, whose portfolio covers the economy, and Finance Minister Nina Angelovska, of badly mismanaging the economic response to the coronavirus epidemic. “We are losing 10.000 jobs each”, Nikoloski warned....

Macedonia 17.02.20 | 12:04

Rasela Mizrahi was targeted for investigating the work of her predecessor Mila Carovska

The ruling coalition removed Labour and Welfare Minister Rasela Mizrahi from her post citing her refusal to use the imposed name “North Macedonia”. The claim rang hollow as many officials from the ruling SDSM party, which pushes the name change on the country, themselves stopped using the...

Economy 01.02.20 | 20:08

Mizrahi: Carovska is promoting a fake increase in retirement incomes

Labour and Welfare Minister Rasela Mizrahi said that the pension hike promoted by her predecessor Mila Carovska from SDSM was a bad touch-up job, whose goal is to cover up the fact that SDSM undercut the promised increase in retirement incomes. Carovska is trying to create a false image about the pensions....

Macedonia 22.01.20 | 09:51

SDSM tries to obstruct Mizrahi in managing the Labour and Welfare Ministry

The Spasovski Government yesterday pushed against the interim Labour and Welfare Minister Rasela Mizrahi, overturning her decisions to replace the managers of six welfare centers. Under the 100 days rule, which provides that opposition nominated candidates like Mizrahi will manage some of the departments...

Economy 03.01.20 | 15:08

Carovska orders a large public procurement push on her last day in office

Outgoing Labour and Welfare Minister Mila Carovska had dozens of procurement contracts issued on her final day in office. Carovska is being named Deputy Prime Minister in the caretaker Government, while a VMRO-DPMNE nominated candidate Rasela Mizrahi takes over from Carovska, in a move meant to reduce...

Macedonia 03.01.20 | 12:11

Unlike Carovska, Spasovski uses his video message to assure Zaev he is not after his job

Following an embarrassing moment when the PR head of the SDSM party promoted the wrong candidate for interim Prime Minister, the party did a new promo, this time getting it right. A week ago Kosta Petrov, the recently appointed SDSM party Vice President and self-styled PR guru, published a video with...

Macedonia 16.12.19 | 15:55

Zaev says either Carovska or Spasovski will take over as interim Prime Minister once he resigns in early January

Outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev named Mila Carovska and Oliver Spasovski as the candidates for Interim Prime Minister after he resigns on January 3rd. Zaev also said that there is no need to postpone the elections set for April 12th, even as he and a number of other top SDSM party officials raised...

Macedonia 11.11.19 | 14:16

Minister Carovska seeks to clarify her shocking statement that a family can live on 280 euros per month

Labour and Welfare Minister Mila Carovska sought to clarify her statement yesterday, where she said that, according to a set of indicators, a family of four can live on 280 EUR (17.000 denars) a month. Carovska made the shocking statement as she was promoting the latest minimum wage hike to 14.500 denars,...

Economy 10.11.19 | 21:49

Welfare Minister Carovska cites study claiming that a family of four can survive the month on just 280 EUR

Labour and Welfare Minister Mila Carovska caused outrage in the public with a claim that, according to a set of indicators, a family of four can live in Macedonia on an income of 17.000 denars a month (280 EUR). Carovska was defending the Government’s plan to hike the minimum wage again, to 14.500...

Economy 20.06.19 | 15:06

Minister Carovska claims that she stabilized the retirement system

Labour and Welfare Minister Mila Carovska made a claim today that the state run retirement fund PIOM is stabilized after the tax increases the Parliament introduced, and that for the first time in a long while, retirement payments are being made without borrowing. The measures we undertook to stabilize...

Macedonia 21.05.19 | 17:25

VMRO-DPMNE warns a new contract worth nearly a million EUR is being prepared in favor of Minister Carovska’s partner

VMRO-DPMNE called on Labour and Welfare Minister Mila Carovska to explain the latest public contract which was landed by the company of her long time partner Goran Georgievski, and accused her of preparing to rig a new, much larger contract, in his favor. Since SDSM took over the Government, Georgievski...

Macedonia 20.05.19 | 18:44

Minister Carovska’s partner wins another public contract

Labor and Welfare Minister Mila Carovska is in the news over receiving public procurement contracts again. Her unwed husband Goran Georgievski won a bid worth a million denars (16.000 EUR) from the city of Skopje, led by the same SDSM party. As in the previous episodes of the scandal, Georgievski’s...

Economy 15.03.19 | 14:31

Zaev denies that Minister Carovska is on the way out after her latest fight with DUI

Zoran Zaev denied reports that his Labour and Welfare Minister Mila Carevska is about to resign due to her conflict with his key Albanian coalition partner DUI. Kacarska revealed abuse in the public PIOM retirement fund, ran by DUI officials, and no sooner was that issue covered up between the coalition...

Economy 29.01.19 | 18:46

Charges of abuse in the PIOM retirement fund cause rift in the SDSM – DUI coalition

An investigation in the missing retirement payments of 12.000 public and private employees, which Labour and Welfare Minister Mila Carovski from the SDSM party announced this week, caused a rift with SDSM’s coalition partner DUI, whose officials manage the PIOM state owned retirement fund. Deputy...