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Economy 26.10.24 | 11:34

Finance Minister Dimitrieska sees 3.7 growth rates in the coming years

Finance Minister Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska says that growth projection for 2024 will remain at the reduced level of 2.1 percent, but that Macedonia will grow at a faster rate in 2025 and in the subsequent years, of up to 3.7 percent. This estimate is based on the efficiency of the work of our...

Economy 23.10.24 | 22:12

Minister Dimitrieska expects 3.5 percent growth in 2025

Finance Minister Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska, who is in DC for the annual IMF-World Bank meetings, expects 3.5 percent growth in 2025 and a deficit rate of 4 percent. We are supporting investments and not spending. We are implementing a major project for municipal infrastructure, as well as preparing...

Economy 04.05.24 | 13:38

Dimitrieska: SDSM devastated living standards

SDMS devastated living standards and there is not a family that is not affected by the price increases, said in an Alfa TV interview, VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska. It doesn’t matter if salaries are going up if their purchasing power is decreasing. It’s comical...

Economy 22.08.23 | 19:10

Dimitrieska: The 100 million EUR credit line for ELEM will not go toward investments, but for operating costs and imported electricity

VMRO-DPMNE official Gordana Dimitrieska Kocoska accused the Government of inflicting a serious wound on the budget, with the latest 100 million EUR credit line for the ELEM/ESM state owned power company. The money will mainly go toward import of electricity from abroad, as domestic production faltered...

Economy 02.03.23 | 23:43

Dimitrieska: VMRO-DPMNE proposed steps that would have prevented the bread shortages

VMRO-DPMNE proposed measures that would have avoided the bread shortages, said the party’s Vice President Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska in her Sitel TV interview, as Macedonia woke to a second day with almost no bread in the major stores. After the failed attempt to reduce food prices by...

Macedonia 09.05.22 | 12:19

Dimitrieska: Still time for the Government to avoid a blockade of Parliament

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska said that the party still expects to see Prime Minister Dimitar Kocovski come to his senses and that he will agree to a meeting of party leaders to discuss early general elections. Otherwise, VMRO will begin to block the work of the Parliament...

Macedonia Economy 05.07.21 | 22:50

“The rise in the average salary is due to the record loss of lower paying jobs”

The Zaev Government is bragging with the increase in the average salary, but it only happened because low paid workers were fired in large numbers because of the economic downturn, said VMRO-DPMNE official Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska. In a TV debate, she discussed the report frequently promoted...

Macedonia Economy 21.12.20 | 17:21

Dimitrieska on Zaev’s Plan 21: Recycling of old promises and self-interested focus on marijuana legalization

VMRO-DPMNE official Gordana Dimitrieska Kocoska responded to Zoran Zaev’s press conference today and the 2021 budget proposed by his SDSM party, by denouncing it for its lack of infrastructure investments, the recycling of old promises and the corrupt focus on legalizing marijuana. Zaev promised...

Macedonia Economy 16.10.20 | 19:22

Dimitrieska: Failed bond auction shows that the banks are losing trust in the Government

VMRO-DPMNE official and former Deputy Finance Minister Gordana Dimitrieska Kocoska asked the Government why is it silent on its recent failure to sell the entire planned bond issue. Dimitrieska said that only 12.5 million EUR of the total bond issue of 55 million were bought by domestic banks. Is this...

Economy 28.09.20 | 22:29

Dimitrieska: The 5.5 percent economic contraction proves that the stimulus measures are not effective

The economic decline projected to reach 5.5 percent over the year is proof enough that the economic measures are not effective, said VMRO-DPMNE official Gordana Dimitrieska Kocoska, during a TV24 interview. Dimitrieska discussed the fourth set of economic measures proposed by the Government. Again it...

Macedonia 27.08.20 | 13:46

Eurostandard Bank was approving bad credits to real-estate developers linked with Zaev’s SDSM party

The Government and state prosecutors refuse to act in the Eurostandard Bank scandal, where companies linked to the Government were taking out credits with little or no collateral, said Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska from VMRO-DPMNE. Our information is that such credits were being given for the past...

Economy 24.08.20 | 14:55

VMRO demands an investigation into the politically linked companies who received credits from the failing Eurostandard Bank

Prosecutors need to investigate whether companies from Strumica, linked to the SDSM party, took up credits worth over 55 million EUR from the Eurostandard Bank, said Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska from VMRO-DPMNE. With the collapse of the bank owned by oligarch Trifun Kostovski, 200 million EUR...

Economy 16.08.20 | 14:49

Dimitrieska: SDSM destroys another bank that could’ve been saved

The Eurostandard Bank could’ve been saved, but its collapse serves the interests of powerful banking groups, said Gordana Dimitrieska Kocoska from VMRO-DPMNE. According to Dimitrieska, the bank owned by oligarch Trifun Kostovski asked to be put under administration, but was refused by the NBRM...

Economy 14.08.20 | 14:10

VMRO accuses companies linked to SDSM of taking out loans in Eurostandard Bank before it collapsed

VMRO-DPMNE official Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska called the prosecutors to investigate which companies from Strumica, linked to the SDSM party, had non-performing loans with the collapsed Eurostandard Bank. The bank lost its licence on Wednesday, shocking the relatively stable banking sector in...

Economy 18.06.20 | 16:10

Dimitrieska says the Finance Ministry is deliberately withholding a World Bank loan and blaming it on her

Deputy Finance Minister Gordana Dimitrieska Kocoska dismissed criticism from the ruling SDSM party that she is withholding 90 million EUR in loans that can be used for coronavirus relief. SDSM and aligned news sites are running a campaign against Dimitrieska, trying to blame her for the worsening economic...

Economy 08.05.20 | 22:38

Only half of the companies that applied for stimulus got any funding

Deputy Finance Minister Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska warned that half of the companies who applied for the coronavirus stimulus package still haven’t received any funding. The measures that were put in place will cover some of the salaries of workers in companies who had a serious drop in...

Economy 27.04.20 | 21:08

Dimitrieska: The Government is overspending on public sector hiring in the midst of the crisis

Deputy Finance Minister Gordana Dimtirieska – Kocoska warned that budget revenue has dropped by 21 percent in the first quarter of the year and that the deficit is on trac tto be 43 percent greater than projected. Some could argue that it is logical to have a revenue drop at a time like this. But...

Economy 25.03.20 | 22:24

Dimitrieska: We are the only country that’s even considering to reduce spending

The Government was late in adopting measures that would help the economy as it faces a major drop due to the coronavirus epidemic, said interim Deputy Finance Minister Gordana Dimtirieska – Kocoska, who is appointed in the finance department by the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party. She also strongly...

Macedonia 17.03.20 | 21:50

Dimitrieska: The Government lags badly in responding to the economic blow of the epidemic

Interim Deputy Finance Minister Gordana Dimitrieska Kocoska said that dealing with the economic impact of the coronavirus epidemic is put on a backburner by the Government, which will have serious consequences in the future. The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, which nominated Dimitrieska, called for emergency...

Macedonia 07.02.20 | 14:26

Dimitrieska calls for an investigation in the TE-TO corruption scandal

Interim Deputy Finance Minister Gordana Dimitrieska Kocoska said that she is closely following the latest reports about massive corruption and fraud involving the TE-TO gas fired energy plant in Skopje, owned by Russian oligarch Leonid Lebedev. The company, that provides much of Skopje’s central...

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