Tag: epp
Macedonia 13.02.20 | 13:37

EPP: All needs to be done to ensure free and fair elections are held on 12 April as agreed, to bring the country forward

The European People’s Party sent support to Macedonia via Twitter, emphasizing that all our country needs to do is to ensure free and fair elections on April 12, to bring country forward. EPP is the largest party in the European Parliament since 1999 and in the European Council since 2002. Angela...

Macedonia 04.02.20 | 13:39

Nikoloski: Macedonia is sinking in crime and corruption, and we will put an end to it

Aleksandar Nikoloski, VMRO-DPMNE Vice President is attending the European People’s Party Political Assembly. Within the European People’s Party Political Assembly in the past two days, we are informing about the crime and corruption that is happening in Macedonia. They have reached international...

Macedonia 03.02.20 | 21:22

Nikoloski: EPP supports VMRO, the elections will take place as planned

In an update from Brussels, VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski says that the European People’s Party stands behind VMRO and its call that the early general elections go ahead as planned on April 12. The election date was agreed by all major parties in Macedonia during a meeting in October,...

World 17.01.20 | 17:16

V4: The EPP situation will have to be resolved, Orban says

Many European People’s Party (EPP) members betrayed Hungary during the EP vote on Thursday. “We were an inch away from quitting” the EPP, Viktor Orban said in his regular Friday radio interview. He emphasized that if the EPP does not stick up for Hungary, “we have to start a new...

World 16.01.20 | 19:11

V4: Hungarian officials say Brussels adopts Communist style methods against countries that oppose open borders

On Thursday, the European Parliament (EP) voted to continue the rule of law probe launched against Hungary and Poland. Left-wing MEPs did not present any arguments based on facts in the debate on Wednesday and the rule-of-law issue is merely a “cover story” for the attack of pro-immigration...

Macedonia 03.12.19 | 21:38

Zaev’s corruption gives ammunition to the critics of enlargement, Mickoski tells Weber

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski met with a delegation of EPP members of the European Parliament led by Manfred Weber which is visiting Macedonia. During the meeting, Mickoski warned that the unchecked corruption and criminal activities of the Zaev Government will continue to undermine Macedonia’s...

World 22.11.19 | 20:47

Orban: Fidesz party may leave EPP

Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party may leave the European Union’s umbrella centre-right bloc after receiving mixed signals about its intentions following Fidesz’s suspension from the group, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. We keep our membership suspended. We are waiting for the EPP to come...

World 21.11.19 | 10:52

EPP elects Donald Tusk as its next leader

The EPP party elected former Polish Prime Minister and European Council President Donald Tusk to be the next party leaders. Tusk was elected to assume the place of Frenchman Joseph Daul at the Zagreb EPP summit. He was the only candidate and won 491 votes of EPP delegates, with 37 opposed. Tusk promised...

Macedonia 21.11.19 | 10:23

EPP calls for opening of EU accession talks and free and fair elections in Macedonia

The center right EPP party adopted a resolution that calls for the opening of EU accession talks with Macedonia and Albnaia. EPP also demands free and fair elections in Macedonia from the Zaev regime. Dismantlement of the enlargement policy might lead to increasingly unstable situation in the EU’s...

Macedonia 20.11.19 | 20:44

Mickoski at the EPP summit: Macedonia belongs in the EU

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski addressed the Zagreb congress of the European People’s Party (EPP) saying that the ruling SDSM party is abusing the levers of power to assault the opposition. Mickoski said that, following the April 2020 elections, a new VMRO-DPMNE led Government will set...

Macedonia 20.11.19 | 14:03

Future VMRO-DPMNE-led government will use all potentials and friendships to unblock European path

VMRO-DPMNE President, prof. Hristijan Mickoski Ph.D. together with VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski, EC member and Secretary for International Cooperation Vlatko Gjorcev and International Secretary Timco Mucunski and Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Hristina Runceva – Tasev is attending...

Macedonia 15.10.19 | 21:04

Mucunski meets EPP officials, promises that VMRO will root out corruption in Macedonia, receives their support for EU accession

Timco Mucunski, who is the VMRO-DPMNE International Secretary, says that VMRO-DPMNE was given full support among the fellow conservative, EPP party members, to advance Macedonia quickly toward the EU and to root out corruption following the coming general elections in 2020. Mucunski had meetings at the...

Macedonia 03.10.19 | 23:36

Mickoski at the KAS youth conference: We’ve never had such a transparently corrupt Government

Speaking at a regional youth conference put together by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Wilfried Martens center, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski painted a dire picture of the situation in Macedonia. Over the past three years our country was led by a social-democratic Government, which was involved...

Macedonia 29.09.19 | 23:24

VMRO will urge its EPP sister parties to support the opening of accession talks with Macedonia

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said that he will send a letter to the European People’s Party to request support from its member parties for Macedonia to open its EU accession talks in October. Mickoski notes that the current SDSM led Government is deeply corrupt, but insists that the...

Macedonia 13.09.19 | 11:01

Despite the corruption scandal, VMRO will ask EPP parties not to punish the Macedonian citizens

With the collapse of the judiciary, under the weight of a major corruption and abuse of office scandal in the most sensitive judicial institutions, Macedonia is having its case for opening EU accession talks rapidly deteriorate, just as the October European Council draws closer. VMRO-DPMNE President...

Macedonia 09.09.19 | 19:40

Nikoloski and Gjorcev represent VMRO at the EPP conference in Brussels

VMRO-DPMNE officials Aleksandar Nikoloski and Vladimir Gjorcev attend the European People’s Party conference in Brussels. Nikoloski said that they had a number of meetings with top European officials. VMRO is a member of the largest European conservative movement. The conference largely focused...

World 27.05.19 | 11:24

Following his comfortable win, Orban wants to re-energize the European right

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban celebrated his win in the European elections on Sunday by declaring that he proved his own people are closer to him than the migrants. Orban called on the center right EPP party to make sure it avoids coalitions with left wing radicals as it sets out to form the...

World 23.03.19 | 14:34

Szijjarto: Fidesz was not suspended, we decided to temporarily step aside from the EPP

Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto told RT that the European People’s Party (EPP) did not suspend Fidesz from the European Parliament, but in fact, a mutually acceptable compromise was reached under which Fidsz temporarily suspended themselves. Szijjarto explained how, while Fidesz is remaining firmly on...

Macedonia 20.03.19 | 20:18

Nikoloski in Brussels: Strong EPP support for Gordana Siljanovska Davkova

At the Political Assembly of the European People’s Party today in Brussels with the President of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, we are actively participating in the work of the EPP which discusses the upcoming EU elections, and the presidential elections in Macedonia too. Strong EPP support for...

World 19.03.19 | 21:17

EPP will discuss expelling Orban’s Fidesz party tomorrow

The European People’s Party, EU’s ruling right of center coalition, will meet tomorrow to discuss whether it should expel the Hungarian ruling Fidesz party from its ranks. Viktor Orban’s party has moved further to the right as EPP becomes more centrist and this has caused friction with...

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