Tag: pendarovski
Macedonia 19.12.19 | 13:27

The Komiti will only attend Pendarovski’s football group summit if he uses the name Republic of Macedonia

Komiti football fans, a group supportive of the Vardar team, said that it will accept the invitation from President Stevo Pendarovski to attend a meeting with rival Albanian football groups, but only if the President uses the name Republic of Macedonia during the event. Pendarovski said that he will...
Macedonia 18.12.19 | 13:53

Dimovski: Pendarovski failed to rise above the narrow SDSM partisan interests

VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Ilija Dimovski responded to President Pendarovski’s address before Parliament today by insisting that it only deepened divisions in Macedonia and failing to rise above the interests of his SDSM party. He apparently feels more comfortable repeating the positions of...
Macedonia 18.12.19 | 13:44

Pendarovski lamented how no politicians were arrested for corruption, in his Parliament address attended by Zaev and Remenski

In his annual address before the Macedonian Parliament, President Stevo Pendarovski lamented how the Colored Revolution movement was betrayed by its leaders. Speaking before the outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who is the leading recipient of presidential pardons in Macedonia, his political ally Pendarovski...
Macedonia 10.12.19 | 14:36

Pendarovski says he offered Macron troops for Mali and the option to expel future EU members

In an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, President Stevo Pendarovski says that he offered French President Emmanuel Macron the option to expel future EU members if they backslide in their democratic commitments. The proposal is part of Macedonia’s desperate push to have its request to open...
Macedonia 08.12.19 | 20:39

Pendarovski says he’s not certain elections will take place in April, as planned

President Stevo Pendarovski told the press that he is not certain elections will take place on April 12th next year, as the major parties agreed at the crisis meeting organized by Pendarovski after Macedonia was not given the date to open EU accession talks. A number of top officials from the ruling...
Macedonia 03.12.19 | 23:10

Pendarovski says he feels responsible for the fact that the rule of law in Macedonia is “half dead”

President Stevo Pendarovski expressed his regret that the rule of law in Macedonia has become “half-dead”. In an interview with TV24 that aired as the trial of disgraced former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva began, Pendarovski said that he also bears responsibility for the dramatic failure...
Macedonia 25.11.19 | 22:31

Following his gaffe, Pendarovski calls on all the parties to apologize to the public for the high emigration rate

President Stevo Pendarovski, in hot water over his comment advising the young people of Macedonia to leave the country, today tried to diffuse blame and called on all political parties to apologize to the public for the high emigration rate. Pendarovski’s advice to the young: If I weren’t...
Macedonia 24.11.19 | 12:13

“Did Gligorov advise the young to move out during the Greek embargo, or did Trajkovski tell them to go during the 2001 war?”

Former Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki tells President Stevo Pendarovski that his role is to serve as an inspiration to the country, and not further demoralize the yong students, entrepreneurs, farmers… Milososki called Pendarovski out after the President told the young of Macedonia that, if...
Macedonia 24.11.19 | 11:57

Mickoski: Pendarovski’s advice to the young to leave Macedonia is a shocking admission of defeat

In an interview with the Kurir news site, opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski responded to the shocking comment from President Stevo Pendarovski, who advised the young to leave the country. Speaking at a youth conference in Novi Sad, Pendarovski said that, if he weren’t President, he would pack...
Macedonia 23.11.19 | 17:20

Pendarovski attempts to do damage control after his shocking statement telling young people they should move out of Macedonia

President Stevo Pendarovski rushed to do some damage control after his shocking statement today, given at a youth gathering in Novi Sad, where he told the participants that if he weren’t President he would also emigrate from Macedonia. The statement is especially damaging given that during their...
Macedonia 23.11.19 | 14:56

Pendarovski’s advice to the young: If I weren’t President, I would move out of my country too

If a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth, President Stevo Pendarovski made the mother of all gaffes today. Speaking to an audience of young people from the Balkans gathered in Novi Sad, Pendarovski advised them to leave their countries. You only have one life to live, we all do, and...
Macedonia 22.11.19 | 14:57

Vucic: Zaev looked at me like I was crazy when I told him he will not get the EU accession talks date

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had some fun at the expense of his guest, President Stevo Pendarovski, as he retold how shocked Prime Minister Zoran Zaev looked when they discussed the EU accession talks. You’re asking me if Brussels knows what to do with itself, or with us. I will tell you...
Macedonia 12.11.19 | 16:45

Pendarovski says he received no guarantees from Macron, and that he offered a model under which Macedonia could be expelled from the EU even after joining

President Stevo Pendarovski said that he received no guarantees from French President Emmanuel Macron that Macedonia will be allowed to open EU accession talks soon. Pendarovski met with Macron at the Peace Forum in Paris, after the French President vetoed Macedonia and Albania at the October European...
Macedonia 10.11.19 | 16:52

Pendarovski denies meeting Alexander Soros in Ohrid, says he will do so in Paris next week

The office of President Stevo Pendarovski denied Republika’s report that he met Alexander Soros in Ohrid today. Pendarovski did confirm that he will meet the son of the leftist billionaire George Soros in Paris, during his visit early next week. Republika reported that Soros Jr. landed at the Ohrid...
Macedonia 30.10.19 | 13:00

NGO groups call on President Pendarovski to use the army to fight air pollution

NGO groups have called on President Stevo Pendarovski to order the deployment of the army to fight the air pollution, which is becoming a greater problem by the day, as temperatures dip and citizens fire up the furnaces. Each day we witness the burning of dump sites and forest fires which endanger the...
Macedonia 29.10.19 | 10:25

Pendarovski warns about high level corruption, makes another thinly veiled attack at Zaev

President Stevo Pendarovski is piling on in his growing rift with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Pendarovski warned that the greatest security threat Macedonia faces comes from high level corruption within the Government. The statement comes as Zaev is facing multiple major...
Macedonia 28.10.19 | 14:00

Rama snubbed Pendarovski in Tirana

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama stood up Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski, who was visiting Albania to discuss the snub both countries received from the European Union. Pendarovski met with his host Albanian President Ilir Meta and was supposed to meet Rama, but Albanian media report that the...
Macedonia 27.10.19 | 18:42

Meta and Pendarovski meet to reject all alternatives that fall short of full EU membership

The presidents of Albania and Macedonia Ilir Meta and Stevo Pendarovski dismissed the possibility of accepting alternatives that would fall short of full EU membership, even as France vetoed to possibility and outspoken supporters of the current regimes in both countries are floating the idea of a “Norway...
Macedonia 26.10.19 | 22:58

Rift between Zaev and Pendarovski on whether to keep implementing the Prespa treaty

Following the defeat in Brussels, there is a growing rift between Zoran Zaev and Stevo Pendarovski on the issue of the continued implementation of the Prespa treaty. Speaking to a Greek TV, Pendarovski said that by denying Macedonia the opening of accession talks, EU will provoke the putting on hold...
Macedonia 18.10.19 | 15:16

Pendarovski calls for restraint after the failure in Brussels

President Stevo Pendarovski addressed the public today to call for unity and restrain in light of the refusal of the EU member states to approve the opening of accession talks with Macedonia. Pendarovski said that he has invited the leaders of the main political parties to attend a meeting on Sunday,...
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