Tag: sanctions
Macedonia 18.07.23 | 22:29

Macedonian company put on a US black list for developing spy software

Cytrox, a Macedonian software company, is one of the three companies put on a US black list for producing software used for wiretapping. The sanctions against this company, that was linked with businessman Ivo Malinkovski, also cover a Greek, Irish and a Hungarian company. The US State Department concluded...
Balkans 02.07.23 | 08:53

EU measures against Kosovo go into effect

EU measures against Kosovo went into effect as the Government there is being punished for its refusal to allow the Serbian municipalities to organize into an association. Kosovo will no longer be invited to high level meetings and will be left out of a 2.1 billion EUR investment fund for the region....
Macedonia 21.06.23 | 13:25

Aggeler: The people of Macedonia deserve integrity by their elected officials

United States Ambassador Angela Aggeler says the people of Macedonia deserve integrity from their public officials and a system that holds them accountable, following the designation of Struga Mayor Ramiz Merko and his family as ineligible for entry into the United States, based on findings of significant...
Macedonia 21.06.23 | 12:25

Nephew: The State Secretary has credible information that Merko was involved in serious corruption

Richard Nephew, US State Department Corruption Coordinator, stated in an interview with the Voice of America in Albanian language that they couldn’t share more details as to why the Struga Mayor Ramiz Merko was added to the so-called US “black list”. “The decision was made because...
Macedonia 23.01.23 | 22:56

US Ambassador Aggeler expects several persons to be put on a black list in the coming months

US Ambassador to Macedonia Angela Aggeler said that in the coming months the Macedonian public will hear names of official who will be put on US black lists for their corruption. Aggeler pointed out that several US institutions are looking into corruption allegations in Macedonia, which has become a...
Macedonia 10.12.22 | 23:15

Zaev’s former right hand man Dragi Raskovski hopes that the US investigators will help him avoid prison

Zoran Zaev’s former chief of staff Dragi Raskovski, who is one of the few SDSM party officials who were investigated for the rampant corruption of their regime over the past five years, also welcomed the arrival of a US team of sanctions experts. Current SDSM office holders were among the first...
Macedonia 10.12.22 | 19:29

Mickoski advises the US team of corruption investigators to begin their work in the Government

The team of American investigators should begin its work in the Government, which is rife with corruption, that can be uncovered without much in-depth analysis, using institutions such as the Interior Ministry, the UJP tax authority and the land cadastre, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said...
World 29.10.22 | 11:52

Orban: Europe fell into the sanctions hole it dug for Russia

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that the European Union has fallen into its own trap when it imposed sanctions on Russia. He cited the spiking costs of energy and the lack of raw materials that European industry and households are now facing. The sanctions have not worked as Brussels expected...
World 31.05.22 | 10:51

EU countries clinch deal on sanctioning Russian oil imports

The 27 EU member states reached a compromise on new sanctions on Russia by exempting Russian oil imported by land to the bloc in a deal agreed at a Brussels summit late Monday. “This immediately covers more than [two-thirds] of oil imports from Russia, cutting a huge source of financing for its war...
Macedonia 12.04.22 | 11:43

Gruevski responds to the US sanctions: My fight to protect Macedonian national interests earned me many enemies

Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski responded to the decision of the US Government to blacklist him for alleged corruption. Gruevski, and his cousin and former security chief Saso Mijalkov, are barred entry to the US and any their property there will be frozen. For a while there was talk about what...
Macedonia 08.04.22 | 12:24

Belarus added Macedonia on its list of hostile countries

After Russia, Belarus also added Macedonia on its list of hostile countries, after Macedonia joined in teh sanctions on Belarus. The list includes the EU member states and countries like US, UK, Australia, Canada. The designation will include economic restrictions on Macedonian citizens and companies.
Macedonia 25.03.22 | 15:42

Kovacevski: It’s not decent that Macedonia asks for compensation from the EU for damage caused by the Russia sanctions

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski announced that Macedonia will not seek compensation from the European Union after it joined the EU sanctions against Russia. According to Kovacevski, it is not “decent” to ask for reimbursement during a crisis. When it comes to a global crisis, we can’t...
Balkans 15.03.22 | 18:53

Just gratitude from the EU: Brussels doesn’t plan to help countries in the region that have backed sanctions on Russia as compensation for the damage

Brussels says it is grateful to the Western Balkan countries for backing EU sanctions on Russia, but does not say it plans to compensate for the damage that those countries could suffer as a result of this alignment with EU measures, “Politika” has learned. Asked by Macedonian media whether...
World 10.03.22 | 13:42

Orban meets with EU prime ministers and EC president to discuss the war in Ukraine

Ahead of the extraordinary EU summit in France on Thursday, the Hungarian prime minister held a preparatory video conference with European Council President Charles Michel, and the prime ministers of Slovakia, Ireland and Spain, Bertalan Havasi, head of the Prime Minister’s Press Office, told Hungary’s...
Macedonia 25.02.22 | 13:27

Russia prepares its own sanctions against the West, Macedonia will also be targeted

Russia announced that it will respond with sanctions against the US, the EU and other countries who introduces sanctions against Russia, over its attack on Ukraine. Macedonia is among the countries that subscribed to the EU sanctions and will face Russian sanctions. Valentina Matviyenko, President of...
World 24.02.22 | 22:04

Biden announces tough new sanctions against Russia

US President Joe Biden announced tough new sanctions against Russian businesses over the attack on Ukraine, but acknowledged that there was no support in the EU to exclude Russia from SWIFT bank transfers, which are considered as crippling. We have purposefully designed these sanctions to maximize a...
Macedonia 24.02.22 | 13:43

Macedonia joins EU sanctions on Russian Federation

Government adopted Thursday the report on a new set of European Union sanctions related to the Ukraine crisis and a recommendation for Macedonia to join all EU decisions in this regard. Moreover, the Government instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the EU Permanent Mission in Brussels,...
Macedonia 06.07.21 | 22:53

Macedonia joins the EU in introducing targeted sanctions against Belarus

Macedonia joined the EU member states in introducing sanctions against Belarus. EU candidate countries and members of the EFTA, such as Montenegro, Albania, Iceland…, aligned their positions with the EU on Belarus. Serbia is the one exception. The sanctions target 78 citizens of Belarus and seven...
Macedonia 18.06.21 | 11:41

VOA: Biden’s sanctions will not apply to individual citizens who criticize the Prespa treaty

A State Department spokesman told VOA – Macedonian that the recently announced sanctions against people undermining the Prespa treaty will not apply to individual citizens who are critical of the treaty. The spokesman said that the intent of the United States is not to prevent private citizens...
Macedonia 21.12.20 | 09:14

Why doesn’t Zaev’s government follow Montenegro in sanctions against Russia

MP Antonio Milososki publicly asks whether Macedonia agrees on a common foreign and security policy with the EU. In addition, Milososki published documents showing that Macedonia did not join the sanctions imposed by the EU Council against Russia for violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Unlike...
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