Tag: Zaev
Macedonia 10.04.21 | 22:48

Police photos display guns and money seized from the marijuana couriers working for Zaev’s family

Photographs from the raids conducted yesterday reveal the weapons cache that was seized from Aleksandar Uslikovski, driver of Zoran Zaev’s cousin Trajce Zaev. Uslikovski was arrested along with the police commissioner of Prilep Kiril Spirkoski, as they were escorting a shipment of 200 kilograms of...
Macedonia 10.04.21 | 22:31

Zaev and Filipce head out for another motorcycle joyride

Unfazed with public criticism after their helicopter joyride last week, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce, with their retinue, took a motorcycle ride around Krusevo. At a time when Zaev and Filipce are urging the public to remain in their homes unless they have pressing...
Macedonia 10.04.21 | 11:40

VMRO-DPMNE calls on the Interior Ministry to explain the involvement of the Zaev family in the latest drug seizure

VMRO-DPMNE called on the Interior Ministry to disclose the involvement of the ruling Zaev family in the latest drug scandal – the arrest of the Prilep police commissioner yesterday while he was personally escorting a large shipment of marijuana. The drugs, worth 800,000 EUR, were driven in a van...
Macedonia 10.04.21 | 09:25

Nikoloski: The mafia passports scandal will affect Macedonia’s EU accession

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski warned that the growing scandal revealing Zaev regime’s links to regional mafia organizations will damage Macedonia’s EU accession prospects. This scandal will certainly influence our European path. For three years, passports were issued to criminals...
Macedonia 09.04.21 | 10:46

VMRO-DPMNE: The corruption of Zaev and Filipce contributed to the record death toll

Zaev and Filipce caused heartache in hundreds of families with their incompetence in vaccine procurement, the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party said. The party points to the failed contracts for purchasing vaccines, at least one of which was cancelled after Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce tried to insert...
Macedonia 08.04.21 | 13:57

Zaev sees no problem in the meeting between his coalition partner and Turkish mobster Sedat Peker

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev fully defended his Interior MInister Oliver Spasovski, who is facing mounting allegations that he allowed the issuing of passports to a number of regional and European mobsters. The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party so far revealed five mob bosses and hitmen operating in Italy, Serbia,...
Macedonia 08.04.21 | 13:53

Zaev stands by Interior Minister Spasovski and coalition partners who issued passports to and met with regional mob bosses

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev fully defended his Interior MInister Oliver Spasovski, who is facing mounting allegations that he allowed the issuing of passports to a number of regional and European mobsters. The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party so far revealed five mob bosses and hitmen operating in Italy, Serbia,...
Macedonia 06.04.21 | 15:51

Mickoski: Zaev needs to assume responsibility for his failures during the epidemic

Zaev needs to stop talking about him in the third person and needs to assume responsibility for the failures of his healthcare policies, said opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski. Yesterday Zaev was asked about the tremendous lag in providing vaccines and the lack of restrictive measures due to his insistence...
Macedonia 06.04.21 | 12:32

Zaev’s office hides the names of dozens of his part time advisers and employees

The Zaev cabinet is hiding the identities of nearly 60 advisers who are being paid nearly 40,000 EUR a month, BIRN reports. The news outlet asked the cabinet to reveal the names of this category of part time advisers and employees, but were refused citing privacy considerations. The contracts are different...
Macedonia 06.04.21 | 11:03

Prosecutor Ruskoska will allow the Interior Ministry to “investigate itself” in the “passports for drug lords” scandal

Organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska said that she will wait on the Interior Ministry to investigate itself in the case of the issuing of travel documents to regional drug lords. Ruskoska was asked about the scandal by the press, after the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party revealed that a top Turkish...
Macedonia 05.04.21 | 10:03

A populist with record of tough talk on Macedonia pronounced kingmaker after the elections in Bulgaria

The ITN party lead by Bulgarian showman Slavi Trifonov, who has frequently made nationalist comments aimed at Macedonia, is the main winner of the general elections held there yesterday. Trifonov is projected to surpass the BSP socialist party to be second largest party in Bulgaria, behind the ruling...
Macedonia 02.04.21 | 23:28

Zaev expects a deal with Bulgaria in May or June

Zoran Zaev said that he excepts a solution to the dispute with Bulgaria to be found in May or June, after the Bulgarian elections, and that Macedonia will begin its EU accession talks by the end of the year. In a TV interview, Zaev insisted that he will not accept negotiations with the Macedonian national...
Macedonia 02.04.21 | 21:44

Zaev flounders, lies, as he tries to avoid scrutiny for his helicopter ride

Faced with public outrage after he took a police helicopter for a ride from Skopje to Prilep, Zoran Zaev tried a number of ways to deflect. First he came up with the explanation that the pilots have a mandated number of hours they need to spend in the air each month, and would have flown empty if it...
Macedonia 02.04.21 | 20:09

Mickoski: While our people are dying, Zaev and his ministers are going on helicopter rides

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski strongly condemned the abuse of public resources by Zoran Zaev and his Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce, when they took a police helicopter for the trip from Skopje to Prilep. The two officials who frequently take joyrides with motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles...
Macedonia Economy 01.04.21 | 21:14

VMRO calls on Zaev to answer questions about his proposed Alexandroupoli gas project

VMRO-DPMNE called on Prime Minister Zoran Zaev to explain the benefits of his idea to have Macedonia invest in a gas powered plant in Greece. The US sponsored project will include the construction of an LNG terminal in Alexandroupoli that could supply the Balkans with some of the local energy needs,...
Macedonia 01.04.21 | 17:36

Zaev denies reports that Government ministers were vaccinated in secret, announces a deal for 500,000 Sinovac vaccines

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev denied media reports that members of the Government were secretly vaccinated – as was reported by the Albanian News1 site. Government denies that Carovska, Maricic and Grubi got vaccinated jumping the line Curiously compared to other countries, no Government official...
Macedonia 31.03.21 | 16:52

Zaev sides with Filipce in his vaccine dispute with President Pendarovski

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev took the side of his Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce in Filipce’s dispute with President Stevo Pendarovski. Filipce and Pendarovski traded barbs all day yesterday, blaming each other for the lack of vaccines that forced Macedonian citizens to go to Serbia to get inoculated....
Macedonia 30.03.21 | 22:05

After abandoning his Albanian base on two key concessions, Zaev now promises them a deal on the “citizenship law”

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev made a public offering to the Albanian opposition parties that he will compromise with them on their proposed citizenship law. The Alliance of Albanians and Alternative claim that tens of thousands of Albanians who permanently live in Macedonia have not been able to get citizenships...
Macedonia 30.03.21 | 19:09

Nikolovski protects Zaev’s adviser Dragi Raskovski as the public demands his resignation over his latest corruption scandal

Deputy Prime Minister Ljupco Nikolovski refused to call for the removal of the scandal ridden Government adviser Dragi Raskovski. Raskovski, who is one of the closest people to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, faced numerous scandals in the first term of the Government, and now faces calls to resign even from...
Macedonia 30.03.21 | 00:01

Luma: Today, Mickoski took the advantage over Zaev, and will badly defeat him at the coming general elections

Doctor and political activist Ilir Luma believes that Zoran Zaev harmed himself badly with ethnic Albanian voters and parties with his decision today to accept the VMRO-DPMNE demand to postpone the census for September. Albanian parties were hoping to hold a “corona census” with depressed...
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