Tag: zhurnal
Macedonia 07.08.20 | 16:44

Zhurnal: Sekerinska is pushing SDSM toward a coalition with DUI, Oliver Spasovski is opposed

The Zhurnal news site reports that top SDSM officials are divided over whether to pursue another coalition with Ali Ahmeti’s DUI party. According to Zhurnal, which is a bilingual site and reports political developments from both the Macedonian and ethnic Albanian camps, Radmila Sekerinska was pushing...

Economy 02.11.19 | 10:21

Mickoski: First thing I’ll do as Prime Minister is to reduce taxes and give up privileges

The first thing I will do as President of the Government of Macedonia is to give up many of the Prime Minister’s privileges and I will cut taxes, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said in an interview with Zhurnal. Asked if he was considering reducing the number of deputy prime ministers and...

Macedonia 01.11.19 | 21:09

Mickoski says VMRO will take a pro-Macedonian approach to the identity issue

In an interview with the Zhurnal news site, VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski repeated his position that under his management, the party will reject both the outreach toward the ancient past – the so-called “antiquisation”, and the on-going “northernisation” – the imposition...

Macedonia 01.11.19 | 16:51

Mickoski: We can’t expect different EU outcomes with Zaev in charge

In an interview with the Albanian language news site Zhurnal, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski blamed the loss of the expected date to open EU accession talks on Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. He went to Brussels to beg for the date, and at the same time, he had the Parliament smuggle through amendments...