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For migrants it is standard procedure to be registered and filtered

The standard registration for a migrants with bio-metric data and they have to meet a precise criteria be able to sanction transit through the countries of the so-called Western Balkan route to the countries of the European Union who intend to seek asylum. This was...

Residents of Bitola tonight will protest against the sale of the old Officer’s Home

The residents of Bitola are planning to come out onto the streets for a peaceful protest to show the town that they want the Officers Home to stay in the Municipality's possession. The protest is scheduled for 18:00, and is being organised by the...

Today SDSM will submit their draft laws on the media to working groups

Today, the SDSM will submit their draft-laws on the media to all parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement. After which the working groups will meet to discuss the them. At present there is is still no scheduled date for a meeting between the negotiating teams,...

Migrants chant “Macedonia, Macedonia” from the Greek side of the border

In a video story broadcasted by the US television network CNN, from the Greek side of the border, one can clearly hear migrants chanting "Macedonia, Macedonia" while waiting at a petrol station near the Greek-Macedonia border-crossing Bogorodica / Idomeni. In the longer video one can...

Two new criminal charges have been brought against two prosecutors from aneva’s team

Two new criminal charges have been brought against two prosecutors from the Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva's team. Declarations, as informed by the Prosecution to "Meta" has been submitted by different individuals, and refer to the same crime - 'abuse of service.' This weekend, the...

Zaev: VMRO-DPMNE and DUI want to avoid fair and democratic elections

SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, after meeting with leaders of the National Democratic Revival (NDK), Vesel Memedi and the President of the Movement for Reform - DPA Zijadin Sela said that they all shared the same view, that on April 24 there will be no...

AJM and SSNM insists that political parties accept Vanhoutte’s proposals

Tomorrow political parties will continue with negotiations for reforms within the media, so that is why we called on the EU and US to insist that the negotiators accept the proposal of the Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhouttte, said Naser Selmani, the Chairman of the Association...

Michael Roth met with Poposki, Gruevski and Zaev

The Minister of State in the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Michael Roth, today met with Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, President of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, and the SDSM leader Zoran Zaev. Minister Poposki at the meetings said that internal political challenges are being overcome through...

Vanhoutte from Brussels will bring new draft-laws on the media

Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte is expected to submit a new draft-law on the media tomorrow, which will then be presented to all political parties who are signatories to the Przhino Agreement. According to our sources, the mediator was in Brussels at the weekend where...

Blockades continue today at the border crossings, Bogorodica, Dojran and Medzitilija

Today, Greek farmers will continue blocking the Macedonian-Greek border, at three different crossings: Bogorodica, Medzitlija and Dojran. The border crossing at Bogorodica will be blocked today from 11:00 to 13:00 and from 17:00 to 20:00, Dojran will be closed from 9:00 to 14:00 and 18:00...

Special Public Prosecution declares law suits for slander and insult

The Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) in a statement to the public expressed concern about the way certain media have been reporting, connected with their work and that of  the Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva. Despite the denial by certain media the SPP announced the initiation of...

Dimitriev: There is enough time until April 24 to organise fair and democratic elections

After meeting with the Ambassadors of the US and the EU in Macedonia, Jess Bailey and Aivo Orav, Interim Prime Minister, Emil Dimitriev stressed that "there is enough time and facilities until April 24 to organize free and fair elections in which all parties...

Poposki: Sealing Off the Border with Greece a Second-Worst Scenario

Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, in an interview with the "Wall Street Journal" says sealing the border with Greece would be the second worst scenario for dealing with the migrant crisis. Popovski said the best solution, would be to reduce the flow of migrants...

“High School Plenum”: The punishment of Ilina Dimovska is a classical example of censorship

The "High School Plenum" condemns the pressure recently put on the high-school student Ilina Dimovska from Veles, where her behaviour was deemed inappropriate after she had expressed her opinion on her "Facebook" profile about the school and they demand the school stops this punishment. From the...

Dimitriev moves into the Prime Ministers Cabinet, Gruevski still in top seat at VMRO-DPMNE

The Interim Prime Minister who will be conducting the election, Emil Dimitriev, now works in the Prime Ministers Cabinet, in the same seat as if his predecessor Nikola Gruevski, in the Government Building, confirmed the Government's Spokesman Aleksander Georgiev. The President of VMRO-DPMNE, however, spent...

75 civil society organizations make an appeal: Delay the elections or expect a boycott and protests

Without meeting the conditions for free, fair and democratic elections, and without moving the date, civil society activists will have no choice but to call for a boycott of the elections scheduled for April 24 and to organize mass protests against the regime, which continues to...

MTV put out an advertisement for the position of Editor for the news program

Macedonian Radio-Television today put out an advertisement for an editor of the news program for the first program service. The main requirements for this position are the following: higher education, five years of experience in journalism, fluency in a foreign language, independent work with computer...

SDSM will withdraw their objections over the SEC, if VMRO-DPMNE accepts proposals on the media from the International Community

We will withdraw our objections we have for the methodology of the renewal of the voters' list, if VMRO-DPMNE agree to accept the proposals from the International Community to reform the media, said Damian Manchevski from SDSM. “If this is not acceptable to VMRO-DPMNE, then...

“Freedom House”: Macedonia is a Partly Free Country

In a report done by "Freedom House", which looks into freedom across the globe, in 2015, with a rating of 3.5 Macedonia is ranked among countries who are 'partly free'. Political rights are evaluated with a 4, and civil liberties and evaluated with a 3. The...

Survey: VMRO-DPMNE are ahead in the polls by 6.4 percent infront of SDSM

If elections were held now, VMRO-DPMNE would win with 29.9 percent of the vote, while SDSM would receive 23.5 percent of the vote. 10.1 percent would vote for DUI and 4.3 percent for DPA, a telephone survey showed coordinated by the agency “Faktor Plus...