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Analysts comment North Macedonia prime minister’s resignation: Political crisis imminent
The news of the resignation of the prime minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, both from the government and from the helm of his SDSM political party has been broadcasted by the most influential international news agencies and media around the world.
Zaev yesterday evening, just a few hours after the runoff local elections in North Macedonia, which brought a...
Trump’s rating plummet across the world, except in Macedonia, Israel, Liberia and Belarus
One year after the Donald Trump’s inauguration as America’s new president, his US ratings have plummeted in all countries, except four, including Macedonia, wrote Atlantic magazine in an article called, “What do Israel, Liberia, Belarus and Macedonia have in common?”
The research on the ratings, which Atlantic magazine refers to, was conducted by the Gallup agency in 134 countries in...
Zaev: We resolved the open issues with Vučić
Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, stated in an interview with the local TV H1 that he solved all open issues he had with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić after his statement regarding the Macedonian scenario that could transfer into Serbia, but also after the information that the former BIA member was in Parliament.
Zaev said that Serbia had no influence or bad...
Russian MFA ironically reprimanded Stoltenberg’s statement after his meeting with Zaev
A spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marija Zakharova, at today's press briefing ironically commented on the statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after meeting with Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, on Monday this week in Brussels.
Zakharova addressed Stoltenberg's statement in which he said that any outside interference in the internal political processes of a country...
Timeline: How the government changed in Macedonia
The past three years of the political crisis has been difficult, exhausting and stressful on Macedonia. The crisis was not just a political crisis, it crossed over into economics, society, morals and ethics. There were a series of protests and counter protests, trials and counter trials, investigations and counter investigations. Then the Pržino Agreement was signed, and then Pržino...
Zaev will be attending dinner with Mogherini and the Prime Ministers of the Western Balkans tomorrow
Tomorrow, the leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev, will be travelling to Brussels to attend an informal dinner with the Prime Ministers from the Western Balkans and the High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, Federica Mogherini, confirmed SDSM.
Last week, Mogherini sent invitations to the six Prime Ministers of the Western Balkans for dinner in Brussels,...
Hoyt Yee asked for a meeting with Ivanov, but the President is too busy
The Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the Us Department of State, Hoyt Brian Yee, will not be meeting with the president Gjorge Ivanov, confirmed the president’s cabinet for Meta.
“The cabinet of the President of Republic of Macedonia was sent a request for a meeting with the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian...
Hoyt Lee will arrive in Skopje on May the 1st to meet with political leaders
On Monday, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs at the US State Department, Hoyt Brian Yee will be arriving in Macedonia in an attempt to help overcome the political crisis.
The US Embassy in Skopje announced that Hoyt Yee will travel to Macedonia on May 1, 2017 to engage political leaders on the status of government formation,...
Gruevski has told the ambassadors that the elections are the fastest ways for solving the crisis
VMRO-DPMNE’s president Nikola Gruevski had talks with the ambassadors of Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and Netherlands, Christine Althauser, Charles Garrett, Mats Staffanson and Wouter Plomp about the current political situation, the opinion, and stance of VMRO-DPMNE regarding its solution.
At the meeting, during which the members of the party’s Executive Committee were present, Nikola Poposki, Nikola Todorov, and Vladimir...
Instead of new elections, a new government should be formed, says Plomp, Staffansson and Jazbec
The Ambassadors of Sweden, Netherlands and Slovenia, Mats Staffansson, Wouter Plomp, and Milan Jazbec, said today that Brussels doesn’t see the need of organizing new early parliamentary elections especially because the last elections were marked as fair and free, and the new elections would only deepen the political crisis in Macedonia.
"The elections that were organized in December were free...
Arifi: We shall wait for the Constitutional court to make a decision regarding the local elections
DUI’s Vice President and mayor of the city of Tetovo, Teuta Arifi, said that for a solution to the political crisis it is most important that a president of the Parliament is elected. She isn’t casting off the idea of a leadership meeting, stressing that “DUI has never run away from meetings regardless if they are among leaders or...
Dimitriev scolds Rama on Facebook
While my colleague in Albania is pulling out scenarios from “his sleeve” such as the unification of Kosovo and Albania, until European integration falls apart for the country’s of this region, his team of lawyers are trying to justify the thesis that what Rama wants, is election points at home, by brutal interference into Macedonia’s processes of a “friendly...
Bushati: There was an agreement with Gruevski which was rejected due to reasons unrelated to Albania
Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ditmir Bushati, who resides in Washington, denied that the “Tirana platform” exists and that Albania is interfering in Macedonia’s internal affairs.
Bushati, who was a guest at the “German Marshall Fund” think-tank, refused to answer a question by American experts as to what the statement issued by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for the unity...
Ivanov will not assign the mandate because he respects the Constitution
President Gjorge Ivanov will not assign the mandate until all legal and political obstacles are removed. At the press conference with the Chairman of the Presidency of BIH, Mladen Ivanic, he said that he cannot make a decision which can later be challenged.
"If such a decision is challenged, then my responsibility will be questioned. That is why I insist...
The elections and the debates are long gone and now it is time for a government to be formed, said Žbogar
It is time for the country to go forward, for the state institutions to be formed, a president of the Parliament to be elected and a government to be formed, said the Euro Ambassador Samuel Žbogar during his visit to Negotino. He also said that the time of the elections and the post-electoral discussions are long gone.
According to Žbogar,...
Gruevski has informed Bildt about “the priorities that are well known to the public”
Bildt finished his visit to Macedonia after the meeting with the party leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, but the party isn’t revealing any details about the meeting.
https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/854392505651138562
When asked by Meta whether there will be an announcement about the meeting, the party replied that there won’t be any and they sent us the following message: “The president of VMRO_DPMNE,...
Carl Bildt announced on his twitter account that he will arrive in Skopje today
The former chief of Swedish diplomacy Carl Bildt on his twitter profile announced that he will arrive in Skopje today. Even though he hasn’t revealed any details about the visit, on his twitter profile he also wrote that “No end in sight for the constitutional crisis in Skopje. Trenches look even deeper. Grave situation”
https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/853921883351379968
More than a month ago, through...
SDSM: Ivanov is an accomplice to the evil which is being inflicted on the people
Gjorge Ivanov has no right to act like a tyrant to his people, just so he can satisfy one man and his families needs and their criminal platforms, reads a reaction statement by SDSM concerning the interview with the President and Austrian newspaper “Wiener Zeitung”.
In their reaction, they stated that Ivanov is an accomplice to the evil which is...
Ivanov: Even if a Parliament Speaker is elected I will not assign the mandate
Forming a government without a justified mandate is legally unjustifiable, said President Gjorge Ivanov in an interview for Austrian newspaper “Wiener Zeitung.”
"Such a government would be without presidential legitimacy i.e. without constitutional basis. It is only a wish. It is legally unjustified. Such a government will have no legitimacy. This is clearly stated in our Constitution. In accordance with...
Ademi – Baily: The complexity of the situation requires a fast solution for a way out of the crisis
The complexity of the situation in Macedonia, the region and beyond, in the European Union, lies a country which needs to find a fast way out of the political crisis, “using the available political and institutional capacities, to return to its pro reform course.” This was said by the Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, Arber Ademi during today’s...
