Tag: Strasbourg

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favor of Focus journalists in the case against Sašo Mijalkov, former head of the secret service in Macedonia. The ruling in Strasbourg comes after in 2014 Macedonian domestic courts ruled that Focus newspaper editor Jadranka Kostova and journalist Vlado Apostolov had to pay more than 9,000 euros as damages to...

The European Commission is again recommending opening accession talks with Macedonia, and the country's progress report is among the more positive parts of this package from Brussels, which, as the report says, "clearly recognizes the political will for progress,"reports Radio Free Europe (RFE), whose correspondents from Brussels had an insight into the document which is to be released tomorrow in...

Today, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) with 106 votes "for", elected Macedonian prosecutor for organized crime, Jovan Ilievski, as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Apart from Ilievski, other candidates for judges were Judge of the Constitutional Court, Professor Natasha Gaber- Damjanovska who received 86 votes, just as Zvonimir Jankulovski. Earlier, the Election...

The European Court for Human Rights ruled that in the case of the murder of Martin Neshkovski, there has been no violation of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights in terms of the effectiveness of the investigation into Martin Nehskovski's death, reported the "Akademik". Martin Neshkoski's mother Lenka Neshkoska, objected to the European Court of Human Rights...

A taxi driver from Prilep, who did not know he was transporting Albanian nationals illegally across the border, received a verdict at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in connection with the confiscation of his "Mercedes" vehicle. The state has to return him his vehicle within three months from the date of the verdict which the court confiscated...

The round of talks at the highest level between VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev with three MEPs and EU Commissioner for accession negotiations Johannes Hahn in Strasbourg has ended. The statement of the MEPs reads that the efforts of the two party leaders to work on a common agreement in the interest of the citizens and...

VMRO-DPMNE leader and Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev will tomorrow again meet in Strasbourg in an attempt to resolve the political crisis, confirmed Ilija Dimovski, MP from the ruling party, for META. VMRO-DPMNE informed us that they do not intend to accept a technical government. SDSM are also adamant in their demands. Petre Shilegov, party spokesman, stated...

This morning, the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on the case "Mitrinovski against Macedonia," in which the state is guilty of a violation of Article 6 paragraph 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights concerning the right to a fair trial. Macedonia will need to pay Mitrinovski 4,000 euros of immaterial damages and additional 1,230 euros...