17 November 2014
The maximum speed of vehicles on the roads in urban areas, from the previous 60 kilometers per hour, will be decreased to 50 kilometers per hour, is projected with the amendments to the Law on Road Traffic Safety, which is prepared and should be submitted for parliamentary procedure, confirm officials of MOI for META. According […]
17 November 2014
Community Center started working in the Municipality of Centar today. This center is meant to help citizens to actively engage in the work of the local unit. The center is funded by the Foundation Open Society Macedonia and it will employ a team of three who will provide legal assistance or advise citizens to better […]
16 November 2014
The head of the Greek diplomacy, Evangelos Venizelos, doesn’t see an opportunity for a solution to the name issue anytime soon. In an interview for the weekly Real News, Venizelos emphasized that there won’t be any new developments for faster resolution because of the unconstructiveness of the Macedonian side. “There is no new proposal from […]
16 November 2014
Under tight police security, the traditional tolerance march organized by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and the NGO Civil was held today at noon. Several dozen march participants gathered in 11:55 am at the Museum of the City of Skopje and across Macedonia street, they marched to the government building, and then across Goce […]
14 November 2014
After the long delay of the verdict on the case Monster, the court has now delayed the translation of the text of the verdict, delayed action, thus stopping the procedure for appeal of the defense for the first instance verdict to the Court of Appeal, stated lawyer Naser Raufi for Portalb. According to him, the […]
13 November 2014
Police called four suspects for questioning under reasonable suspicion of illegally entering the phone voting system for last night’s Skopje Festival, said officials of MOI at a news conference. The owners of the company which organized the phone voting and a production company and two more people were called for questioning, informed MOI. One of […]
13 November 2014
Employment in the municipalities are party-related, job advertisements are published only after it is known who would be employed, job interviews are subjective and not compliant with the merit system, and the appeal doesn’t work as an instrument. These are part of the conclusions from the research “Life without party membership card: employment in local […]
13 November 2014
The sureness in these evidence and arguments which confirm that there is no freedom and democracy in Macedonia, no free will of the citizens during elections, is so strong, it certainly gives us the right to put our political credibility as politicians at stake, said SDSM leader Zoran Zaev at last night’s debate in Kriva […]
12 November 2014
Census funds are not projected in the draft budget for next year. Neither in the item of the State Statistical Office (SSO), nor at the State Election Commission (SEC), which, according to some speculations, could carry out the census. The 2015 draft budget for SSO projects just over three million euros, which is insufficient to […]
12 November 2014
Четири убиства, од кои едно двократно и едно трикратно, на кои им претходело семејно насилство, се случиле од мај до ноември годинава, што е алармантната бројка која укажува на нефункционалноста на системот за заштита, реагираат од Националната мрежа против насилство врз жени и семејно насилство и Невладината организација „Хера“. Карактеристично за сите овие случаи е […]
11 November 2014
The last official proposal for the name of the United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz, which was offered to Macedonia and Greece last year, was announced today by BIRN. On the document which was discovered by BIRN, there is the date April 9, 2013, which coincides with the date of the meeting between the mediator and […]
10 November 2014
Assembly began the procedure for revocation of mandates of 31 MPs of the opposition SDSM, who didn’t appear even once in the Assembly within six months. On the morning meeting of coordinators of the parliamentary groups, it was agreed to authorize the General Secretary Zharko Denkovski to prepare a report on the presence of MPs […]
10 November 2014
Small fire that broke out in the Government building on Ilindenska street in Skopje this morning is localized and caused only minor damage, states Meta’s reporter. According to our sources, fire broke out in the eastern block of the Government building. Three fire units immediately rushed to the spot, but no greater intervention was needed. […]
10 November 2014
Six-month deadline from the verification of the mandates of opposition coalition, led by SDSM, expires today, but 31 of overall 34 MPs didn’t appear in Assembly even once. In accordance with parliamentary procedure, Trajko Veljanovski, Speaker of the Assembly, will request from General Secretary of the Assembly to make a presence list of all 123 […]
8 November 2014
Reporting crew of Albanian media group Top Channel, composed of several persons, was stopped in Mavrovo for police control, under the excuse that they didn’t have permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to shoot videos in Macedonia, newspaper Lajm reports. Reporters were held by police forces for an hour on the highway Vrben-Mavrovo for […]
