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Still no agreement over electoral law as negotiations continue
Negotiations between the working groups of the parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement and Peter Vanhoutte lasted late into the night, and at 2:30 am, they still had no success.
At the meeting, apart from mediator Peter Vanhoutte, Ilija Dimovski and Silvana Boneva from VMRO-DPMNE attended, Damijan Manchevski and Cvetanka Ilieva from SDSM attended, Artan Grubi and Fatmir Besimi from...
Meeting has finally begun over the electoral legislative agreement
The meeting between working groups, finally began between all signatories to the Przhino Agreement. Discussions over the Diaspora vote, and the responsibilities of the State Election Commission (SEC) should be decided.
At the meeting attended Ilija Dimovski and Silvana Boneva from VMRO-DPMNE, Damian Manchevski and Cvetanka Ilieva from SDSM, Artan Grubi and Fatmir Besimi from DUI, Bekim Fazliu and Imer...
Peter Vanhoutte: I am an optimist
The Bilateral meeting with MP Artan Grubi from DUI, and Belgian facilitator, Peter Vanhoutte came to an end.
They both declined to make a statement, although Mr Vanhoutte Van said shortly he is optimistic, but declined to comment on anything else
The Belgian expert will meet with representatives from SDSM at 16:00 pm.
Talat Xhaferi: It is the right of the Media if they eliminate wiretapped materials
“The law prohibiting the publication and distribution of the materials which were a result of unlawful wire-tapping of communications, I submitted it for parliamentary procedure on October the 6th with no intention to undermine the negotiations or to cause any damage. I submitted it because the negotiations were going so well and they were expected to come to a...
Peter Vanhoutte has bilateral meetings with all parties in Parliament
Belgian expert Peter Vanhoutte, who is one of the facilitators in the negotiations of the working groups to the parties to the Przhino Agreement, today has a series of meetings with representatives with various political parties in Parliament, to bring their views together on issues relating to election laws.
At 12:00 pm, he met with representatives from DPA, and at 14:00...
Negotiations hit a deadend, Ambassador Orav disappointed, the EU will submit its own bill
At four o'clock this morning the negotiations between the working groups of the Przhino Agreement came to an end; this time with no success. Despite the Belgian mediator Peter Vanhoutte's last minute optimism, it was reported that talks continued late into the night, in an extremely tense atmosphere.
According to unofficial information, because of the constant congestion, negotiations are expected...
Orav: Negotiations are continuing, and there is progress
Today at the Clubhouse for MP's, the Head of the EU Delegation Ambassador Aivo Orav said that the working groups had agreed on two laws, whistle-blowers and the disclosure of the "Bombs" were to be reworked.
“Negotiations are continuing, there is progress and I expect we will achieve an agreement by tonight”, said Ambassador Orav.
Currently at the Clubhouse of MP's...
Trajanovski: Ridiculous and transparent attempt to excuse themselves
For human rights expert ZarkoTrajanovski the law which prohibits the publication of the "bombs" in his opinion, is ridiculous and is a transparent attempt by a criminal gang to impose censorship and to excuse themselves, from the tangled situation they find themselves in.
“The same gang responsible for the mass illegal wire-tapping of thousands of people, who in 2010 legally allowed the...
Kalajdziev and Najchevska: Janeva’s team will not succeed
Katica Janeva's selection of prosecutors stirred some skepticism today, and comments from legal experts.
According to Professor Gordon Kalajdziev, who was shortlisted for the position of Special Public Prosecution, but was dismissed at the last moment, said there were a few strange things in the choice of the selected prosecutors.
“Firstly, it is obvious that they were politically selected because they...
While working groups negotiate, VMRO count their members and have been campaiging
In recent days local committees from VMRO-DPMNE have been working on their membership, making lists of active members, passive members, and supporters who have given up on them, 'Meta' has discovered. This activity was planned in anticipation of parliamentary elections, scheduled for April 2016, which the ruling party has taken seriously into account and is already campaigning.
Their teams go...
MVR entered an agreement to recognize driver’s licenses of five more countries
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVR) reported it concluded contracts for reciprocal recognition of driver’s licenses between Macedonia and Italy, Spain, Albania, Serbia and Montenegro.
MVR inform that based on the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic of 1968, Macedonia mutually recognizes driver’s licenses with Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Hungary, Belgium and Austria. There are ongoing talks about recognizing the...
Talks for implementing the political agreement have begun
The talks for implementing the agreement aimed at overcoming the political crisis have begun. The agreement was reached last week by leaders of the four biggest political parties in Macedonia and was mediated by the European Commissioner for union Enlargement.
Today’s meeting will be dedicated to matters concerning the scheduled early elections, which according to the deal should take...
SDSM: Gruevski is obsessed with us, he is forcing the media orchestra
In a statement to the public, the opposition SDSM said that Gruevski is scared of the solutions he has to agree with the opposition for releasing areas for which there is strong criticism in the report of Priebe: the media, the judiciary, regulatory bodies, such as the Anti-Corruption Commission, Public Security Bureau, SEC, PRO.
-It is indicated by today’s interview...
The negotiations in Przhino were undiplomatic and brutal
After signing the agreement of Przhino, European diplomats slowly began to open. The night was hard, they tell, and the representatives of the European institutions used "brutal" language to make clear to the four signatories that "this is the last chance", states a diplomatic source from a European institution that was present at all stages of the negotiations.
The implementation...
Ivanov welcomed the agreement and urged a membership invitation
The President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov welcomed the agreement of the political leaders reached in mediation of Commissioner Johannes Hahn and the MEPs Eduard Kukan, Ivo Vajgl and Richard Howitt.
- I expect the political climate to normalize as soon as possible, and to restore full commitment to European integration of Macedonia. Precisely in this area we will be challenged...
Reactions: Greetings, congratulations and praise for the deal
The European Commission and the three MEPs Richard Howitt, Eduard Kukan and Ivo Vajgl, with a joint statement welcomed the agreement and sent a message that "they will closely monitor the implementation in the coming months".
In September we will hold another high-level dialogue (HLAD), a platform established by the previous Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fule, and in it we...
They have agreed: Early elections on April 24 with 100 days with transitional government
The leaders of the four political parties, mediated by the EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn after long talks, late this morning, reached an agreement for exit of the political crisis in the country.
- We reached an agreement, signed by the leaders of the four major parties and I am satisfied with the achieved - said Han after the meeting...
Part of SYRIZA requests Tsipras to cancel the agreement with the EU
Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis requests Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to withdraw the agreement with creditors before making final decisions in the Parliament.
Lafazanis, who from the beginning is a sharp opponent of the demands and proposals of the European institutions and considers measures humiliating, said in his written decision that the agreement is unacceptable and goes against the national will...
Tsipras: The agreement is hard, but the worst case scenario for Greece was avoided
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras returns to Greece with a commitment the Greek Parliament to vote on the whole list conditions and priority actions agreed at the 17 hours of negotiations on a new Greek assistance in Brussels until Wednesday.
Plan B for Greece’s exclusion from the Eurozone is avoided, but for Greece to proceed to negotiations and the payment...
Hahn comes to Skopje next week
Recent developments in Macedonia led Commissioner Johannes Hahn to again schedule a trip to Skopje in the first half of next week, stated his spokeswoman Maja Kocijanik for META. It is unclear whether his visit will coincide with that of Victoria Nuland, but the US and the EU will coordinate.
Kocijanchik also stated that discussions between political leaders are in...
