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Environmentalists announce a blockade of the road to Bulgaria because of the Ilovica mine

Under the motto "All Against the Mine of death", the environmental initiative from Strumica "Healthy valley" that is fighting against the opening of the Ilovica mine, has announced a two-hour warning blockade of the traffic at the exit of Strumica towards Bulgaria, as well a the transit road in all directions, on the 10th of November, starting at 11.30...

Mickoski: VMRO-DPMNE will not be taking part in the Parliament’s work due to a lack of democratic ambient

The president of the biggest opposition party announced today in front of the Parliament that VMRO-DPMNE's MP group will not be taking part in its work until "the government's political prosecution against its opponents stops" and until the people taken into detention aren't released. -In Macedonia, at the moment, there isn't any democratic ambient that would contribute to a...

VMRO-DPMNE: Every day we shall be blocking a border passage

The Ministry of Interior informed today that it received a notification from VMRO-DPMNE that it shall start blocking the border passages in the forthcoming four days. The party will block the Bogorodica border passage between 16-18h, and tomorrow the Kjafasan passage between 17-18h, on Friday it shall block the Deve Bair border pass between 17-18h and on Sunday, on...

VMRO-DPMNE will not be taking part in the session for the election of a public prosecutor

VMRO-DPMNE’s MP group will not be taking part in today’s three parliamentary sessions among which is the election of the new state public prosecutor, said VMRO-DPMNE’s MP Ane Lashkoska. -We will not take part in because the parliamentary majority isn’t creating nor it wants to create democratic conditions for work because a political purge of political opponents is done...

VMRO-DPMNE will be blocking intersections the whole month ahead

The Ministry of Interior informs that VMRO-DPMNE has announced that in the forthcoming 30 days, between 15-17 h, will be blocking several intersections. MOI stresses that the traffic police will take measures for traffic control and regulation in order to ease the chaos during the blockades. During the blockades of the intersection at Mavrovka shopping mall, the intersection of...

Various vehicles have blocked the boulevard in front of the court as the protest against SPO’s charges continues

Several citizens with their vehicles have blocked the Goce Delcev Boulevard in front of the Criminal Court in Skopje as a protest against the charges that were filed by the Special Public Prosecution. At the court were also filed requests for putting high-ranking VMRO-DPMNE officials into custody, including several ministers, among which is the party leader and former Prime...

MOI has identified the persons that opened the front gates of Parliament for the crowds

The Sector for Internal Affairs Skopje (SVR) has submitted three new notifications about several individuals at the Public Prosecutor's Office (OJO) regarding the investigation into the violence that occurred at the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia last Thursday. The notifications were sent after the video footage from the security cameras at Parliament were reviewed and the showed the people...

SDSM: The blockade of democratic processes will lead to criminal charges

The democratic processes will continue and the country must continue to function at full capacity, because the livelihood of the citizens is at stake, and businesses due to unreasonable blockades that are preventing a peaceful transfer of power, stated SDSM’s regular morning press release. “Outgoing Ministers have technical powers. In a very short time, all powers of the Mayors and...

Kukan hopes for a significant reversal of the crisis in Macedonia and the Balkans

The MEP Eduard Kukan, a rapporteur for Macedonia in the European Parliament, in an interview for the European Western Balkans said that in the upcoming months he expects a significant reversal in the political situation in Macedonia and other Balkan countries where there is a trend of blockades and boycotts of key institutions. "We are facing serious political crises in...

Veljanovski schedules the continuation of Parliament’s constitutive session for next Tuesday

By congratulating the upcoming Easter Holidays to the citizens of Macedonia, Parliament Speaker, Trajko Veljanoski scheduled the next constitutive session for Tuesday (18th of April) starting at 11:00am. Even at the 12th continuation of the constitutive session, MPs stood by their party positions and discussed the Tirana platform, the Law for the use of languages, the Ohrid Framework Agreement and...

SDSM: They have to come to their senses rather than thinking about Mijalkov’s oil

Gjorge Ivanov must allow for a peaceful transfer of power rather than to protect criminals, said SDSM’s morning press release, which states that “Ivanov’s and Gruevski’s scenario for blockade of democratic processes due to criminal interests.” “A reason must prevail instead of interests concerning Mijalkov’s oil. The citizens have heard about the six million of euros that Gruevski’s cousin,...

SDSM: It is necessary that Parliament is unblocked instead of protecting criminals

“Macedonia will be a law abiding country. There will be thorough reforms in the judiciary and prosecution and there will be a justice for all. That is the reason why VMRO-DPMNE’s MPs are blocking democratic processes in Parliament. They think in that manner they will be able to protect VMRO-DPMNE’s management from crimes in the past 10 years that...

DUI is considering withdrawing its ministers from government

At today’s meeting of DUI’s central residency, which is occurring at the party’s headquarters in Mala Rechica, there will be a discussion for withdrawal of DUI’s ministers from the government, said party sources for “Meta.” If the central presidency decides to make this decision the current government will remain without a third of its ministers. According to their calculations, this will...

The Greek blockades and the frozen Danube have burdened the railroad traffic

The railroad traffic is overburdened and the train capacities are completely full, as was alarmed by the Macedonian companies that are seeking for alternative transportation because of the blockade of the border crossing Evzoni by Greek farmers for the third week. The manager of Macedonian railroads “Transport” Nikola Kostov, for Meta said that there won’t be any delays of the...

Because of the Enormous Pollution, starting from Thursday the People of Bitola will Start Blocking the Road that Leads to REK Bitola

The people of Bitola will start protesting again against the polluted air. After several weeks of enormous pollution, the organization “It’s About Us” has called upon for a blockade of the road that leads from Bitola to REK Bitola with a slogan “Bitola is suffocating, Bitola is dying,” The blockades are announced to start from Thursday to Saturday, between 15...

Refugees have withdrawn from the motorway Evzoni – Thessaloniki

The motorway Evzoni - Thessaloniki is now open and vehicles are moving freely. The hundred refugees this morning who blocked the road in protest, asked that borders be opened to continue their journey to Europe. Soon after the police opened the road for vehicles and is now free to travel and to Thessaloniki and in the direction of Thessaloniki to...

New protest by refugees and a blockade of the motorway Evzoni – Thessaloniki

The motorway from the Greek-Macedonian border to Thessaloniki has been blocked again by refugees. Around one hundred people blocked the road near Polikastro in protest to the living conditions in the temporary migrant camps and in Idomeni and in Kilkis. The refugees set up the first blockade yesterday to protest both at Polikastro and the crossing Evzoni. From this morning...

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 to 20:00 Macedonian time, while Medzitlija will face a blockade from 11:00-13:00 and 18:00-20:00. Farmers have...

Greek farmers might block the border crossing at Dojran

It is possible that Greek farmers today intend to block the border crossing at Dojran from 11:00-13:00 Macedonian time. According to announcements from the farmers, from the area surrounding Kilkis, they plan either to block the motorway Thessaloniki – Petrich, or block the border crossing Dojran - Dojrani. In the area of Kilkis, farmers have gathered 450 tractors and a large...

“Come out for some Air”: If the Government does not take necessary measures in the next 5 days we will take radical action

Environmental associations and organizations, five days before the deadline they gave the authorities to address the problem over the enormous air pollution, are not optimistic that the authorities will be apply measures which were proposed to them. Until now, none of the measure have been implemented which were proposed by environmental organizations at the protest on December 28 before the...