17 October 2016
At tomorrow’s session, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia should dissolve if early parliamentary elections are to be held on December 11. The initiative to dissolve Parliament was filed by SDSM, the ruling VMRO-DPMNE only accepted on the condition that the budget for 2017 is adopted. On the official website for Parliament, tomorrow’s 125th […]
6 October 2016
Parliament it seems, will be not dissolve on October 12, on a different date, but no later than the 27th of this month, we learned from sources within Parliament. Determined by the rules The first reason is that the parliamentary debate on the budget for 2017 has not yet been completed. The document is still […]
23 September 2016
The leader of the SDSM party, Zoran Zaev is worried that the VMRO-DPMNE and DUI do not really want fair and democratic elections, stated the SDSM. He addressed the problem in a letter he wrote to the ambassadors who are guarantors in the Pržino Agreement. Zaev wrote in the letter that the adoption of the […]
20 September 2016
The Government at yesterday’s session approved the draft budget for 2017 and later today, it is expected to be submitted to Parliament. The Minister of Finance Kiril Minoski explained that the budget for 2017 has been prepared on the basis of a projection for economic growth of 3% next year. “Total revenue of the consolidated […]
19 September 2016
The Government has come to the decision on a new project to build a distribution network of natural gas, which they announced over the weekend. However, the SDSM party believes that with less than three months before the elections, the Government is attempting to carry out one of the most scandalous and corrupt tender processes […]
12 September 2016
The second draft for the balancing of the budget, which has turned into a discussion between the Electoral Commission and Parliament, states that the budget for the State Election Commission remains close to 104 million denars. (1.6million euros) which was predicted in the first supplementary budget of June, this year. Then the SEC had its […]
6 September 2016
The additional Deputy Minister of Finance, Kire Naumov met with the Minister of Finance Kiril Minovski, where they discussed current topics such as the borrowing with the new Eurobond, the reimbursement of the flood victims, as well as the budget for 2017. Naumov believes that in the current political situation, “temporary budget financing” is needed, […]
30 August 2016
The opposition has a different view from the government as to where to provide 36.4 million euros, which are meant to serve as compensation to citizens from the flooded areas, said the Chairman of the Committee for Finance and Budget, Marjanco Nikolov from the SDSM, at today’s session on the revised budget. “To provide these […]
11 July 2016
The Economic Chamber of North-West Macedonia (SKSM) expressed concern about the state’s intention to issue a Eurobond in the amount of 650 million euros and believes that the money is to buy social peace, and not to bring fresh capital to the economy. According to SKSM, the Eurobond will be used to cover current obligations, […]
29 June 2016
The new Minister of Finance, Kiril Minoski today reported the final sum od the budget for the tear of 2015, before the members of the Parliamentary Commission for Finance and Budget. Total revenue on the budget was 161 million denars, total expenditure 180 million denars, and the deficit amounts to 19 million denars. At the […]
28 June 2016
With the proposal re-balance budget for this year, 400 million denars will be cut from the budget of the State Election Commission, which raises the question will there be elections this year or not? At the beginning of the year, when MPs adopted the budget, the budget for the SEC was over 531.000.000 denars, however […]
27 June 2016
The proposal re-balance for the budget will cut the budgets at a majority of state institutions, but this is not the case for the Constitutional Court, the Ministry of Interior, or the Intelligence Agency. For example, the budget for 2016, funds allocated for the Constitutional Court are 35.945.000 denars, and with the proposal rebalance that […]
7 May 2016
It will be necessary to rebalance the budget because income is now decreasing, said the President of MANU (Macedonian Academy for Science and Arts), and academic, Taki Fiti during the Conference “Republic of Macedonia on its journey to the European Union, 2020, Experiences, Challenges and Prospects”. According to Fiti, the new projections from the National […]
30 January 2016
The past few days, the Government has approved jobs, premises and vehicles to secure conditions for the State Election Commission to work and to be able to function. Also DUI and VMRO-DPMNE withdrew any comments or shortcomings they had on the methodology of the SEC had prepared for cleansing voters’ list. The ruling coalition of […]
27 January 2016
With 64 votes “for” and 1 abstention, today Parliament adopted the proposed budget for the Special Prosecutor’s Office. For the decision it is expected to reallocate funds from other institutions of the Republic of Macedonia in the amount of approximately four million euros, that are designed for the continuous operation and autonomous operation of the SPP. […]
14 January 2016
A project that will be implemented by “Transparency Macedonia” in cooperation with the Centre for Economic Analysis will be monitoring media presentations, the expenses of political parties, the spending of the budget by the central and local government during the pre-election and election period. The project will supervise the spending of the budget and the […]
27 December 2015
Ohrid next year will be counting on a budget of 18 million euros. The municipal council has approved the development plan for 2016. To the governing majority of VMRO-DPMNE, it is functional and a sustainable budget, and will leave space for budget opportunities that will not create a new debt, and will be able to […]
26 December 2015
Three projects in three municipalities in Skopje are united in one thing – they all have a primarily decorative function. Park of lakes in Aerodrom, the Bohemian street in the Centre, and the Delfina Square, although in different municipalities, they have a common denominator – high costs and the constant boasting with why and how […]
25 December 2015
Cut off from civilization in the 21st century, there are almost ten thousand inhabitants of the villages of Veles. For years have been asking for the dirt roads to be paved which is meant to be planned in the Municipalities budget. They were planned in the annual budget. Instead of 16.800.000 denars for the construction […]
24 December 2015
Today is a day to remember, December the 24th will remain in Macedonia’s history, as the day when Nikola Gruevski’s Government brutally violated the parliamentary democracy of the Republic of Macedonia, said SDSM leader Zoran Zaev in front of Parliament. “They violated the Constitution and the laws. They used the police to protect themselves. They […]
