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The Municipality of Ohrid have passed the budget into a tense atmosphere

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 cover the old debts. “With this...

Skopje: Extravagant Projects for Cheap Political Gain

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 much of our money was...

Veles: Ten villages cut-off from civilization and the budget

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 and reconstruction of the roads...

Zaev: This is the last 24th of December for Nikola Gruevski and his Government

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 threw out journalists and MPs...

Bitola: Dark Suburb Instead of Golden Hill

How were 2.5 million euros from the local governments budget re-transferred to be spent on other projects, different to what citizens were told. At the old Army barracks there are “new” buildings being built. The funds from the investors went to the municipality’s budget but the new tenants live in a ghetto without running water, sewage, roads or street lights. The city...

Vasilevo: Four Years for Four Kilometers

The local road from Chanaklija – Nova Maala is still not done yet. Every year the road is in the plans of the local government’s budget. The local citizens never found out where the money disappears to every year. - Its my money, that's why it hurts more - says one of the citizens who wants to know where his money...

Prilep: No Food and No Care for 128 Retirees (Video)

The Nursing home for Prilep`s 128 retirees is financed from the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, and with some personal income from the retirees. The Nursing Home`s bank account has been frozen due to debt, and now 128 retirees are without appropriate heating, food or care. There have been some personnel replacements due to the accusations of possible fraud in...

Zaev: Gruevski admits complete defeat on all his economic policies

Nikola Gruevski has officially admitted complete defeat of all his policies in the last ten years. His wasteful and improper policies without economic concept or vision of the country's development, has left the state having to borrow money to provide salaries, pensions and welfare assistance, said SDSM leader Zoran Zaev at a press conference, making great accusations about the...

Parliament votes in Budget for 2016

With 66 votes "For" and 28 votes "Against" members of Parliament before midnight, passed the budget for 2016. It is thus the largest budget so far, which weighs in at 3.2 billion euros. The opposition voted against, because during the five-day discussion on several occasions they stressed that this budget is wasteful, uneconomically, fanciful, undeveloped and not opaque. The budget,...

Minister Staverski justifies the draft budget for 2016 before MPs

Minister for Finance Zoran Stavreski, justified the draft budget for 2016 before members of Parliament today. He expects that next year the political atmosphere will have a higher degree of political stability, which will create a better climate for the economy, and for the realization of investments for citizens to bring better consumer decisions. Minister Stavreski, explained to the MPs...

From today MRT will no longer broadcast advertisements from the Government

“Macedonian Radio Television” will stops broadcasting Government advertisements and campaigns financed from the budget of the Republic of Macedonia, "Meta" has learned. According to our sources, the employees of MRT an hour ago received orders not to broadcast government advertisements in the time intervals which had already been provided for them. The decision reached by MTV statement of the Agency for...

The debate on the budget in Parliament scheduled for November 16

The dispute over the budget has been scheduled for November the 16th at 12:00 pm. “The Government submitted the revised draft budget for 2016 to Parliament. The Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski scheduled another plenary session on November the 16th at 12:00 pm” announced the Cabinet of the President of Parliament.

MP’s without debate approves Janeva’s budget

Today at the plenary session, MPs approved the budget totaling approximately one million euros, which the Special Prosecutor, Katica Janeva needs to start working. The Minister of Finance, Zoran Stavrevski, who is overseeing the proposal, although was present at the meeting, gave no explanation, nor any of the messengers apply for word. Although the funds were approved, it is still...

Janeva’s budget passes smoothly through the Parliamentary Committees

  The Parliamentary Committee for Finance and Budgeting without much dispute and after only a few minutes, the law was passed and put into further action proposed budget for the work of the Special Prosecutor, Katica Janeva. The draft budget was the only item on the agenda for the 66th session of the committee explained the Minister of Finance, Zoran Stavreski. This...

The Mayor of Struga accuses the Government of restricting the council budget

The Mayor of Struga, Zijadin Sela accused the central government that they have restricted the council budget by only funding them at the level of 16 million denars. Planned projects within the action plans for education, social protection, youth and cooperation with civil society organizations, can now not be implemented. “The money that will be collected from the citizens of Struga,...

SDSM: Taxpayers money for expensive quay will end up in someone’s pocket

Jovan Stojanoski the coordinator of the advisory group for SDSM in Ohrid, reported that at the meeting with the council of the Multiplicity of Ohrid was a non-transparent affair, where VMRO-DPMNE voiced a "wasteful budget revision". "From the 67 million increase in the budget, instead of investing the capital into development, an estimated 36 million of taxpayers money will be...

More than 200 amendments in the Parliament’s budget rebalancing meeting

The Parliament's Commission for Financing and Budget convened today to hold the third series of amendment talks for the rebalancing of the budget. There had been more than 200 amendments from the group of DPA and from the independent MP Roza Topuzova-Karevska.

The National Assembly will discuss the budget rebalance

The new budget figures for 2015 that the Government adopted this Friday will be topic of discussion in the National Assembly. The discussion will be underway without the opposition in their seats, during the session of the Commission for Budget and Financing. The Judicial Commission will also convene around the same topic. The unfortunate event of December 24, 2013...

Most of the budget is spent on pensions and health services

The report on the supplementary budget states that the largest share in the structure of current expenditures (87.6 billion denars) from the budget for the period from January to June this year were transfers for which at this time 56.7 billion denars were disbursed. - Government liabilities based on the fulfillment of the rights to guaranteed social protection are regularly...