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EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Johannes Hahn, along with MEPs Eduard Kukan, Ivo Vajgl and Richard Howitt, will today try to move the negotiations from deadlock and find the ultimate solution to the political crisis. During the visit, Hahn and the MEP three, as announced by the European Commission, will have separate meetings with leaders of political parties...

Assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland today, after the meeting with Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, voiced hope that the political crisis in the country will be soon resolved. - It is time to end the crisis. We, the United States, are very pleased to work with the EU. Ambassador Bailey is working together with EU Commissioner Hahn to bring...

Assistant US Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland today in Skopje will have separate meetings with the political leaders and Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. Nuland’s visit comes after opposition leader Zoran Zaev said negotiations conducted under the mediation of the EU and the US failed. Opposition leader accused Gruevski for avoiding negotiations. Nuland’s meeting with Gruevski and...

Through it media controls and expensive marketing campaigns, Macedonian Government spreads and strengthens the idea that the Macedonians are disappearing and are under attack, writes Ana Milovanovik-Fazliu, daughter of former US Ambassador to Macedonia Jillian Milovanovik. In an article published on the website "Alliance for Peacebuilding", apart from giving a history of the Macedonian state and the Macedonian-Albanian relations, Milovanovik-Fazliu...

Former High Representative of the European Union in Kosovo Pieter Feith on Friday was a guest at a Dutch radio to answer questions about the political crisis in Macedonia. In 2001, Feith was a mediator sent by NATO to negotiate with NLA. In the interview, Feith assessed that the recordings published by the opposition indicate serious abuse and crime by...

In the following days, Macedonia will be present on the European agenda. With the expected conclusion that should be adopted tomorrow by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Prime Minister's participation on a meeting of the European Commission regarding transport policy in the region and the third round of negotiations between the government and opposition in the European Parliament,...

The second round of negotiations between the ruling VMRO-DPMNE and the opposition SDSM in Brussels is over. After the meeting, only a brief statement of the European mediator MEP Edward Kukan was announced, which only confirmed that a third round will be held. There were no other public statements. It is not known what it was discussed, nor if some...

Official Sofia is concerned about the destabilization of the political situation in Macedonia, assessed the head of the Bulgarian diplomacy Daniel Mitov at the closed session of the Foreign Affairs Committee. - We are particularly concerned about the developments and destabilization of the internal political situation. We hope that it is possible to achieve a dialogue between the opposition and...

EU officials are accusing the government of Nikola Gruevski "that it is leading the country to disaster" and urge the government and opposition to sit down at the negotiating table and to prevent such a scenario, reports "EurActiv", website which focuses on the policies of the European Union. As "EurActiv" stated, diplomats feel that political parties in Macedonia are unlikely...

World media reported in short yesterday's press conference of the SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, announcing the same information of the news agency "Associated Press" (AP). In the news of AP titled "Director of the Macedonian intelligence accused for taking bribes for a deal with Israel," it is only mentined that Zaev yesterday published recordings showing how the director of intelligence...

Today's construction of the fourth suspect in the scandal "Puch" Zoran Zaev confirms the suspicions that the main objective of the agents’ network and others involved in the case, is the destruction of the institutions and the security system of the Republic of Macedonia, reads the statement from the Ministry of Interior after the press conference of SDSM leader. MOI...

Senior NATO and EU member states representatives were tapped during their visit to Macedonia, said the leader Zoran Zaev for the Bulgarian news agency "Focus". The recorded conversations owned by Zaev include former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during his visit to Skopje, 22nd of May 2014, and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who was in Macedonia on 17th...

Opposition leader Zoran Zaev published the thirteenth "bomb" at today’s press conference at the headquarters of SDSM. He presented recordings of the conversations between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakieski on one topic - Parcel on Vodno for which the Prime Minister is interested in great detail: Is it behind the line or below...

Vice president of SDSM Radmila Shekerinska, during her appearance in "Channel 77" in the show "Stadion," said that one of the proofs who bugged was that there is not a single conversation from the mobile phones of the Prime Minister and the Director of UBK Sasho Mijalkov. According to Shekerinska, it is clear that the wiretapping was done to keep...

Zoran Zaev and SDSM turned our country into a vulgar reality show, which entertained foreign onlookers and profiteers from abroad. This is how VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski the image for Macedonia before Bitola after the mass tapping scandal in the country which was unveiled by SDSM. Gruevski wonders if wiretapping was ordered four years ago, why he is revealing it...

Representatives of the European Union, OSCE, NATO and the United States appealed to the Macedonian President Gjorgje Ivanov to get seriously involved in resolving the political crisis in the country and not to be a spectator to the events, reports Bulgarian portal "Novinite". According to diplomats, as noted by the portal, Ivanov could be the patron of political dialogue and...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights today expressed deep concern over the political impasse in which Macedonia is trapped and its impact on human rights. Spokeswoman of the Commissioner Cécile Pouilly today in Geneva said that the High Commissioner was "particularly disturbed" by the content of the recently released recorded conversations that incriminate senior representatives for a number of human...