4 March 2019
The Supreme Court has decided to call off the house arrest for the suspects in the SPO’s case “Empire” to Orce Kamchev, Cvetan Pandeleski and Nenad Josifovik. The passports belonging to Kamchev, Josifovik, and Pandeleski are held in the Basic Court Skopje 1. The Supreme Court has no authority over their passport. For now, they […]
14 February 2019
During the extraordinary session, the Government decided to declare the 14th and 15th of February to be days of national days of mourning because of the road c accident that happened on the road between Skopje – Tetovo. When the session was over, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced that the number of victims has risen […]
13 February 2019
SDSM’s Executive Board has decided not to call for snap parliamentary elections along with the forthcoming presidential elections, as the opposition demanded. When the session was over yesterday evening, spokesperson Kostadin Kostadinov said that the citizens are requesting to see the results from the economy, the reforms, and the integrations first. “A party to which […]
21 November 2018
Yesterday, EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn responded to Hungary’s decision to grant asylum to Nikola Gruevski, after the former prime minister boasted about it on Facebook. Hahn said that if it were true, he expects a sound explanation from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán regarding the grounds of such a […]
10 October 2018
The government’s spokesperson, Mile Boshnjakovski, at today’s press conference about the decisions from last night’s 93 government session, has repeated the government’s expectations about achieving a two-third majority necessary for the constitutional changes regarding which, the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs will start today the discussion upon the proposal about the need for constitutional changes […]
30 September 2018
The European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn wrote on his Twitter account that the votes “For” at the referendum are significant and that it will provide a support for the Prespa Agreement. “I congratulate those citizens who voted in today’s consultative referendum and made use of their democratic freedoms/ With their […]
13 September 2018
At a scheduled session starting at 9.30 am next week, September 19th, Judges from the Constitutional Court will review initiatives for assessing the constitutionality and legality of the decision for announcing the referendum adopted by Parliament on July 30th this year. Nine constitutional judges are expected to decide whether to initiate a procedure for assessing the […]
22 August 2018
At today’s government session, the proposal to nominate Sasho Tasevski as the new director of the Public Security Bureau was adopted unanimously. This information was shared on the Government’s official Facebook profile by Deputy Foreign Minister Andrej Zernovski, who attended the government session because Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov was unable due to an official visit […]
30 July 2018
MPs from the ruling majority announced that they will submit the initiative for formally announcing the referendum before Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi today at noon. According to information from SDSM’s parliamentary group, MPs have already collected signatures for the initiative to formally announce the referendum. MPs from DUI and BESA have also signed it. After […]
27 June 2018
There will be a start for negotiations with the European Union in June 2019 if Macedonia maintains the reform progress, especially in the area of urgent reform priorities, the Ministers from EU Council decided after a lengthy debate for enlargement, where it was reviewed the recommendations for negotiations for Macedonia and Albania. The Council of […]
10 January 2018
At today’s 48th session, the government has made a decision to lay off the government’s General Secretary, Dragi Rashkovski from his duty as the government’s representative at the Telekom’s Shareholder’s Assembly and it appointed the prime minister’s legal counselor, Tanja Chacharova Ilievska on this position. During the government’s session, it was decided that Ejup Jahjaa […]
21 December 2017
The Special Prosecutor’s Office withdrew their request to freeze VMRO-DPMNE’s assets and property in the “Thaler” case because they did not want to influence the political situation in the country, said today Chief Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva. “We decided that we should take a different approach in that case because we do not want to […]
1 December 2017
The Supreme court has made a decision where the defendants in the Monster case, which received life in prison sentences, were released from imprisonment. The accused Agim Ismailovikj, Fejzi Aziri, Haki Aziri and Sami Ljuta were ordered other measures of precaution i.e. ban of leaving their residence and to report at least twice a week […]
1 December 2017
On Thursday, at a plenary session, Parliament decided to approve the request from the Skopje Basic Court to revoke the immunity and to detain MPs Krsto Mukovski, Ljuben Arnaudov, Johan Tarculovski, Sašo Vasilevski, Ljupco Dimovski and Žaklina Peshevska, due to their participation in the violence that occurred on April 27th, this year, in Parliament. Every MP […]
30 November 2017
The Committee on Procedural, Mandate and Immunity Related Issues, with five votes “for” and without abstention or votes “against”, approved the request from the court and came to the decision to propose to Parliament that the immunity be revoked from MPs Sašo Vasilevski, Ljuben Arnaudov, Krsto Mukoski , Johan Tarchulovski, Ljupco Dimovski and Žaklina Peshevska. […]
29 November 2017
Basic Court Skopje 1 issued a press release which informs that on request of Basic Public Prosecution for Organized Crime and Corruption (OJO), the judge has ordered a 30-day detention for 13 persons, while 6 people were placed under a house arrest. The Preliminary Proceedings Judge has accepted the motion and has ordered a 30-day […]
27 November 2017
The Holy Bishop’s Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric (MOC-OA) expressed gratitude to the Bulgarian patriarch Neofit and to the members of the Holy Bishop’s Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, who today came to the decision to accept to be the mother church of the MOC. “The adopted decision of the […]
27 November 2017
The Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church – the Bulgarian Patriarchate accepted the request to be the mother church of the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOA) and to represent it in front of the local Orthodox churches. The Synod of Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC) at today’s sitting reviewed the letter from the Archbishop of MOC-OA, HH. […]
3 November 2017
In protest of the decision made by the Skopje Criminal Court for the sentences in the “Divo Naselje” case, Macedonian flags were burned publicly in the Kosovo towns of Gnjilane and Peć, according to Serbian media. “Due to the injustice done against our heroes from the Slavic puppet state, tonight we burned their flag, here […]
27 September 2017
At today’s session, the Constitutional Court didn’t make a decision about the constitutionality and the legality of Article 175 of the Law of Electronic Communications that will allow the Administration for Security and counter-intelligence (UBK) directly to wiretap through the telecommunication operators. The Constitutional Court has confirmed for Meta agency that the decision about this […]
