10 August 2016
An expert team from the European Union have begun to assess the damage caused by the freak storm which hit Skopje and the surrounding area on Saturday evening, stated the EU Ambassador to Macedonia, Aivo Orav. The experts were sent to the country after Macedonia enacted the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. Today, EU experts assess […]
8 July 2016
Today, dozens of Civil Organizations and experts presented their “Proposal for Urgent Democratic Reforms”, a document which presents two concise directions for the way key democratic changes should be conducted in the country. The main purpose of the document is to propose measures to implement urgent reforms that will create conditions for free, fair and […]
4 February 2016
Macedonian police officers and their counterparts from several European Union countries and from the region, situated on the southern border, have uncovered 858 migrants who have used false or forged documents to enter the country. This, among other things, announced the Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski at today’s meeting with experts from the police of the […]
23 December 2015
Tomorrow in two newspapers a public invitation will be published for the position of General Secretary of the State Election Commission (SEC). The SEC said at yesterday’s session they adopted the rule book on the manner and procedure for the election of the Secretary General of this highest electoral department. The SEC Chairman Aleksander Chicakovski, who […]
15 December 2015
The leaders of the four largest political parties, VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM, DUI and DPA, today are to meet and discuss the fulfilment of the Przhino Agreement. According to announcements from the parties, leaders are expected to discuss matters that have been stalled, which have come from the Przhino Agreement. The choice of three experts for the […]
11 December 2015
The process for selecting experts to the State Election Commission has become blocked. Names are not just the problem, but the parties all have a different interpretation of what the Przhino Agreement means, say sources at the negotiating process to “Meta”. According to our information, the SDSM finds it unacceptable that experts should be selected with a […]
6 December 2015
The parties are having problems agreeing on the names of the experts who should be part of the chairman at the SEC. “Meta” has learnt that all members – experts that have been discussed, were either close to the government or to the opposition, which contradicts the impartiality of the Commission. From sources close to […]
30 September 2015
Katica Janeva’s selection of prosecutors stirred some skepticism today, and comments from legal experts. According to Professor Gordon Kalajdziev, who was shortlisted for the position of Special Public Prosecution, but was dismissed at the last moment, said there were a few strange things in the choice of the selected prosecutors. “Firstly, it is obvious that […]
4 September 2015
In a statement released by the Basic Court Skopje 1 defending the court’s decision made at the preliminary hearing stage, Judges have complained that they felt pressurized into commenting on the decision reached in the preliminary hearing, by repeated and aggressive media coverage which questioned the Court’s findings. The Judges are dismayed that the same […]
19 August 2015
Foreign experts are working together with the Protection and Rescue Directorate to survey by helicopter the flooded areas in the Tetovo region. The goal is to determine what exactly happened on August 3 and what are the reasons for the overflowing of the rivers and the eroding of the ground that overwhelmed several villages. From […]
29 July 2015
The Action groups of the political parties who are meeting towards implementing the Przhino Agreement are going to function until Friday. Following that day they are going to pause until August 10, finds out Meta. The reason for the pause, according to our information, is that the foreign facilitators in the process are also taking […]
20 March 2015
High Commissioner for Human Rights Council expressed deep concern because of the political impasse in Macedonia and its impact on human rights. Such concerns was expressed in recent days by almost all relevant international organizations, which is a signal that foreigners are seriously interested in the situation in the country. President Gjorgje Ivanov spoke to […]
