Tag: experts

For all cases where there are certain doubts of irregularities, that is, cases which are not fully clarified, the Government will bring in international experts from certain areas for their elaboration, said Minister of Justice, Bilen Saliji, while answering a journalist's question on the requests for an international expert group to investigate the "Divo Naselje" case. “The Ministry of Justice,...

The government will set up an inter-ministerial working group that will need to prepare a solution to reform the system for the interception of communications, based on the recommendations by the Reinhard Priebe expert group, which will provide protection of citizens' rights and protection against abuse of wiretapping. The need for forming this working group was adopted at yesterday's Government...

It is important to find an agreed solution on name issue and to find a way how to go onward. The EU stands ready to help the UN-process and to facilitate contacts if requested, said the EU Commissioner, Johannes Hahn. In an interview for European Western Balkans before the summit of the Western Balkans leaders that will take place...

Currently, there has been no official initiative to hold an emergency session of Parliament, which is on a collective vacation, and the first scheduled session will be on the 24th of this month. No-one from the Office of Public Affairs is available on the phone. The Parliamentary Group, the SDSM say that so far they have not received any invitation for...

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. https://twitter.com/AmbassadorEU/status/763000063480193024 Despite assessing the damage, the team also has to make...

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 credible elections. The initiators say that...

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 Visegrad Group (Slovakia, Czech Republic,...

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 has a Masters in Law and...

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 State Election Commission and media reforms...

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 party blessing. Sources from SDSM...

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 the negotiators we learned that...

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 they were politically selected because they...

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 media did not give...

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 the Directorate they say they...

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 their summer vacation. Today’s team from...

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 Jess Bailey, Ambassador of...