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At today's Ministerial Council between the member countries of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Macedonian Foreign Minister, Nikola Poposki, stressed that terrorism, violent extremism, radicalization and the migrant crisis poses serious security challenges in the OSCE region. “Macedonia is an active partner in the international anti-terrorist coalition and will continue to contribute to efforts to combat...

The current situation in Macedonia is worrying! This is what the German Minister of State told the German Bundestag, which is the Committee for Foreign Affairs, reported “Sakam da kazam”. The portal reports that the spokesperson, Thorsten Frei, a member of the Committee and MP from the CDU/CSU in the Bundestag, brought some relief with the news that all pardons...

Ways out of the political crisis were the main topic of discussion at the meeting between the SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, and the special envoy sent to Macedonia by the Federal German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Ambassador Johannes Haindl. At the meeting , they noted that the solution to the political crisis is in the implementation of commitments under the...

The special envoy sent from Germany, Johannes Haindl to help with the political crisis will be visiting Macedonia on Tuesday. He will be meeting the leaders of the main political parties, and signatories to the Przhino Agreement. This will be Haindl’s third visit to Macedonia in the last month or so. During his last visit, on May 19, he asked the parties...

Berlin is “extremely concerned about the internal political situation in Macedonian”, said the German Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth from Brussels. He stressed that the country needs to meet two requirements urgently, firstly, to create conditions for democratic and free elections, and to fully support the Special Prosecutor’s Office. “The political parties should not test the patience of...

President Gjorge Ivanov and the special envoy sent from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Johannes Haindl, at today's meeting discussed the current political developments and exchanged views on "opportunities and ways to overcome the challenges of the political scene in the country," said a statement from Ivanov's cabinet about the meeting. "Both agreed that is necessary that the...

The German Foreign Office today repeated their concern over the political crisis in Macedonia and said that those were the reasons a Special Representative was appointed to Macedonia, which will help in overcoming the crisis. “The internal political situation in FYR Macedonia concerns us greatly. A way out for this serious crisis is not even in sight, it is worrying....

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has appointed a special envoy to Macedonia, which should mediate in resolving the political crisis. The German  Foreign Office announced this on their official Twitter account this afternoon. The special envoy, according to the announcement, will be working in coordination with representatives of the European Union and the United States in the country to mediate...

I hope that the political parties in Macedonia understand that the growing instability will make the country’s path towards the European Union and NATO very difficult, said from the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. That was Steinmeier’s message to the political parties in the country, to those who are signatories of the Przhino Agreement - a way out of the...

Germany and Austria, in cooperation with the Macedonian and Greek government are developing a plan to close the Macedonian-Greek border for refugees, says the agency "Sputnik", reporting its information from the German newspaper "Bild". According to the German newspaper, experts from Vienna, Brussels and Berlin want to close the border and equip the area with a surveillance system. At the...

"The Special Commissioner for the Western Balkans, Turkey and the EFTA countries, Dr. Ernst Rajhel on the 28th of October 2015 invited the Macedonian Ambassador in Berlin, Saso Markovski for a discussion at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, to express his disappointment and concerns about the Federal Government's implementation of the Przhino Agreement, which is still insufficient”, announced the...

German authorities have reported that as much as a third of those who have applied for asylum in this country, lied about being from Syria. Since the beginning of the year hundreds of thousands of refugees have arrived in Germany from Africa and the Middle East in search of shelter. Berlin stressed that now, at the current time they would give...

The Foreign Ministry of Germany gives a short-term funding of 1 million euro for humanitarian purposes and for helping decrease the severe situation of refugees transiting through Western Balkan countries. -We can’t sit with crossed hands while in countries that are EU neighbors are refugees in critical condition, seeking protection. It is important that we support the governments in their...

In a hall with around forty knitting and embroidery machines, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski announced the start of production in the German factory Technical Textiles. In front of the hall of 13,000 square meters were parked construction machines that waited for the ceremony to be over, because the yard only has sand, while the freshly-paved road was covered by a...

The main topic this morning in Germany is Greek Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis, who showed his middle finger to the Germans during the festival "Subverzive" in Zagreb. Yesterday evening, Varoufakis had his first appearance on a German TV in the popular show of the host Guenther Jauh on "ARD." The climax of the show was when Jauh released footage of...

French and German diplomats are actively preparing summit in Minsk with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, hoping to end the bloody conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Diplomats from France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia today in Berlin are working on a peace plan, which is presented as the last chance for Ukraine before the summit in Minsk on Wednesday. Preparations for the...

German Foreign Ministry believes that the prosecution of opposition leader Zoran Zaev challenges the functioning of the democratic opposition, reports "Vest". "The federal government is very concerned about the prosecution of the Macedonian opposition leader Zoran Zaev and three others over an alleged coup attempt. Thus, the functioning of the democratic opposition is challenged. We call the Macedonian authorities to investigate...