Tag: Government

The Law on Languages ​​promotes the rights of all minority communities and does not foresee new employment. The Macedonian language with the Cyrillic alphabet remains the only official language throughout the whole territory of the Republic of Macedonia and its international relations, said the Government in today's statement regarding fake news and untruths about the application of the Law on the Use of...

The proposed amendments to the Law on Public Enterprise, among other things, foresees public enterprises to appoint deputy directors instead of as before, in the absence of directors, to appoint them with certain employees already employed within the enterprise. The Foundation Open Society - Macedonia, the Societas Civilis Institute for Democracy, the Center for Change Management (CMC) and the Center for Civil...

The Ministry of Information Society and Administration today launched a new national open data portal where 111 data sets have been published, from 42 institutions, all part of the public administration reform. According to the Minister of Information Society Damjan Mancevski, some of the data available on the portal have been published for the first time; some have already been published,...

Yesterday's unanimous decision to adopt an Amnesty Law for the violent events that took place in Parliament on 27th of April, voted in by 95 MPs both from the ruling party and opposition, caused an avalanche of reactions from the Macedonian public. The main issue here is whether politicians using the amnesty as a mechanism are undermining the legal system in...

Today, Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev after three laws were passed in the Kosovo parliament that envisages the transformation of the Kosovo Security Forces into Kosovo's Army, said that at this moment the region does not need any new tension. -I know that NATO's position is the same as ours: Now is not the time! We do not need any...

At yesterday's 108th session, the Government adopted the final texts of the amendments to the Constitution and immediately passed them on to Parliament. Amendment 33 reads as follows: "In the Constitution, the words" Republic of Macedonia " will be replaced by the words "Republic of North Macedonia ", and the word "Macedonia" shall be replaced with the words "North Macedonia", except...

Ministers from yesterday's government session have accepted the information on the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway represented by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway for Serbia and Montenegro, for the...

The government has announced that starting from today, it will begin organizing a series of public discussions both with experts and the general public about the draft-amendments about the changes in the Constitution. The first public discussion will take place today with a start at 16h at the government's hall. the attendees will be addressed by Prime Minister Zoran...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev took part in the Summit of Heads of Government from member states of the Central European Initiative in Zagreb. He assessed the event as a good opportunity for Macedonia to reiterate its expectations of support from friendly countries, for membership of our country in NATO and the start of negotiations with the EU. "We have requested the support...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has offered the leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party of Serbia, Cedomir Jovanovic, as an adviser in his government, reports Belgrade-based Blic today. Referring to anonymous sources, the newspaper states that Jovanovic was offered the position of adviser for regional relations and European integration. Blic reports that the LDP leader who enjoys good relations in the...

After the government's decision to provide a loan in the amount of €1.5 million for the Jugohrom plant in Jegunovce, during a visit to the factory, Vice Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Kocho Angjushev stated that the company can be profitable and workers can see their existence in Jugohrom. "By granting the loan, an agreement for restarting Jugohrom was reached....

Nikola Gruevski was convicted in a public and transparent process, and at the same time there are several procedures against him, said the government as a reaction to the Facebook status published by the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski who revealed that he was granted an asylum in Hungary. "The offender Nikola Gruevski was under a police protection in accordance...

At its 100th session, on the proposal of the Ministry of Finance, the Government reviewed and adopted the amendments to the budget re-balance for 2018 which was proposed at a commission hearing in Parliament. "The eight amendments from the Government session were accepted as an addition to the proposal for amendments to the budget for 2018, and the new, integral...

The government has proposed that the state of emergency on the southern and northern border be extended until June 30, 2019, in order to prevent the entry and transit of migrants on the territory of Macedonia. The draft decision on amending the original decision for the approval of the extension of the deadline for the existence of a state of...

The prime minister and the ministers have cut down government expenditures by more than 65% during the second 6 months compared to the first 6 months, shows the upgraded tool for transparency at the government's webpage. "The government's transparency is giving saving results and responsible spending. There are savings for all sorts of costs especially catering services where the...

Russian news agency "Sputnik News", formerly known as "RIA Novosti" and "Voice of Russia", has already renamed the Republic of Macedonia to North Macedonia. Under the headline "Greece, N. Macedonia have "started talking" despite "identity conflict", the Russian agency that is part of the government's media consortium "Rossiya Segodnya", published an interview with Professor Neophytos Loizides from the University of Kent,...

The Minister in charge of Communications, Accountability, and Transparency, Robert Popovski, and the government's spokesperson, Mile Boshnjakovski, held a working meeting with AJN's president, Naser Slemani, the President of the Council of Media Ethics' Managing Board, Katerina Sinadinovska and the President of the Trade Union of Macedonian Journalists, Tamara Chausidis, as representatives of the three media organizations that are...

Yesterday, the Government, at its 93rd session, adopted the Information on Elements of NATO Accession Negotiations, which will begin on October 18 and 19 at Alliance headquarters in Brussels. The Information on the Establishment of a Working Committee for NATO Integration, which will lead the accession talks, was also adopted. The Ministers also adopted the Information on the preparation of...

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 submitted by the government....

At yesterday's 92nd session, the Government made a decision on the constitutional changes, that is, to submit amendments to Parliament for which it will seek support. This is happening at a time when the grounds for amending the Constitution is not certain, because it requires a two-thirds majority in Parliament, that is, 80 MPs. "The Government of the Republic of...