Tag: Hungary

This story was published by the Hungarian investigative journalism non-profit, Atlatszo. An edited version was published as part of a partnership with Global Voices. Tamás Bodoky, editor-in-chief of Atlatszo, told Media1 that he believes there is a coordinated campaign to attack the investigative nonprofit from actors close to Hungary's ruling party Fidesz, mirroring the autocratic methods used in Putin’s Russia.   Reminiscent...

"This decision by the EU's executive body to take Hungary to court over the alleged breach in EU telecoms rules regarding Klubrádió's frequency licence is a belated but important signal that the Commission is increasingly willing to use the tools available to it to defend independent media, freedom of expression and media pluralism where they are most threatened." This statement...

Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani greeted the delegation led by the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Szijarto, who brought a donation of 6,000 doses of vaccines against coronavirus, as an act of friendship on part of the Government of Hungary, informed the Foreign Affairs Ministry of North Macedonia.

U julu 2019., makedonski društveni mediji su bili preplavljeni linkovima na članke od pre godinu dana u kojima se tvrdi da su premijeri Severne Makedonije i Grčke, Zoran Zaev i Aleksis Cipras svaki primili milijarde evra mita da bi potpisali Prespanski dogovor. Prespanski dogovor je postignut u junu 2018. godine, i okončao je 27-ogodišnji spor između dva suseda. Makedonija je...

During July 2019 a new trend for spreading disinformation affected the online sphere in North Macedonia. Possibly to compensate for lack of coverage of political events that can be misconstrued during the vacation season, social media were flooded with links to old articles promoted through Facebook ads and right-wing Facebook groups. Some of these articles were originally published within the...

The opposition party VMRO-DPMNE informs that the president of the party Hristijan Mickoski tomorrow will have a meeting with the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban. However, the party did not say whether Mickoski will meet with the Honorary president of the party, Nikola Gruevski, who as a fugitive from justice has asylum in Hungary. In the short announcement from...

Writing about the request of the Macedonian prosecution about the security footage of the ex-Prime Minister Gruevski's escape through the Albanian border, Albanian news site "BalkanWeb" in an article titled "Albania sends footage of Gruevski's escape", claims that the footage has already been downloaded from the system and, in accordance with the request from the Macedonian authorities, shall be sent to Skopje. The...

The Immigration and statehood service is an independent state organ and the Hungarian government cannot influence its decisions. The former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has passed the asylum procedure and the Immigration service has decided to issue a positive decision, said Peter Szijjártó, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the interview he gave for the Bulgarian national broadcasting...

Daniel Nolan, the British Guardian's correspondent from Budapest, yesterday, on his Twitter profile has published a photograph of the rogue former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in Budapest. Gruevski was photographed by Nolan in the center of Budapest, as he was walking towards a desk for bus city tours for tourists "Hop On - Hop Off". The photograph was taken...

The EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn before the start of the EU's Foreign Affairs Council this morning said that he doesn't believe that Nikola Gruevski will be extradited from Hungary to Macedonia. When asked whether he supports the amendments of the European Parliament in the report about Macedonia with which it is requested that Hungary should extradite Gruevski into Macedonia,...

A total of 14 civil organizations, including the Foundation Open Society - Macedonia, the Metamorphosis Foundation and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia, today issued a second response to the government, setting a deadline of 10 days to determine accountability for former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's escape. Otherwise, say the civil sector, political accountability...

Today, European Parliament urged Hungary to extradite exiled former Prime Minister and convicted criminal Nikola Gruevski on the grounds of amendments to the Resolution on Macedonia, even though they have no legal effect, but rather an ethical-moral attitude, it is still an unpopular measure for Hungary, says university professor and FON rector, Nano Ružin. "Action, from a legal point of view,...

During the vote for the resolution for Macedonia, the European Parliament  has passed two amendments with which it demand that Hungary should extradite former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to Macedonia, reports MIA. The Social democrats and the Green party's groups have lodged separate amendments related to this issue, but it was feared that one lodged by the Green party will...

George Soros' organization is behind the persecution of former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview with Radio Koshut. According to Orbán, it is only normal for Budapest to help the former Macedonian prime minister because he too has helped Hungary defend itself against a surge of migrants. "This is a former leader...

The European Commission shares the opinion and position of EU Commissioner for Enlargement Negotiations and Neighbourhood Policy Johannes Hahn, that the decision to grant Nikola Gruevski asylum deserves further explanation from Hungarian authorities. "There is no escape from the rule of law," said EC spokesman Margaritis Shinas. He said the decision to grant asylum to Gruevski was a judge's decision and that...

Former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski had to cross three borders to reach Hungary and did so in full compliance with the regulations in all three cases, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Budapest today. He also said his ministry was in no way connected to the case, bearing in mind that the body that...

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 decision. "I take notes of...

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...

Transparency International through its branches in Macedonia and Hungary has called upon the Hungarian authorities to extradite Gruevski from Hungary where he is requesting an asylum in an effort to avoid the imprisonment after he was convicted for corruption. -This situation is a big test for the Macedonian and Hungarian authorities and it should be solved in accordance with...

The foreign ministry sent a "protest note" to Hungary after convicted former prime minister Nikola Gruevski fled to Budapest and claimed asylum. Hungarian ambassador Laszlo Duks was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet with State Secretary Viktor Dimovski. "The purpose of the meeting was to hand over a protest note from Macedonia to the Hungarian side, on the...