Tag: Hungary

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...

In Belgrade's first official response, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski fled to Hungary via Serbia, but before a warrant was issued and sent to Belgrade. He also said that Gruevski was accompanied by two Hungarian nationals from Macedonia to Albania. This is Belgrade's first reaction after Gruevski fled Macedonia to avoid serving a prison sentence,...

The United States of America believes that convicted MP and former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, who is seeking political asylum in Hungary, should serve his jail term at home, said a State Department spokesman for Politico.eu. “After a thorough and transparent legal process, Nikola Gruevski was convicted by Macedonian courts of misuse of office and sentenced to two years in...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has confirmed that former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is in Budapest and that the authorities there are handling his asylum application in accordance with domestic and international law. "Nikola Gruevski has applied for asylum to the relevant Hungarian authorities. The former Macedonian prime minister has announced his intention to claim refugee status in Hungary,"...

The next NATO summitt is unthinkable without the issue of expansion, and we want the EU to set a date in February about starting the negoations with Macedonia, said today the Minister of Foreign PAffairs and Trade of Hungary, Peter Siyarto during the joint press conference with the Head of the Macedonian diplomacy. -Hungary will continue to provide its...

Not only has Viktor Orbán joined the campaign in of the Russian backed former Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, but he also wanted to allow him and the rest of the former leadership, refuge in Hungary, which s entirely against the values of the EU itself, and in Hungary as well, said alarmingly Viktor Szigetvári, Chairman of the...

The control and the transparency in the financing of civil organizations have to be strengthened and all doubts have to rejected and a distinction has to be made between non-government organizations that truly work for the benefit of the people and those that hide behind the NGO curtain. This was stated by the president of the state, Gjorge Ivanov,...

Hungarian Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó this morning came to Macedonia on a state visit, and met with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Poposki, and tonight he too will be a guest at a VMRO-DPMNE election rally. Mr. Szijjártó just like his Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz, who this week took part in a VMRO-DPMNE rally, and then had a bilateral meeting with...

Thousands of migrants in the past day and night, entered Slovenia at night between Friday and Saturday because Hungarian authorities closed their border with Croatia to stop the flow of refugees into their territory. The Refugee agency of the United Nations (UNHCR), stated that from Croatia approximately 4,000 migrants entered Slovenia. Most of them intend to continue their way to...

Macedonian Interior Minister Mitko Chavkov, at today's Conference in Ohrid, dedicated to the migrant crisis. said   "As a country, we have been left alone to deal with a situation that has arisen which is not of our making, and is in fact, caused partly by sharing a border with a Member State of the European Union." Minister Chavkov...

There will be sharper punishment for refugees and migrants who will cross the state border illegaly, says the Hungarian government following their proposal for a law. The government has proposed 13 measures for more efficient dealing with the wave of migrants. The laws include a three year prison sentence for migrants who are caught crossing the Hungarian border. Another law suggests...