2 October 2017
Companies detected 60 problems in the application of certain laws, and frequent amendments to the regulations in the past few years created problems for them, said Jadranka Arizankovska, senior advisor at the Economic Chamber of Macedonia. The Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with other chambers and with the assistance of USAID, are implementing a project […]
28 June 2017
The Special Prosecutor’s Office announced a press conference tomorrow at 12 o’clock without specifying what actually it is going to be about. However, given that the SPO’s deadline for submitting charges expires in two days, it is expected that the prosecution at tomorrow’s press conference will announce which of theor open investigations will they file […]
22 June 2017
The parliamentary majority has informed the coordinators of the parliamentary political parties that it is necessary for a political agreement about the laws concerning SPO to be reached, informs the coordinator of SDSM’s MPs, Tomislav Tuntev, who said that the laws shall enter into a procedure next week. -Even last year when we were an […]
3 May 2017
Talat Xhaferi came into office as Parliament Speaker by brutally violating the Constitution, the laws and the Rules and Regulations of Parliament and everything in the future that he will participate in, and everything with his signature will be the result of a dictatorial act by appointing him Speaker of Parliament”, wrote today on Facebook […]
28 April 2017
The Minister of Interior, Agim Nuhiu, condemned the incidents at Parliament and said that certain parts of the ministry’s structures did not do their jobs properly and they will be held responsible. He said that as minister, he had insisted on the creation of the operational headquarters since the protests started, and it included some […]
19 April 2017
The Republic of Macedonia must continue with the democratic processes. This was stated at today’s meeting between the leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev and the ambassadors of Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands in the country, Christine Althauser, Charles Garrett, Mats Staffansson and Wouter Plomp. “The parliamentary majority of 67 MPs is ready to […]
27 December 2016
In the period of time after the new composition of Parliament, and after the deadline which expires on December 31, there will be a new reality for the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) and for the most important courts in the country – the Supreme Court, the Criminal and Constitutional Court, who left difficult issues to […]
22 November 2016
The telecommunications operator ”Macedonian Telecom” has announced today that it has timely replied to all of the demands made by the Special Public Persecutor and that the operator remains open to further cooperation with the authorities. “We responsibly claim that we provided answers to all of the SPP’s demands and we remain open to a […]
8 November 2016
There is no clear distinction between political parties and the state, the state system is being abused and political discrimination is frequent. Because of this, several laws have been violated. This was the conclusion made at the conference “Separating the State from the Political Parties”, organized by the citizen’s association “Most” Constitutional Court Judge Natasha Gaber- Damjanovska […]
17 October 2016
At tomorrow’s session, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia should dissolve if early parliamentary elections are to be held on December 11. The initiative to dissolve Parliament was filed by SDSM, the ruling VMRO-DPMNE only accepted on the condition that the budget for 2017 is adopted. On the official website for Parliament, tomorrow’s 125th […]
10 October 2016
Once Parliament officially scheduled a plenary session for Thursday (October 13), it became clear that MPs and Parliament would not dissolve on Wednesday (October 12). As reported by “Meta”, the first reason is that the parliamentary debate on the budget for 2017 is still not finished. The document is still under review by parliamentary committees, […]
4 October 2016
The US Embassy to Macedonia is encouraging all political parties to abide by their commitments under the Pržino Agreement and the Agreement from July 20, and according to the Embassy, that includes the support of the work by the Special Public Prosecution. This was the reaction from the US Embassy after MPs from ruling majority […]
4 October 2016
The Special Public Prosecution plays a key role in this process, it needs constant support from all parties, reacted the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands after Parliament did not approve amendments requested by the SPO in the laws on Witness Protection and the SPO they did not receive support from the ruling majority. “The […]
4 October 2016
Without amendments to the Law on Witness Protection, it makes the work of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office difficult, said the SPO, after today’s session of Parliament where the ruling majority did not support the proposed amendments to the SPO (for extending the time for investigations) and the Law on Witness Protection. “Without adopting changes […]
28 July 2016
Parliament Speaker, Trajko Veljanoski has scheduled a session today at 14:30 where MPs will have to vote to pass the laws that the representatives of the four main political parties, signatories to the Pržino Agreement reached last week. On today’s agenda is the draft-law for amendments to the Law on Internal Affairs, the draft-law for […]
22 July 2016
Today the SDSM will have to return to their parliamentary seats and start implementing the agreement political parties reached on Wednesday. Recently they had frozen their participation in Parliament as a sign of their dissatisfaction of the Constitutional Courts reluctance to rule on the legality of the Special Public Prosecutions Office. Changes to the Electoral […]
6 July 2016
With amendments to the Law on Internal Affairs, which proposes the State Secretary in the Ministry of Interior to be appointed by the Government, and with the already adopted amendments to the Law on Policing, the government wants to tie the hands of the new Minister, who would be the Head of the Interior Ministry […]
20 May 2016
President Gjorgi Ivanov has already received and signed off on the laws which MPs approved in yesterday’s session in Parliament. The laws will be enforced as soon as they are published in the Official Gazette. MPs at yesterday’s session voted on the Law on Pardons (“partial pardons”), the Law on Privacy (“Bombs” can not be […]
6 April 2016
At midnight today, the President of Parliament Trajko Veljannoski should be discussing the dissolution of Parliament, allowing the required 60 days before elections, as provided for by the Electoral Code. In July, the leaders of the four main political parties, all agreed at Przino, that the political opposition would return to their seats in Parliament, […]
10 November 2015
MPs in the plenary session voted in laws, which political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement agreed upon on Friday. MPa voted in a shortened procedure for amendments to the Electoral Code, to the Criminal Procedure Code, the Law on Privacy, the Law to protect “Whistle-blowers” and the Law on Government. The biggest debate took […]
