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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had a brief meeting with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski in New York over the long disputed name issue. Greek newspaper "Real", indicated that the two Prime Ministers had a discussion during a reception hosted by US President Barack Obama in honour of world leaders participating in the General Assembly of the United Nations. Tsipras...

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mitko Chavkov discussed measures and actions taken to prevent and deal with the entry of illegal migrants in the regions affected by the crisis situation and their movement through the territory of the Republic of Macedonia. The meeting concluded that all entities involved in the management of this crisis, with...

  Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighborhood policy and Enlargement Negotiations arrived in Skopje for a two day visit. This morning he met with representatives of non-governmental and civil society and EU Ambassador Orav. He on his Twitter account said "I just arrived in Skopje. First a meeting with civil society, whose engagement is crucial to the reform process. " https://twitter.com/JHahnEU/status/644768415928946688 Commissioner Hahn's...

Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn arrives late this evening in Skopje on a commercial flight. The working visit will officially start tomorrow, at 10.30 am, a meeting with the National Council for European Integration, after which the European Commissioner will have a working lunch with Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. After the meeting with the Prime Minister,...

The EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Johannes Hahn, arrives on Friday in Skopje to re-new accession talks at a high level with the European Union (HLAD). First on his agenda is a meeting scheduled with the National Council for European Integration in the EU , and then he will have a working lunch with Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. The...

President Gjorge Ivanov, today held a meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Macedonian Army (ARM), Commander of Joint Operations Command (JOC), directors and heads of the state bodies in charge of defense, security and intelligence, and the national Coordinator for Combating Terrorism, where they discussed what measures are needed to be taken about the current refugee crisis, but also...

Macedonian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nikola Poposki attended a working breakfast in Luxemburg with diplomats from established EU nations, as well as nations with candidate status, to discuss the current refugee crisis engulfing Europe. Poposki said, " Europe has to come together to resolve this issue, because a country, acting on its own, simply does not have the required...

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...

The representatives of the big political parties will discuss the special public prosecutor who will have authority in investigating the cases "Putsch" and the recorded telephone conversations involving high government officials. The special prosecutor is expected to be elected by September 15 the latest, that is two weeks after the opposition's return to the Sobranie. According to information, the political parties...

The meeting between party representatives has ended. The participants discussed about the special public prosecutor. Belgian facilitator in the talks Peter van Houte attended the meeting. Telma reports that the representatives left the meeting without making any comments, while the Belgian facilitator described the meeting as solid and interesting. - I cannot comment today. The meeting was interesting. There was solid discussion,...

The first meeting of the Action groups following their summer vacation has ended. The representatives of the political parties did not give statements, nor did they comment whether they have made any progress. The supposed topic of today’s talks was the State Elections Commission and the Electoral Law. SDSM sent Cvetanka Ivanova and Damjan Manchevski as their representatives. VMRO-DPMNE has Nikola...

Today will be the last of the rounds of talks between the Action groups towards implementing the Przhino Agreement. The participants will take a vacation until August 17. The Belgian expert Peter van Haute who facilitates the talks, is also going to be absent for a vacation. Yesterday, the Action groups could not agree on anything regarding the special public...

“It was requested from the Macedonian political party and EU representatives that the State Elections Commission (DIK) is completely depoliticized, which means that the parties can not propose, at least publically, their own candidates. We also requested the capacity of the DIK to be strengthened with at least three professionals- experts, who are judges at best. If the...

The meeting of the Action groups from the biggest political parties was over one and half hours after it began. The parties did not give statements following the meeting, except for the DUI representative Artan Grubi who said the meeting was good. During today’s second meeting the topics of discussion were the electoral list and the participation of the Diaspora in...

Today in the afternoon is scheduled another meeting by the Action groups of the four biggest political parties. The representatives are meeting to work towards implementing the Przhino Agreement. The meeting yesterday lasted three hours. Party representatives discussed electoral legislative but none of them officially commented the progress of the negotiations. Only the EU representative who mediated the meeting, Peter van...

The meeting of the Action group of the Przhino Agreement is taking place, after all, in the Parliament Club. The venue has been changed at the last moment. The meeting was scheduled to take place in the offices of OSCE in Skopje. From the OSCE office they say they received a short notice that the meeting will not take place...

There is going to be a new meeting today, between the Action group that includes the signers of the Przhino Agreement, towards clearing from the political crisis in Macedonia. The special facilitator in the Agreemnt, Piter Van Hoyte of Belgium, is expected to attend the meeting. The topics that are going to be discussed at the meeting at election laws,...

The large political parties will send two representatives each in an effort to meet and begin the implementation of the Przhino Agreement. On the first meeting the parties should discuss about election laws, the electoral list and about the State Election Commission. It isn’t yet clear when and where the meeting will be held.

After arriving in Skopje, in a statement for Telma, EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said that he’s coming to Macedonia to help the process of negotiations in order to find a solution that, as he said, would preserve Euro-Atlantic perspective of the country. He appealed to all political leaders to work in the national interest, not for personal interests. - I...

EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Johannes Hahn said that this is a key moment for solving the political crisis in Macedonia. On his Twitter profile, he wrote: "On my way to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Crucial moment for leaders to agree on way out of political crisis." "On my way to former Yugoslav Republic of #Macedonia: #Crucial...