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Reaction of the EU Office: We remain ready to help

"We are familiar with messages from the press conference of the opposition leader Zoran Zaev and remain ready to help," reads the initial reaction of EU Office in Skopje to Zaev’s press conference. At today’s press conference, Zaev said that negotiations are unsuccessful and that Gruevski did not respect the agreement of 2nd of June. The leader of the SDSM...

Kocijanchik: EC still recognizes the agreement of 2nd of June, Brussels urgently requires agreement

Asked for reaction on the press - conference of Zoran Zaev in which he announced that negotiations are unsuccessful, the European Commission, through its spokeswoman Maja Kocijanchik, stated for META: "Our position is quite clear: we urgent call on the parties to find a compromise in the interest of the country and the citizens. Agreement of 2nd of June offers...

Gruevski: There will be a leadership meeting when conditions are created

There will be a new leadership meeting will have a meeting when the conditions for it are created, i.e. when there would be a need, announced Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski after marking the beginning of works on reconstruction of 15 streets in the Municipality of Gjorche Petrov. - There is a discussion, communication, and talks are held and in order...

Gruevski’s word for a new leadership meeting is awaited

It still unknown if today or when the leaders of VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM, DUI and DPA will meet. From unofficial sources we learned that it is currently expected Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to rule on the latest proposal that the opposition has put on the table. Sources inform that before he decides if there would be a meeting or not, Gruevski will...

Thaci: We are also discussing the solution of the name issue simultaneously with the negotiations out of the crisis

After today’s meeting with US Congressman Eliot Angel and US Ambassador Jess Bailey, DPA leader Menduh Thaci stated that the name dispute is part of the negotiations of the leading quartet attended by Bailey and EU Ambassador Aivo Orav, reports "Telma". Thaci gave no further details, but said part of the package on the table is the name dispute, and...

There will be no leadership meeting today

After the meeting with US Congressman Eliot Angel, held at the Assembly, when asked, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti said that today there would be no leadership meeting. The last meeting between the leaders of the four main parties, VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM, DUI and DPA, was held on 29th of June. At that meeting, the Prime Minister presented an action plan to implement...

Zaev: I do not recognize the court, they can arrest me immediately

At today’s press conference, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev stated that he won’t respect the decision of the court on case "Putsch". He said he would not appear every Monday in court at 9 am, and that he would not attend the scheduled hearings. According to him, because of that, the court must issue a warrant for his arrest. - I...

EC expects results from political leaders

Maya Kocijanchik, spokeswoman for the European Commission, today said she expects concrete results from party leaders in Macedonia. - We welcome the resumption of talks between political leaders in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, including the implementation of the recommendations put on the table by the European Commission and that are part of the agreement of 2nd of June....

Gruevski: We will not allow the agreement of 2nd of June to fail

If Zaev has at least a shred of confidence in himself and his policies, I call him to announce early elections for mayor in Strumica this fall, especially after that video on which he openly and shamefully asks for a bribe from a businessman, said Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in his address at the conference of UMS of VMRO-DPMNE. -...

New leadership meeting to be held tomorrow

Tomorrow, leaders of political parties will once again try to bridge differences for exiting the political crisis. As announced, new leadership meeting will be held tomorrow in Skopje, but, according to previous statements of the political parties, it is unlikely that an agreement will be reached. One of the key issues on which the parties have so far failed to...

Greece sails through uncharted waters: Parliament approves referendum

With 178 votes "for" and 120 "against", the Greek Parliament gave green light to the proposal for a referendum on the austerity measures of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. MPs of SYRIZA, Independent Greeks and Golden Dawn voted for the referendum, while all other opposition parties, i.e. River, New Democracy, PASOK and the Communist Party, were against the idea on...

Greece on the edge of the seat, still no agreement

In a climate of great anxiety and uncertainty, Greece awaits the next round of tense talks between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and European lenders. Sunday is the deadline for completion of negotiations between Athens and Brussels. Will the weekend finally bring an agreement or Greece faces bankruptcy? Optimism that reigned at the beginning of the week about a possible...

SDSM to continue with the “bombs” tomorrow?

Although according to the official agreement that the parties signed on 2nd of June in the residence of the European Union SDSM agreed not to publish wiretapped conversations, according to unofficial information of META, the "bombs" will continue tomorrow and the party is still considering their topic. Party spokesman Petre Shilegov said that it is certain that there will not...

SDSM: Gruevski is the key problem and cannot be part of the solution

"Only the withdrawal of Nikola Gruevski and forming a transitional government, which will allow the necessary conditions for fair and democratic elections, could normalize and restore the democratic and European perspective of the country", reads the written response of SDSM to today's statement of Prime Minister Gruevski from Resen, in which he accused opposition leader Zoran Zaev to be...

Gruevski: We didn’t accept technical or transitional government in Brussels

"We didn’t accept technical government, transitional government or something like that in Brussels, and what happened were different ideas of the people who tried to help us, which Mr. Zaev refused from first to last," said Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski today, commenting on the negotiations in Brussels on 10th of June, which he assessed as unsuccessful, blaming opposition leader...

SDSM welcomed Hahn’s effort to resolve the crisis

The views of SDSM on the occasion of the held meeting are presented in the statements of party functionaries and official declarations of the party, SDSM reacts in a statement. The party says that the course and outcome of the leadership meeting held in Brussels caused various comments, speculations and misinformation in the media and the public in Macedonia. "Once...

Is the agreement on early elections canceled?

Political parties to come up with concrete proposals, reads part of the statement of the European Commission at a meeting of EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn with the leaders of political parties. They say they are ready to facilitate talks, but that politicians must take responsibility and make a compromise. This is the only statement about yesterday's meeting which indicates that...

Laurence Auer: Negotiations for exiting the crisis to continue in the same format

We support EU Commissioner Hahn and emphasize that negotiations should continue in the same format in order to give an opportunity to find a consensus on the political crisis in Macedonia, said French Ambassador to Macedonia Laurence Auer. This is the first reaction from the international community after unsuccessful negotiations in Brussels yesterday. At today's reconciliation conference, organized by the...

Announcements for a long negotiating night in Brussels

Although there were brief hopes that negotiations are nearing their end, again no information is communicated for the building of the European Commission in Brussels, where, on the 11th floor, negotiations between the four political leaders, Nikola Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti and Menduh Thaci are held. Unofficial estimate is that the meeting could last late in the evening, and...

Zaev decided to go to Brussels

SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, along with the delegation, will attend tomorrow's meeting in Brussels with EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn. "The statement by EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn along with the OSCE Secretary General that the final report of OSCE/ODIHR on the early parliamentary elections in Macedonia in 2014 contains a number of shortcomings of the electoral process, which requires urgent...