20 March 2016
The ruling party, the VMRO-DPMNE today in the sports center “Jane Sandanski” will present the most comprehensive report for accountability, things the party have realized in the past ten years, said a statement from the party. “This report contains more than 3,500 completed projects, measures and reforms, all in the interest of citizens. The report will […]
17 March 2016
Exactly 495,258 voters have been found to be questionable and need to subjected to additional verification, it says in a report after data was cross checked by the Interior Ministry and ten other institutions, which “Telma” managed to get a copy of the report. More than 190,000 were found to be fictitious voters, according to the […]
21 February 2016
The leaders of the four political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement, have gathered at the MPs Clubhouse where they have scheduled an urgent leadership meeting for 15:00. Nikola Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti and Menduh Thaci at the meeting will be presented with the assessment by the European Union and the United States concerning […]
19 February 2016
I encourage all VMRO-DPMNE officials and call upon them, not to even think about putting pressure or intimidating voters, and I encourage them to send written instructions to their institutions in the same direction, said the President of the ruling party, Nikola Gruevski in an interview with the portal “Telegraf“. “I want to remind everyone […]
19 February 2016
Belgian mediator Peter Vanhoutte late tonight confirmed that the parties signatories of the Przhino Agreement had not reached an agreement on the matter of media regulation. “We’ve had intensive negotiations for two days and all I can confirm now is that a deal has not been reached”, said Mr Vanhouttte. When asked who is to […]
10 February 2016
The President of SDSM Zoran Zaev in an interview with “Al Jazeera, Balkan” said that there was no chance that the opposition will participate in elections on April 24. “There are two key reasons for this announcement. Firstly the electoral list has not been cleansed and on the list you can find dead voters or […]
10 February 2016
Officials from VMRO-DPMNE who were mentioned in the “bombs” of SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, have no chance of finding themselves on parliamentary lists, say the people of Bitola who move in political circles. Zoran Ilioski who is currently a MP and member of the Executive Committee of VMRO-DPMNE, who was heard in one of the “bombs” about […]
6 February 2016
Negotiations over the media between the working groups of the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement, again have come to a standstill after yesterday’s bilateral meetings with Belgian mediator Peter Vanhoutte. Negotiators have restated their firm stances and have made clear that they do not intend to deviate from them. A new meeting has not […]
1 February 2016
Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte is expected to submit a new draft-law on the media tomorrow, which will then be presented to all political parties who are signatories to the Przhino Agreement. According to our sources, the mediator was in Brussels at the weekend where he attended a consultation meeting concerning developments in Macedonia. Scheduled for […]
27 January 2016
Yesterday VMRO-DPMNE submitted their final proposals to the other signatories of the Przhino Agreement, proposals for reform within the media “Meta” has learnt. We also learned that SDSM found their proposals completely and totally unacceptable. The meeting between the working groups which was scheduled for yesterday afternoon was postponed for today. They are expected to […]
26 January 2016
If elections were held now, VMRO-DPMNE would win with 29.9 percent of the vote, while SDSM would receive 23.5 percent of the vote. 10.1 percent would vote for DUI and 4.3 percent for DPA, a telephone survey showed coordinated by the agency “Faktor Plus Adria” from Belgrade, which was carried out from January 15th – […]
5 January 2016
The European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn is optimistic that the crisis in Macedonia will be “definitely” resolved. In his blog on January the 1st he wrote: “I hope, that based on our great efforts, it will also be possible to overcome definitely the political crisis in the former Yugoslav Republic […]
23 December 2015
There has been little speculation about who is the most serious candidate to replace Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski although deadlines for his replacement has already begun to flow. In the Przhino Agreement it states that the Prime Minister has to step down 100 days before the parliamentary elections which are to be held on April 24, […]
18 December 2015
Today working groups will not be having a meeting regarding the media. On the proposal of the Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte, political parties should propose possible solutions that they can present on Monday. Yesterday’s meeting of representatives of the parties in the MPs Clubhouse, only lasted an hour. On Monday, the parties should present their […]
11 December 2015
The media and the SEC are the last points in the Przhino Agreement to be addressed before the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski resigns and the VMRO-DPMNE appoints a new candidate for the position. In the Przhino Agreement it clearly stipulates that the Prime Minister should step down 100 days before parliamentary elections, which will be […]
4 December 2015
Political parties have continued the talks on the media in the MPs Clubhouse in Skopje. According to reports, today they will discuss reforms at the Macedonian Radio Television MRT. They, in turn, yesterday again did not make any progress on disputable matters, “Meta” has learnt. According to our information, negotiators discussed the Media Agency, but […]
3 December 2015
The chances of Parliament tomorrow voting in members of the State Election Commission (SEC), created in the style of the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement are decreasing, learns “Meta”. According to our information, the parties can not agree on the names of three experts to serve on the commission. Otherwise, under the contract, […]
2 December 2015
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia is not at war with anyone. The problem is that SDSM does not like any of the AJM proposals for real reform of the media system, says the President of the Journalist Union Naser Selmani on a the question on whether a war had begun with the SDSM and […]
30 November 2015
Right at this moment, when we are under attack, we will be correct and will give it out, as negotiated in the working groups. The end result will show who was right, who is for democracy, and who is not, said Robert Popovski for “Meta”, who is the President of the working group of SDSM in the […]
27 November 2015
In the last few days, an open war has been declared, and the latest to join was the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) and the opposition SDSM, after the contemporary Association put all the political parties to put in the same basket as the culprits because they were not not invited to the negotiations […]
