26 November 2015
These are the negotiations of political parties included in the Przhino Agreement, because I see no sense in it to include non-government organizations and media associations, said Robert Popovski, a member of the working group of SDSM in talks regarding the media sphere. According to him, the journalists’ associations should lobby political parties to advocate […]
8 November 2015
After weeks of negotiations, the political parties, all signatories to the Przhino Agreement, in the early hours on Friday morning they reached an agreement on all matters from the agreement of June the 2nd and July the 15th, which should be applied tomorrow. Nikola Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti and Menduh Thaci with their teams […]
6 November 2015
The leaders of the four political parties, all signatory to the Przhino Agreement, this morning reached an agreement on the Law on Government and the Law on the “Bombs”. Therefore, the deadlines have begun for early parliamentary elections, scheduled for April 24, 2016. On Monday: The new Ministers and Deputy Ministers from SDSM will officially […]
6 November 2015
The leaders of the four political parties, all signatories of the Przhino Agreement Nikola Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti and Menduh Thaci, after many hours, the negotiations prevailed and reached an agreement on the Law on Government and the Law on the “Bombs”. The new Minister of Interior, as agreed, will be SDSM Secretary General, […]
29 October 2015
After a day of silence after the statement of the Ambassadors in Macedonia sent a message to the political parties for the immediate implementation of the Przhino Agreement. Today, participants from the working groups again started accusing each other of violating the agreement. Antonio Milososki of the VMRO-DPMNE before the MPs Clubhouse in Skopje accused […]
29 October 2015
The facilitator in the negotiations of the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement, Peter Vanhoutte, submitted a new draft law on the powers of Ministers and Deputy ministers for the new joint Interim Government. The proposal was transferred from previous talks between the parties, and primarily concerns the credentials the new Interior Minister would […]
27 October 2015
The Ambassadors of the US, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the European Union stood before the Government today and read a joint statement on the political crisis in the country and the Przhno Agreement, which urged VMRO-DPMNE to honour its obligations which they accepted in Przhino and as for SDSM to continue to fulfil their […]
24 October 2015
After two and a half hours of negotiations, the leaders of VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM, DUI, and DPA Nikola Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti and Menduh Thaci agreed that talks on the Przhino Agreement will resume tomorrow with bilateral meetings. Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte said he expects negotiations next week to intensify. “We agreed to continue negotiations, we […]
22 October 2015
According to data from the public opinion research agency “Brima Gallup”, the ruling party VMRO-DPMNE has twice the support of the opposition SDSM. For Gruevski’s VMRO-DPMNE 23.5 percent of the population will vote for them ,while the opposition SDSM has 12.4 percent. DUI takes third place with 7.6 percent of support, and in fourth place […]
21 October 2015
Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte said today that if no agreements are made on the details of the functioning of the State Election Commission by the beginning of November, elections in April are almost impossible. He says that now we now need to ask whether the political parties want to reach a full agreement, and according […]
21 October 2015
Political parties last night tried to reach an agreement on the matter of the choice of Ministers and Law on the “bombs”. The last deadline was missed of the Przhino Agreement, which expired on the 20th of October. It’s been reported that, SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE stuck to their of their demands. The ruling party wants […]
19 October 2015
The SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, arrived at a meeting with EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Johannes Hahn. He was by accompanied by Radmila Sekerinska, Renata Deskovska, Damijan Manchevski and Oliver Spasovski. Earlier, Commissioner Hahn met with the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and DUI leader Ali Ahmeti. Accompanying the Prime Minister were Foreign Minister […]
18 October 2015
Almost all the events that brought tension on to the political scene last week will stream into the of tomorrow’s agenda. The visit of the High Commissioner for the EU Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations , Johannes Hahn. Although there hasn’t been an official statement of Mr Hahns scheduled meetings whilst he is in Macedonia, however he will […]
18 October 2015
After 15 hours of talks, working groups from the parties who are signatories to the Przhino Agreement this morning reached an agreement on electoral laws, “Meta”has learnt. The agreement of the manner of voting in SEC, the voting of the Diaspora and the clearing up of the electoral roll has now been settled. SEC members would […]
14 October 2015
Belgian expert Peter Vanhoutte said that the parties were on the right track to reach an agreement on the electoral law, where he expressed his satisfaction. However, he said the party, without specifying which one, abandoned the negotiations because of non-compliance for a Special Prosecutor. SDSM Secretary General Oliver Spasovski before the MPs Clubhouse where […]
9 October 2015
The Bilateral meeting with MP Artan Grubi from DUI, and Belgian facilitator, Peter Vanhoutte came to an end. They both declined to make a statement, although Mr Vanhoutte Van said shortly he is optimistic, but declined to comment on anything else The Belgian expert will meet with representatives from SDSM at 16:00 pm.
9 October 2015
“The law prohibiting the publication and distribution of the materials which were a result of unlawful wire-tapping of communications, I submitted it for parliamentary procedure on October the 6th with no intention to undermine the negotiations or to cause any damage. I submitted it because the negotiations were going so well and they were expected […]
9 October 2015
Belgian expert Peter Vanhoutte, who is one of the facilitators in the negotiations of the working groups to the parties to the Przhino Agreement, today has a series of meetings with representatives with various political parties in Parliament, to bring their views together on issues relating to election laws. At 12:00 pm, he met with representatives […]
1 October 2015
SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, during his visit to Stip today, refused to be drawn on comments or questions on the selection, or composition of Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva’s team of prosecutors. Zaev announced, this weekend, that the SDSM should start reviewing ministerial and deputy positions that will be included as part of the Government’s 20th of […]
22 September 2015
The SDSM are in search of people to fill in positions such as deputies and ministers as predetermined in the Przhino Agreement. By the 20th of October, the Social Democrats have to propose new ministers at the Minister for Internal Affairs and the Ministry for Labour and Social Policy. These candidates have to acceptable to […]
