Tag: Progress report

The European Commission (EC) in the short report released on Monday recommends that the European Union (EU) start accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania. Among the highlights, EC points out that North Macedonia has taken decisive steps to strengthen the independence of the judiciary,  improved its performance in the fight against corruption and organized crime and also advanced...

The government is now even more energetic to lead the reform processes, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev this morning at a joint press conference with EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn. “We are ready to take a new step forward. The clear recommendation is a strong motive for the next difficult but achievable goal. The decision...

Macedonia received a clear and unconditional recommendation to start talks regarding the country's membership with the EU, explained EU Ambassador Samuel Žbogar during a press conference at the EU InfoCentre in Skopje, after a live video link with Brussels of the presentation of the European Commission Progress Report on the Western Balkans and Turkey. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs...

Special Rapporteur for Macedonia in European Parliament, Ivo Vajgl on January 10 drew up a draft report for the European Commission on Macedonia's progress in 2016. The report will be discussed later this month at the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) of the European Parliament in Brussels. In the report, Vajgl recommends the start of accession negotiations and says that...

Even though the largest Criminal Court in the country, Basic Court Skopje 1, is turning into a circus and the European Commission’s report on Macedonia's progress noted serious shortcomings in the judicial system and not to mention the obstruction of the Special Public Prosecution’s work, the most responsible person for the judicial system in the country, the Minister of...

The Special Public Prosecutor's office has not commented on statements by European Commissioner Johannes Hahn and the findings of the European Commission’s report on Macedonia's progress,  the area of work of the SPO, as well as statements by MEP Eduard Kukan. On Wednesday, we contacted the SPO but did not receive a comment on the statements or the progress report...

The crisis in Macedonia is not yet over. There have been positive steps in terms of the Pržino Agreement, especially that elections were scheduled for December 11 and which are a vital opportunity to overcome the crisis, said EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn at a press conference after the presentation of the progress reports...

Tomorrow the European Commission will publish their report on EU enlargement and the progress report on the Western Balkans, but the next report, instead of next year, will be published as late as 2018, according to "Meta" sources from Brussels. Unofficially, within the European Commission there is a sense of weariness surrounding the reports, especially considering that they do not...

Today, the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office submitted two proposals for indictments to the Basic Court Skopje 1, says the latest progress report by the SPO, which prosecutors will present to the media today after the progress report generated great interest. The same report by the SPO has to be submitted to Parliament and the Council of Public Prosecutors today. The report did...

The report is the real mirror of the general situation in the country and the obligation for institutions to act in accordance with the expectations of Brussels, assessed the Democratic Union for Integration, Ali Ahmeti, who today received the progress report on the country by the Ambassador of the European Union in Macedonia , Aivo Orav, announced the party. Ahmeti...

The European Commission's economic section is one of the most accurate and precise points which are also painful points in the Macedonian economy, says Professor and former Minister of Economy Abdulmenaf Bedzeti. According to Bedzeti, the report is very clear and unambiguous, with no diplomatic vocabulary and no calculation as to how will be understood, it points out the problems...

This is Macedonia's seventh consecutive year, receiving recommendations from the European Commission to start negotiations for membership in the European Union, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski announced after the EU Ambassador to Macedonia, Aivo Orav received the annual report on the country's progress in European integration. Gruevski said that the political report evaluates the characteristics of Macedonia through the prism of...

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov received today the Ambassador of the European Union in Macedonia, Ambassador Aivo Orav. Ambassador Orav handed the report on Macedonia's progress of 2015 to President Ivanov and informed Ivanov on key estimates contained in the document, prepared by the European Commission. Ivanov said that this year's European Commission report gives an objective picture of the current situation...

The reports by the European Commission provided for Macedonia's progress in the past four years, show differences in frequencies of the use of certain keywords, which is an indicator of the deterioration of the situation in certain areas. For example, the term "corruption" in a report in 2012 was mentioned 39 times, where as in 2013 it was mentioned 37...

We are happy that with so much effort, sincere dedication to citizens and Macedonia, we managed to save the European Commission's recommendation for Macedonia, said at today's press conference the Deputy Leader of the SDSM, Radmila Sekerinska. “The recommendation, unfortunately, after 10 years of being in a candidate status, the recommendation is conditional and it is because of the frivolous...

Macedonia today received a new recommendation on their progress in European integration, which means it has the capacity to join the European Union, but I do not believe that the European Commission has the capacity to accept Macedonia as a full member, announced Antonio Milososki, at press conference, a member of the Executive Committee of VMRO DPMNE. According to him, the...

The Head of Delegation of the European Union, Ambassador Aivo Orav, today meets with President Gjorge Ivanov to present the progress report from the European Commission on the Republic of Macedonia for 2015. As announced, the meeting will be held this afternoon at the Presidential Residence

Tomorrow Euro Ambassador Aivo Orav at 15:15 will present President Gjorge Ivanov with the progress report from the European Commission for the Republic of Macedonia. "The President of the Republic of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanov, will meet with Ambassador Orav, Head of the EU Delegation in Macedonia tomorrow. At the meeting, Ambassador Orav will present President Ivanov the report on Macedonia's...

The European Commission today called on political parties in Macedonia to take the remaining steps necessary, to fully implement the Przhino Agreement. “We understand the parties are close to an agreement. We encourage all parties to make the necessary remaining steps in view of  implementing  the commitments of the June/July agreement. This is also relevant in the context  of the...