Tag: Przhino Agreement

The Agreement of Przino was seriously undermined yesterday by the decision made by Skopje's Court, when they pronounced evidence as invalid, more accurately , the audio recordings of intercepted conversations by SDSM filed in addition to criminal charges against the Prime Minister and several cabinet ministers. Sources who have been following the whole process closely say, if this actually happens, the...

  The European Commission has welcomed the return of the opposition to Parliament. EC spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said that now is the time Parliament should start work on reform priorities in the interest of the whole country. "We welcome the fact that the opposition is now back in Parliament. You know that it is part of the agreement brokered by the...

The large political parties will lose if Macedonia becomes a single electoral unit, but in that case the citizens will benefit most, along with the system of parliamentary democracy. Realistically, the single unit model will prevent all-powerful figures like Gruevski from ruling Macedonia. This was said by Zoran Zaev, President of SDSM at his visit of Pehcevo. -This period must be...

Zoran Zaev, the leader of SDSM, visited Berovo today where he met MPs from his and coalition parties, says in the announcement by the opposition. The SDSM announcement says that MPs have agreed that the opposition parliamentary group will return to the National Assembly on September 1 where they will resume their representation of the people through a serious, organized...

Following the summer vacation break, the Action groups of the political parties who signed the Przhino Agreement have returned to the negotiating table. Meta finds out, the topic of today’s talk is the State Elections Commission and the Electoral Laws. SDSM sent Cvetanka Ivanova and Damjan Manchevski as their representatives. VMRO-DPMNE has Nikola Poposki and Nikola Todorov. Dui is represented by...

The leaders of the two biggest political parties in Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski and Zoran Zaev, seem weary of leaving matters to unfold by probability. Immediately after the returned from their summer vacations, they took on active political campaigning in anticipation of the early Parliamentary elections scheduled for April next year. The pre-elections campaign, if it can be called so, was...

The Journalist Association of Macedonia (ZNM) came with the proposal that key positions in the national public radio and TV service, MRTV, should be voted by a two-thirds majority. The people who will fill those positions should be proposed by the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences (MANU) and the National Ombudsman, so that the national public service is...

The European Union will provide any kind of help if becomes necessary to institute a special prosecutor who is going to investigate the findings that came from the tapped conversations, said Maja Kocijanic, spokesperson of the European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn, in response to a question posed by the newspaper Vest whether 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...

The meeting of the Action groups from the biggest political parties has been underway. Today’s team from SDSM is comprised of Radmila Shekerinska and Damjan Manchevski, while VMRO-DPMNE representatives are the same from the previous meeting- Nikola Poposki and Nikola Todorov. DUI representatives are Musa Dzaferi, Artan Grubi and Fatmir Besimi and DPA is represented by Imer Aliu, Bekim Fazliu...

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...

“Allow me to be cristally clear: the European Union didn’t mediate for short-term stability. Our goal is to help the country on its Euro-Atlantic path and help strengthen democracy, open society and rule of law through elections and reforms,” said European Commissioner Hahn in a post on his blog in which, among the rest, he recommended that party leaders...

Slovakian Minister of Foreign Affairs Miroslav Lajcak, in an interview with Meta, said that there aren’t any guarantees that the Przhino Agreement will be implemented. He added that anything that is opposite from full implementation is equal to a gamble with the country’s European perspective. Which mechanisms guarantee that the Przhino Agreement will be carried out and respected? ...

Macedonia and the Przhino political agreement will be the subject of regular Council of Ministers meeting by chief EU diplomats, today in Brussels. EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy, Johannes Hahn, will submit a report about the Agreement to the EU’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini. The report will be also presented to...