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“Russia Days” in Skopje and Sofia, Bulgarian MFA Responds to Spreading Disinformation by the Russian Ambassador

The Russian embassies in Skopje and Sofia recently celebrated the National Holiday of the Russian Federation “Russia Day” by organizing receptions in both capitals thereby sending scandalous messages regarding the Russian military aggression in Ukraine. Today, the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was forced to publicly respond and condemn the attempts of the Russian Ambassador, Eleonora Mitrofanova, as “unacceptable and...

MoI: Greek and Albanian flags burnt at yesterday’s protest and stones thrown at the EU Info Centre

At yesterday’s protests in Skopje, which were organized by the World Macedonian Congress and Macedonian communities across Europe, Greek and Albanian flags were burnt and stones were thrown at the EU Info Centre, said the Ministry of Interior. According to the MoI, police found five bottles of flammable liquid in Woman Warrior Park opposite the Parliament. In connection to this,...

Xenophobia and calls for a referendum from the municipalities on the strategy for refugees

A total of six municipalities in the country submitted their opinions to the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and to the Government regarding the draft strategy for the integration of refugees and foreigners from 2017-2027 and the proposed refugee integration action plan for 2017-2027. The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy told “Meta” that parts of the explanations from...

A day before the deadline ends, no one reacts about the strategy for refugees and migrants

The Ministry of labor and social policy, one day before the end of the deadline, still hasn't received any official proposition or reaction about the draft strategy for integration of refugees and foreigners 2017-2027 and for the proposed national action plan for integration of refugees 2017-2027, confirms the Ministry for Meta. The oppositional VMRO-DPMNE has called upon Prime Minister...

If necessary, the MOI is prepared to defend Parliament

The Ministry of Interior (MOI) are monitoring the situation and if there is a violation of public order and peace, we are prepared to react, said MOI to “Meta” regarding recent statement of a possible forced entry into Parliament. “The Ministry of Interior has established operational headquarters in the field. If such a breach of public disorder does occur, the...

Dimovski to Hahn: This is the second time you have broken your promise that you will not interfere

MP and member of the Executive Committee of VMRO-DPMNE, Ilija Dimovski, today responded to the statement by Johannes Hahn, from Saturday, with a note to the EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations and said "only ten days ago in Skopje, he publicly said he will not interfere and now he is posting on "Twitter" that President Ivanov...

Gjorcev expects relations to deepen, while Shekjerinska disappointed by Clinton’s defeat

The deputy president of SDSM, Radmila Shekjerinska is disappointed because the White House did not choose a woman president, while Vlatko Gjorcev of VMRO DPMNE is expecting the relations between USA and Macedonia to deepen, after the elections in both countries. These are the remarks of Shekjerinska and Gjorcev after the election of Donald Trump as the new president of...

US Embassy: Requests By SPO For Support And Independent Investigations Are Reasonable

The US Embassy to Macedonia is encouraging all political parties to abide by their commitments under the Pržino Agreement and the Agreement from July 20, and according to the Embassy, that includes the support of the work by the Special Public Prosecution. This was the reaction from the US Embassy after MPs from ruling majority today in Parliament would not...

The International Community will not accept partial or selective annulments

Last week on Friday, President Gjorgi Ivanov decided to annul the pardons he had granted to 22 politicians out of the 56, a decision which has been strongly criticized by the International Community. Today, as announced, the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) are expected to issue an official comment regarding the annulment of the 22 people. At the Special Prosecutor's Office,...

VMRO-DPMNE: Our only problem with entering NATO, is the name dispute with Greece

Every citizen in the country knows why the Republic of Macedonia is not a NATO member, and that is Greece's attitude to our constitutional name,was the VMRO-DPMNE opinion on becoming a NATO member, while SDSM welcomed the idea of Montenegro getting member status in NATO. “The Republic of Macedonia has met all the conditions for entry into the North Atlantic Alliance...

EU: We’ll believe it, when we see the agreement!

The EU mission in Macedonia so far refrained from commenting on yesterday's agreement, because we still have not received it. "We'll believe it when we see it," said a brief of the EU delegation. EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn, who today is visiting Kosovo, however, will not be visiting Macedonia. The press office for the Commissioner,...

In Brussels Ivanov preserves his language, while at home he receives an avalanche of Internet jokes

The Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov at a news conference in Brussels after the leadership summit dedicated to the refugee crisis, spoke in Macedonian, and his adviser Ivica Bocevski, translated what he said, into English. President Ivanov called upon Bocevski to come and translate for him, and left the stage before Bocevski finished with the translation, this brought on laughter from...

US Embassy: We are concerned about the decision made by the Council of Public Prosecutors

There was a clear reaction to the decision of the Council of Public Prosecutors when they approved only seven of the fourteen candidates as assistant prosecutors to Katica Janeva from the American Embassy in Macedonia. The Embassy of the United States said they are concerned about the decision made by the Council. "We are concerned about the decision of the...

VMRO-DPMNE: Fear from election defeat is making Zaev imagine unreal solutions

"In the next few months, everywhere Zoran Zaev goes so will the dishonest political pledge to the middle classes of 850 euro's a month per family, made by previous SDSM party figureheads, when they promised that one member from every family will be employed", says a spokesman from ruling VMRO-DPMNE party in reaction to a statement from the SDSM leader...

Message to the Mayor: Yes Koce, everything is political, life is political!

"Politics for traffic and safety. Politics for life. Politics for work. Politics for urbanization. Politics for the environment and parks. And everything else. Life is politics, " read the statement from the civil movement “Koce, give us back our streets”. These words were delivered in reaction to the City of Skopje's statement over the protest which was held a...

Secondary Plenum”: Gruevski has destroyed all chances for future dialogue

The "Secondary Plenum," reacts after a statement by the Prime Minister that said "Party plenums encourage students to protest against the quest for knowledge". They said they are appalled by the fact that the Prime Minister publicly associated the plenum with a political party and called it "a disaster for society," and said he had crushed any chances for...

Twitter reactions to Gruevski’s sarcasm

Many vitriolic reactions to the sarcastic laughing of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski who, on the recordings presented by Zoran Zaev today, openly rejoice for demolition of building "Cosmos" of Fijat Canoski, appeared on the social network "Twitter". On the audio recordings can be heard how Gruevski imitates Canoski when he begged him not to demolish his building, which is followed...

Council for Ethics in Media demands immediate release of Kezharovski

Council for Ethics in Media of Macedonia (SEMM) today condemned the verdict of the Court of Appeal for the journalist Tomislav Kezharovski and his express transfer from house arrest to prison “Skopje”. “We believe that this decision sends a message of self-censorship to all journalists in the country. The ethical principles of journalism can be defended and maintained only when...