Tag: reforms

The implementation of the "3" part and the dynamics for the realization of the rest of the key reforms from the "3-6-9" plan were the topics that were reported by Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani and Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov at today's working breakfast in Brussels with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Member States...

The system for monitoring communications should be dislocated from the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), in order to cancel the monopoly that the Administration has at the moment over this process, said the Head of UBK, Goran Nikolovski. -Current analysis and research show that it is necessary to remove the propitiatory switches from UBK and their transfer at...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the US Ambassador Jess Baily had talks today about the implemented local elections, about commenced reforms and security challenges. "The Ambassador congratulated the country on the successful election process and recommended that the state institutions should implement the recommendations issued by OSCE/ODHIR" said the government's press release. During the meeting, Baily has stressed that...

At today’s 34th session, the Government adopted a decision to establish a working group to monitor the implementation of the plan for the realization of the recommendations from a group of senior experts on systemic rule-of-law issues, related to monitoring communications, from 2015, stated the Government’s press service. Siljan Avramovski, a representative from the Ministry of Interior, has been appointed...

The termination of article 175 of the Law for electronic communications on part of the Constitutional Court in this moment will lead to a vacuum situation where the possibility of any kind of legal monitoring of communications will be denied, a kind of monitoring that would be within the framework of protection of Macedonia's constitutional order and fight against...

The Government is proposing and is not instructing the Constitutional Court to stop the procedure for assessing the constitutionality of Article 175 of the Law on Electronic Communications, which enables the Administration for Security and Counter-Intelligence (UBK) to wiretap directly through telecommunications operators, explains government spokesman , Mile Bosnjakovski. According to him, such a proposal to the Constitutional Court is...

The Government is asking that the Constitutional Court stop the procedure for assessing the constitutionality of Article 175 which is the Law on Electronic Communications because it is already working on security system reforms, and this "initiative is partial and does not approach this topic comprehensively, and it meets a process that is already in process ". The announcement adds...

NATO members and the international community were horrified by the violence in Parliament this April and we welcome the progress that has been made ever since, said NATO Deputy Secretary General, Rose Gottemoeller, at a joint press conference with defense ministers and foreign ministers of Macedonia, Radmila Šekerinska and Nikola Dimitrov, who are visiting NATO headquarters in Brussels. She reminded...

The government will set up an inter-ministerial working group that will need to prepare a solution to reform the system for the interception of communications, based on the recommendations by the Reinhard Priebe expert group, which will provide protection of citizens' rights and protection against abuse of wiretapping. The need for forming this working group was adopted at yesterday's Government...

It has been almost two years since SPO began its work and no one has actually been successfully convicted, creating a perception of impunity, says the report of Reinhard Priebe's expert group, that visited Macedonia in July. The report states that all important areas, such as the judiciary, security or media, require systemic reforms based on an inclusive, transparent and...

"We could have changed the politics and the whole set in MRT, as it was the trend before, but at a time when we are talking about reforms, among which the most important are the media reforms, that should happen with the reforms. Zaev or SDSM should not appoint a director or editors there”, last night Prime Minister Zoran...

"The reform in the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) that will guarantee that the Administration will regain its reputation of a professional and renowned service is in its initial phase. The basic aims of this reform are "professionalization, de-partisation, and transparency" said the Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski, during his presentation of his 100 days in office. Regarding UBK's...

The European Union supports the reform efforts in the Republic of Macedonia, said European Commission spokeswoman Maja Kocijančič, adding that Brussels sent a clear message what they expect from Macedonia in the upcoming elections. “We made it clear that the new Government and the opposition should leave their divisions aside and work together on the implementation of the reform priorities...

At the margins of an informal meeting with the ministers of foreign affairs of the countries members of the European Union and the countries - candidates for a EU membership that took place in Tallinn, today, the Head of the Macedonian diplomacy, Nikola Dimitrov has had a meeting with the Eu Commissioner Johannes Hahn, announced the Macedonian Ministry of...

The Macedonian government has made an impressive start by setting among its priorities the issues with its neighbors, to the ambitious reformatory projects and their positive steps, said the Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sigmar Gabriel during today's meeting with the Head of the Macedonian diplomacy, Nikola Dimitrov in Berlin, states the announcement issued by the German MFA. Gabriel has...

The reforms in the public administration are a significant part of the process of the EU integration and should prepare the country and the public sector to efficiently deal with the challenges with the Euro-integrations, said the Ambassador Samuel Žbogar during today's press conference that was devoted to the "Go Digital - Assistance to the reforms in the...

Today, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev gave a report on the work done in the first 100 days of the Government's formation - under the motto "Word is a word", (meaning keeping to ones word). Zaev underlined that the activities and measures of the Government, in the first one hundred days were aimed at five sectors: the return of the peoples’...

Today, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Dimitrov during his Nordic tour, will have a working visit in Finland. Yesterday in Stockholm, Dimitrov met with Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström, where a declaration for collaboration between the two countries was confirmed, announced the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “the support for the strategic goals of Macedonia has been confirmed...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has sent a letter to the President of the Parliament, Talat Xhaferi, in which he requests, in accordance with the procedures, to set a term for having weekly thematic discussions in a period of one hour. This demand, as Zaev states in his letter, is in the context of the complete implementation of the "3-6-9" plan...

The getaway of Goran Grujovski and Nikola Boshkovski is not a failure of the Macedonian police but it showcases how rotten the judiciary is, said the Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski, who also said that the responsibility for the getaway of the former Head of the Administration of Security and Counter-Intelligence (UBK) and his associate, should be sought from...