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OSCE / ODIHR: There has been some isolated incidents and pressure on the public administration
The OSCE / ODIHR Mission to Skopje’s final report on the parliamentary elections scheduled for December 11 stated that regardless of official election campaign which began on November 21 and should end 24 hours before election day, most political parties had began to mobilize their electorate before this period, by organizing events and implementing campaigns from their headquarters.
The report...
“Most”: The administration are being pressured to vote and attend party rallies
From October 15 to November 20, the civil association "Most", which monitors the pre-election period has noticed violations of the separation between state and party, pressure on the public sector, pressure to vote and the misuse of public resources.
“During this period we noticed officials and public employees attending party events. There has been 43 cases in 26 municipalities. There...
The Government is Making Reform Implementation Misses Instead of Carrying Out Urgent Reforms
The government does not have any capacity to carry out reforms, and Macedonia is moving in the wrong direction because it has a predominant executive government that is influencing the judiciary and the Assembly – this was the conclusion of the debate on topic “Urgent Reform Implementation Misses,” organized by the Foundation Open Society Institute – Macedonia (FOSIM) and the...
AJM: The European Commission is right to conclude that there is violence against journalists
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia agrees with the European Commission’s assessment that the freedom of the press in Macedonia this year has worsened. The representatives of the Association have said that the Commission’s Progress Report was right to conclude that in the majority of the Macedonian media there is a lack of political pluralism and that the national...
Zbogar: All politicians should ensure favorable conditions for credible elections
The positive side of the report is the recommendation for the opening of the EU talks remains, but under the condition that elections must be credible and that the Pržino Agreement must also be fully implemented, said the EU Ambassador to Skopje, Samuel Zbogar, when he presented the latest report by the European Commission (EC) on Macedonia’s progress. However,...
Key findings from EC: Crisis continues as the country suffers from a divisive political culture
In the key findings from the European Commission’s progress report on Macedonia, it notes that the country faces the continuation of the most severe political crisis since 2001. The report also noted that the country suffers from a divisive political culture and lacks the capacity for compromise.
Here is a brief summary of the findings:
Inter-ethnic situation: Fragile
Civil Society: Plays an...
European Commission reiterated the conditional recommendation for Macedonia
The European Commission, this year, reiterated the conditional recommendation for Macedonia's membership in the European Union.
Johannes Hahn, the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, who presented the report on Macedonia, said the country must meet all the conditions laid down by the Pržino Agreement.
“We still have not made it out of the domestic political crisis regardless of...
Brussels is taking a break – Next progress report will be in 2018
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...
Zoran Trajchevski: I Am Under Pressure From Many Sides, But I Will Not Succumb
“I am under pressure from many sides, said Zoran Trajchevski to “Meta” who is the Director of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AAVMU) when answering the question whether political parties are attempting to influence him.
“I am under pressure from many sides, but I will not succumb to it and I will continue to work professionally and...
World Bank Predicts Economic Growth For Macedonia of Only 2%, Lowest in the Region
Economic growth in Macedonia is expected to slow down and reach only 2% in 2016 due to the decline in investments, according to the latest Economic Report of the World Bank for Southeast Europe, which was presented in Skopje today.
“For the first time in six years, investments have had a negative contribution to the economic growth, as opposed to...
Janeva Feeling Better, But it is Still Unknown Whether She Will Attend the Session
The Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva, is feeling better today, however, it is still unknown whether she will attend the session at the Committee of Political Systems and Inter-Ethnic Relations, said the SPO to “Meta”.
Yesterday evening, after two days of reviewing the second report on the work of the SPO, and after answering MPs questions, Janeva fell ill and...
SPO’s Report To Be Discussed By МPs On Monday
The second report by the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday at 12:00 will be discussed at a plenary session in Parliament.
Parliament's official website shows that a session has been scheduled with only two items on the agenda, one is the SPO’s report and the other is the annual report of the work from the Public Prosecution of Macedonia.
The...
NATO: Political crisis is pushing Macedonia away from Membership with the Alliance
The political crisis in Macedonia is pushing the country away from its NATO membership. This was one of the conclusions in the final report from the NATO Summit which took place in Warsaw.
"Given concerns over political developments in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which have taken the country further away from NATO values, we urge all political leaders in...
AVMU: “Alfa”, “Kanal 5”, “Kanal 5 plus”, “Nova” and “TV Sitel” feature unobjective reporting
It appears that various TV stations who have national broadcasting capability do not have the due respect for the principles of Article 61 of the Law concerning Audio & Audio-Visual Media Services, especially those TV stations that are required to demonstrate an objective and impartial presentation of events with equal treatment of any diverse viewpoints and opinions, it was...
SDSM: Nikola Gruevski’s anti-state politics have suffocated the freedom of the media
The latest report from "Freedom House" officially confirms that the media in Macedonia is not free, and this is the result of Nikola Gruevski’s criminal reign, paid with the taxpayers' money, said the SDSM after the report was published.
"Anti-state politics by Nikola Gruevski have suffocated the freedom of speech and the freedom of the media. Gruevski resolved to abuse and pressured...
“Freedom House”: From Partly Free, Macedonia has become Not Free
According to the latest report from "Freedom House" for the freedom of the media, the status for Macedonia went from "partly free" and was reduced to a "Not Free" country due to the discovery of the government illegally wiretapping journalists, corruption among officials and media owners, and the increasing threats and attacks on media workers.
" Macedonia’s media landscape is...
“Freedom House”: Macedonia sinking down the scale in Democratic Governance
The American organization 'Freedom House' which monitors the state of democracy throughout the world, including political freedoms and human rights, has, in its Democratic Governance report for 2016 has given Macedonia a 4.29 result, which is the worst result the country has had in the past 10 years. (The scale of Freedom House ranges from a score of 1 to...
Janeva: I was not demoting the institutions, I am just doubtful over the election results
Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva, today in a statement clarified her previous statement about her comment on the legitimacy of the institutions, and claims it was aimed at pointing out the importance of the SPP’s investigations on "the role of fair and democratic elections, and in building institutions and their legitimacy", it was not aimed at "demoting state institutions".
"As I...
Ministers and Deputy Ministers went through 4 hours reporting before Gruevski
Tonight at the sports center "Jane Sandanski" in Skopje, the VMRO-DPMNE and their leader Nikola Gruevski and all their ministers and deputy ministers in the government of the ruling party, gave their reports of all realized projects from 2006 until today.
Following the opening statement by Gruevski, ministers went through four hours of answering questions from the chairman of the...
Janeva’s absence in Parliament gives SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE a reason for a new argument
This is the first time in 25 years of an independent Macedonia, an elected or appointed person has failed to appear, and without giving a explanation to Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, said the President of the Commission for Political System and Inter-Ethnic Relations, Vlatko Gjorchev after today's session was postponed, as they were meant to examine the...
