8 April 2022
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani, in an interview with Portalb.mk says that disinformation and propaganda are tools of war and that the Government treats them as such. He says that the state has difficulties in preventing the daily mass penetration of disinformation in the creation of public opinion. According to […]
18 March 2019
ARM has revoked “certain authorization” from the two of its members suspected of spreading fake news, discovered by Belgian investigative journalist Maarten Schenk. Against the two, who are a Major-Officer for security and a professional soldier, the ARM has announced other sanctions after the formal completion of the disciplinary procedure. “One member was withdrawn from […]
26 October 2017
The viewers of “Macedonian Radio Television” (MRT) can soon be left without European sports championships, without the “Eurovision” song contest, foreign channels, foreign documentaries and feature films due to an outstanding debt towards the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). A source within MRT’s Program Council, who wished to remain anonymous, has revealed that the deb is […]
25 April 2017
The Ambassadors of Sweden, Netherlands and Slovenia, Mats Staffansson, Wouter Plomp, and Milan Jazbec, said today that Brussels doesn’t see the need of organizing new early parliamentary elections especially because the last elections were marked as fair and free, and the new elections would only deepen the political crisis in Macedonia. “The elections that were […]
27 March 2017
The rapporteur for the Republic of Macedonia in European Parliament, Ivo Vajgl in his statement for the state news agency “MIA” denied that he had said something in the media about the president of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, or he had conveyed something that Gruevski had told him during his last visit to Skopje. Still, the […]
21 June 2016
Brussels today again urged Macedonian political leaders to return to the negotiating table and create conditions for credible elections. They also stressed that the coming weeks are crucial for the European future of the country. “Yesterday the Foreign Affairs Council discussed the situation in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. As expressed by the HR/VP […]
21 June 2016
Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias, apparently strongly opposed the idea of European sanctions on Macedonia at yesterday’s Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg. According to Kotzias, the EU will not help Macedonia through sanctions and public pressure, but by acting through more diplomatic channels aimed at developing a culture of compromise, democratic dialogue, and democracy in […]
23 April 2016
DOM has expressed deep concern over announcements made by the EU and the US that they will sanction Macedonia by subtracting the recommendation for EU membership and stop financial assistance through the European Fund and the World Bank as well as other penalties. “Not only does it not lead to any resolution of the political […]
21 April 2016
The European Union could impose sanctions such as a travel ban and the freezing of assets of certain Macedonian politicians who are believed to be obstructing the resolution of the political crisis, ” an unnamed European official told “Reuters”. According to the same source, President Gjorge Ivanov must annul his decision to grant 56 pardons […]
26 September 2015
At a press conference held yesterday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Barack Obama addressed new threats to impose sanctions on China for an alleged cyber attack that occurred regardless of their previous agreement to prevent such hacking attacks. “We will introduce at any means necessary to stop these cyber criminals”, said Obama. Obama pointed […]
16 February 2015
Moscow will “appropriately” react to the new EU sanctions imposed due to the Ukrainian crisis, said the Russian Foreign Ministry, adding that such measures won’t contribute to resolving the conflict in Ukraine. The announcement of the Russian Foreign Ministry reads that Moscow is surprised and confused by the introduction of new sanctions and that they […]
30 January 2015
Last night, at an extraordinary meeting of heads of diplomacies of 28 member states, European Union decided to continue the sanctions on Russia until September, announced EU High Representative Federica Mogherini. Serious debate among most member states and the minority led by Greece, which opposed their continuance, preceded the voting for the continuation of sanctions, […]
27 January 2015
Heads of state and the governments of the 27 EU Member States today announced tightening of sanctions if Russia doesn’t condemn the actions of pro-Russian forces and begin to implement the agreement of Minsk. “We have evidence of continuous and increasingly intense Russian support of separatists, which emphasizes the responsibility of Russia,” reads the joint […]
