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Tomorrow at 11 am, in front of the Assembly, “Student plenum” and “Professorial plenum” will organize an open session. Issues of organizing mass demonstrations because of the revolt, as well as the manner of organized resistance to the proposed changes in the Law on higher education, will be discussed at the joint session. The event is announced on the social...

Parliamentary Committee for Education passed the bill on higher education with nine votes “for”, zero “against” or “abstention”. Minister of Education Abdilakjim Ademi stressed that the state exam won’t apply to current students. MP Solza Grcheva fiercely opposed the bill, according to whom, it is outrageous and unconstitutional. She left the session after the speech, emphasizing that she is going to...

Assembly didn’t have two-thirds majority to start voting for removal of 31 mandates of opposition MPs. Only 65 MPs were present in the hall, and two-thirds majority, i.e. 82 MP, is needed to revoke the mandates. The meeting was not attended by all MPs of the coalition partners VMRO-DPMNE and DUI, nor independent MPs Solza Grcheva and Ljubica Buralieva. Speaker of the...

Today, members of opposition parties set a makeshift memorial of the death of democracy in front of the Assembly of Macedonia to mark two years since “Black Monday”. SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, also placed a package of toilet paper. - Two years after the death of parliamentary democracy in Macedonia, before the monument of “Black Monday”, we promise - we...

Despite protests, anger and disapproval of most of the students and professors, the negative opinion of domestic and foreign experts, on 29th of December, MPs will vote on the package of measures in education. In today’s issue of the daily newspaper “Nova Makedonija”, commercial advertisement of 110 professors who signed an address in which they inform the Government was...

I am following the debate on the proposed new legislative measures. It is necessary to listen to all parties and find the best solution all together. The autonomy of universities is constitutionally guaranteed category and must be respected – emphasized President Ivanov at the annual address at the Assembly. He added that education is transformed everywhere in the world and...

Authorities haven’t made analysis on how much would the announced change of the Coat of Arms cost the citizens, i.e. how much money from the budget would be appropriated for the changes in the means of application of the Coat of Arms. Despite Government’s assurances that citizens won’t have additional costs for the replacement of personal documents with new ones,...

Opposition shouldn’t hope that it would come to power through DUI and Ali Ahmeti, and return to the Assembly, said DUI MP Artan Grubi at today’s session of the Commission on Mandate and Immunity issues, on which, the draft decision for revocation of the mandates of opposition MPs who boycotted the Assembly was brought. - From 2002 to today, both...

At today’s session of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia, MPs passed the bill on minimum wage. With this bill, the minimum wage increased from 8,050 to 8,800 denars. Also, with these changes, a continuous increase of the minimum wage by 2016 was brought, so, in 2015, the minimum wage should be 9,590 denars, while the minimum wage in...

What are the criteria according to which doctors specialists at the Clinical Center in Skopje and Hospital “8th of September” will receive a raise, while the doctors who work in the province won’t? This question was asked by MP Roza Topuzova-Karevska from the Liberal Democratic Party at the parliamentary session meant for questions of MPs. The question was addressed...

Assembly began the procedure for revocation of mandates of 31 MPs of the opposition SDSM, who didn’t appear even once in the Assembly within six months. On the morning meeting of coordinators of the parliamentary groups, it was agreed to authorize the General Secretary Zharko Denkovski to prepare a report on the presence of MPs on the sessions within...

Six-month deadline from the verification of the mandates of opposition coalition, led by SDSM, expires today, but 31 of overall 34 MPs didn’t appear in Assembly even once. In accordance with parliamentary procedure, Trajko Veljanovski, Speaker of the Assembly, will request from General Secretary of the Assembly to make a presence list of all 123 MPs. After this, Speaker Veljanovski should...