21 September 2015
Katica Janeva in an interview with TV “News 24” said that she herself put herself forward to be the Special Public Prosecutor and applied for and contacted the “adequate people.” Janeva believes she and her team will have enough capacity to handle the cases that are under their jurisdiction. “With the election and I was […]
17 September 2015
The appointment of a special prosecutor is an important element for the normalization of the political situation in Macedonia, but it is not the end of the story, said on Thursday in Brussels the EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, the day before his visit to Skopje. Commissioner Hahn welcomed […]
17 September 2015
The leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev say’s he will not exclude the possibility that the Special Prosecutor may review the cases, “Kumanovo”, “Monster”, “Magyar Telekom” and the case of the leader of political party, United for Macedonia, Ljube Boshkovski’s. Zoran Zaev, responding to a reporter’s question, today said that the jurisdiction of the special prosecutor will […]
16 September 2015
Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is not afraid of the Special Prosecutor. He said during a visit to the Clinical Centre and added there is nothing to be afraid of, reported “MKD.MK“.”Of course I am not afraid, there is nothing to be afraid of”, Gruevski responded to a reporter’s question. When asked whose proposal it was […]
15 September 2015
With 111 votes “for” out of the 114 MP’s who attended, the Law on Public Prosecution and related offenses arising from the content of the illegal interception of communications was voted in. The bill was finally passed. At the plenary session who gave their own presentations were MPs Petre Shilegov, Ilija Dimovski, Pavle Trajanov, Solza […]
15 September 2015
The European Commission has welcomed the agreement reached on appointing the special public prosecutor, said Maja Kocijancic spokeswoman for Commissioner Johannes Hahn during today’s press conference. “We welcome the agreement made this morning in Skopje by the political parties for the appointing of the new Special Public Prosecutor, which was an important element of the […]
15 September 2015
After marathon talks by the working teams of the negotiating groups, the parties reached an agreement this morning for a special law on the Special Public Prosecutor, “Meta” has discovered from sources close to the negotiating teams. We also have learnt that an agreement has been reached today and the name of the new special prosecutor […]
14 September 2015
These talks are serious, and we are doing everything we can, said MP Antonio Miloshoski from VMRO-DPMNE, before the working groups gathered for their daily meeting of the parties for the Przhino Agreement, where they are discussing the election of a special prosecutor, held in the Club of Representatives. At the meeting were all representatives […]
13 September 2015
Today negotiations continued regarding the appointment of the special prosecutor. The negotiating team was joined by European Ambassador Aivo Orav, who talked with representatives of all parties at the Parliamentary Club. Talks were suspended to allow time for further consultations regarding the prosecutor’s position. All representatives respected this in order to achieve complete concentration on […]
13 September 2015
The leader of DUI, Ali Ahmeti said the special prosecutor will be selected on Tuesday, as agreed upon according to the Przino Agreement, and his suggested that the special prosecutor have eight deputy prosecutors in his team, and three of them ought to be Albanians, Ahmeti said in an interview with the newspaper “Koha”. “On […]
12 September 2015
The ruling party refused conditions for the Special Prosecutor to form his own team, reported ‘Nova’. The portal says that at least ten prosecutors are needed in the special prosecutor’s team because he is likely to require enquiries in foreign countries. Also, if the prosecutor was to work alone, he would not be able to […]
9 September 2015
“I think the whole story misleads the opposition – to continue to push aside the countries professional associations and NGOs We are put in a position where we have to decide on a fundamental law that will have an impact on the history of Macedonia – will we have to start over to create a […]
9 September 2015
The opposition SDSM were surprised by the Prime Minister’s statement yesterday regarding the appointing of a Special Prosecutor. They said that VMRO-DPMNE until now had insisted to choose just a special prosecutor, and maintained that the he wouldn’t need associates, nor would he need organs or bodies to make sure his office would run independently. […]
8 September 2015
SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, accompanied by his party delegation celebrated Independence Day at Three Pears. In his speech he told citizens that he had visited Kiro Gligorov, at the first Macedonian President’s grave and quoted from his speech he had given when Macedonia became Independent in 1991. Independence Day was celebrated with the citizens in the […]
1 September 2015
The European Commission has welcomed the return of the opposition to Parliament. EC spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said that now is the time Parliament should start work on reform priorities in the interest of the whole country. “We welcome the fact that the opposition is now back in Parliament. You know that it is part […]
24 August 2015
The large political parties will lose if Macedonia becomes a single electoral unit, but in that case the citizens will benefit most, along with the system of parliamentary democracy. Realistically, the single unit model will prevent all-powerful figures like Gruevski from ruling Macedonia. This was said by Zoran Zaev, President of SDSM at his visit […]
18 August 2015
The meeting between party representatives has ended. The participants discussed about the special public prosecutor. Belgian facilitator in the talks Peter van Houte attended the meeting. Telma reports that the representatives left the meeting without making any comments, while the Belgian facilitator described the meeting as solid and interesting. – I cannot comment today. The […]
18 August 2015
The meeting of the Action groups of the political parties who have signed the Przhino Agreement has started. The meeting is held at the Parliamentary Club. The topic is the special public prosecutor. Representatives of SDSM are Renata Deskoska and Oliver Spasovski. VMRO-DPMNE is represented by Nikola Poposki and Nikola Todorov. DUI is represented by […]
29 July 2015
The European Union will provide any kind of help if becomes necessary to institute a special prosecutor who is going to investigate the findings that came from the tapped conversations, said Maja Kocijanic, spokesperson of the European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn, in response to a question posed by the newspaper Vest […]
26 July 2015
Nikola Gruevski admitted publically today that the case “Putsch” has been mounted politically and he also admitted that he is afraid of the new special public prosecutor, is the statement that came from SDSM. “Gruevski’s party news outlet Kurir wrote: ‘Zaev needs a special public prosecutor to free him from Putsch.’ This means that Gruevski […]
