25 July 2016
The four political parties, all signatories to the Pržino Agreement, will meet today to put together the amendments which were previously agreed in the last annex of the Pržino Agreement. The working groups of the parties need to synchronize the amendments to the laws on government, media and the law on internal affairs. Then, the […]
14 July 2016
Whether negotiations between the working groups of the political parties, signatories to the Pržino Agreement continue today, depends on whether the ambassadors from the EU and the US, Aivo Orav and Jess Baily assess that there are chances for a final agreement. From our sources within the negotiating teams, we have been told that they […]
13 July 2016
Forming an interim government until elections were the main topic at today’s talks between the working groups of the political parties in Pržino sources within the negotiating teams have told “Meta”. Nikola Todorov from the VMRO-DPMNE, Radmila Sekerinska from the SDSM, Imer Aliu of the DPA and Artan Grubi from the DUI party will continue […]
7 July 2016
The working groups of the political parties who are all signatories to the Pržino Agreement, the VMRO-DPMNE, DUI, DPA and the SDSM today at 11:30 will resume talks at the residence of the European Union in Przino and will discuss reforms to the media. The meeting comes after yesterday’s visit by the German special envoy […]
25 March 2016
Belgian expert Peter Vanhoutte, who facilitated the negotiations of the Przino Agreement and those in the working groups, today left for Brussels. His contract as an independent expert ends on March 27, but he announced that he would be returning to Macedonia on April 4 and said he would continue to work and help the […]
10 March 2016
At the moment, unfortunately, it is impossible to continue meetings for the media format in which the negotiations took place so far, announced today the Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte. “Taking into account the public interest in media negotiations within political working groups, we want to inform you that it was not possible to continue the […]
22 February 2016
The views of Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte are not those of the European Union, told “Meta” European Commission spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic, responding to the question whether the EU plans to replace the mediator that VMRO-DPMNE does not want to cooperate with anymore. “The role of Vanhoutte is a mediator who provides his technical expertise. The […]
20 February 2016
Ambassadors of the European Union (EU) and United States (US) in the country, Aivo Orav and Jess Baily according to announcements this afternoon should announce their assessment of whether there are conditions for holding early parliamentary elections on April 24. There has been no official confirmation on how the ambassadors will announce their decision, whether they […]
17 February 2016
Last nights marathon talks between the working groups of the political parties on media reform ended with no results. Belgian mediator Peter Vanhaute after last night’s talks over the media, tweeted two tweets at 2:00am. In his first tweet he wrote: “After long negotiations, it is time for creative solutions: sleep. Talks on media continue tomorrow. […]
11 February 2016
The working groups of the political parties on media reform today will try to approach these issues. Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte before the meeting at the MPs Clubhouse said he hoped they would make some progress. “All parties submitted new amendments today, and we will be discussing that. I think it is good that everyone […]
8 February 2016
It is still unknown if negotiations will continue today by working groups of political parties who are signatories to the Przhino Agreement. This follows the latest meeting, which took place on Thursday 4th of January this year and ended without anyone involved changing entrenched positions. So far, according to sources connected to the parties, the […]
6 February 2016
Negotiations over the media between the working groups of the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement, again have come to a standstill after yesterday’s bilateral meetings with Belgian mediator Peter Vanhoutte. Negotiators have restated their firm stances and have made clear that they do not intend to deviate from them. A new meeting has not […]
4 February 2016
VMRO-DPMNE rejected the draft law on the media which SDSM submitted yesterday to the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement. According to Ilija Dimovski, a member of the negotiating team for VMRO-DPMNE, the law is unconstitutional, non-European and does not exist in any country in the world. “The draft-law submitted by SDSM wants to […]
4 February 2016
The negotiations between the working groups of the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement are expected to continue on Friday afternoon, where negotiators need to decide on the draft law on the media submitted by SDSM. However, according to pro government media, VMRO-DPMNE and DUI find this draft law unacceptable. Yesterday, SDSM submitted to […]
27 January 2016
We will withdraw our objections we have for the methodology of the renewal of the voters’ list, if VMRO-DPMNE agree to accept the proposals from the International Community to reform the media, said Damian Manchevski from SDSM. “If this is not acceptable to VMRO-DPMNE, then they really do not want to hold fair and democratic […]
27 January 2016
Yesterday VMRO-DPMNE submitted their final proposals to the other signatories of the Przhino Agreement, proposals for reform within the media “Meta” has learnt. We also learned that SDSM found their proposals completely and totally unacceptable. The meeting between the working groups which was scheduled for yesterday afternoon was postponed for today. They are expected to […]
26 January 2016
VMRO-DPMNE proposed that the law for government and political advertising and a combined form for operations of MRTV, should be based on a Slovenian-German-Belgian model to regulate the media, and was discussed yesterday by working groups at the MPs Clubhouse “Meta” has learnt. According to our information, Nikola Todorov, who heads the working group of the ruling […]
25 January 2016
VMRO-DPMNE put forward two proposals at the meeting between the working groups of the parties, all four signatories to the Przhino Agreement, held this afternoon at the MPs Clubhouse, and as mediator Belgian facilitator, Peter Vanhoutte. One of the proposals related to the cleansing and renewal of the voters’ list and the other proposal on […]
25 January 2016
Representatives from political parties who are members of the working groups today at 17:00 at the MPs Clubhouse will meet with Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte. The meeting will discuss the methodology that the SEC should use to cleanse the electoral roll and the regulation of the media. The last meeting between the working groups was […]
25 January 2016
The EU mission in Skopje today via its official Twitter profile has called upon all political parties to respect the Przhino Agreement and the Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva and her work. “All the signatories of the Przhino Agreement should support the work of the Special Public Prosecutor and all four sides of the working […]
