Macedonian ex-PM Gruevski set to win election in test for EU
SKOPJE, 08. DEC. 2016 – Macedonia’s veteran nationalist leader Nikola Gruevski party looks set for a comeback in 11 December parliamentary election, posing a challenge to the European Union and its...
View ArticleMacedonia’s Election Risks Emboldening Other Strongmen
GRAZ, 09. DEC. 2016(BIRN, by Florian Bieber, professor for Southeast European History and Politics at the University of Graz and coordinator of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group – BiEPAG) –...
View ArticleMacedonia:Both Main Parties Claim Election Victory
SKOPJE, 12. DEC. 2016 – Both main political parties were celebrating victory in the election in Macedonia on Sunday night ahead of the official declaration of the results by the State Electoral...
View ArticleMacedonian Leaders’ Wild Language Worries EU
SKOPJE, 19. DEC. 2016 – Brussels was concerned about the high tension and negative rhetoric in Macedonia, the European Commission said, following an inflammatory speech by former Prime Minister Nikola...
View ArticleMacedonian Albanian Leaders Plot Joint Strategy in Tirana
TIRANA, 30. DEC. 2016 – Heads of three of the four parties representing Macedonia’s large ethnic Albanian community met in Tirana and expressed the need to seize the moment in Macedonia and agree on...
View ArticleDacic: Serbia’s relations with its neighbors are “burdened” by Kosovo issue...
BELGRADE, 02. JAN 2017 – Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has told Beta News Agency in an interview that Serbia could vote against the interests of its neighbors who in the past failed to support...
View ArticleMacedonia:Albanian Parties New Conditions For Participation in Government
SKOPJE, 08. JAN. 2017 – Albanian parties in Macedonia on Saturday agreed their key conditions for participation in a future coalition government – in a move hailed by neighbouring Albania as...
View ArticleGruevski Invited to Form Macedonian Government
SKOPJE, 09. JAN. 2017 – VMRO DPMNE party leader Nikola Gruevski has 20 days to try to form a new government after the country’s President Gjorge Ivanov offered him a mandate. Macedonian President...
View ArticleFM Popovski:Tirana and Pristina must not meddle in Skopje’s affairs
SKOPJE, 11. JAN.2017 – The head of FYR of Macedonia’s diplomacy, Nikola Popovski sayd that Albania and Kosovo should not meddle in the internal affairs of his country, Independent Balkans News Agency...
View ArticleMacedonia to Serbia: Use our “correct name”– Serbian FM: “Republic of Kosovo...
SKOPJE, BELGRADE, 20. JAN. 2017 – The Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has gone through diplomatic channels to ask Serbia to use “the correct name for the Republic of Macedonia,” and not acronym...
View ArticleMacedonia: Gruevski Fails to Form New Government
SKOPJE, 29. JAN. 2017 – Former Macedonian Prime Minister and VMRO DPMNE party leader Nikola Gruevski missed his deadline to form a new government after failing to secure support from his former...
View ArticleMacedonian President: Mandate to Be Handed to Coalition that Would Secure...
SKOPJE 01. 2017 – After the former rulling VMRO-DPNE party failed to form a cabinet, the mandate will be handed over to the coalition that would secure a majority in the Parliament, the President of...
View ArticleEdi Rama: Macedonia Cannot Exist without ethnic Albanians
PRISTINA, 03. FEB. 2017 – The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama said in an interview with the “Clan Kosova” television, that Macedonians should know that Macedonia cannot exist without ith Albanian...
View ArticleSkopje:Albanian Rama and Kosovo’s Thaci “fueling fires in neighboring countries”
February 3, 2017 -“Politicians from our imminent neighborhood are attempting to divert attention from their internal issues by fueling the fires in neighboring countries, and by doing so they are...
View ArticleBrussels: Rama’s Аlbanian Platform Completely Unacceptable for EU
February 3, 2017 – The member of European Parliament and former Slovakian minister of foreign affairs, Eduard Kukan, sent a strong condemnation for the so-called Albanian platform of the parties...
View ArticleUS congressman thinks Macedonia is “not a country” and should be divided
SOFIA, TIRANA, 08. FEB. 2017 – US congressman Dana Rohrabacher thinks Macedonia is “not a country”. After reportedly urging “a land swap” between southern parts of central Serbia and northern Kosovo,...
View ArticleState Department: United States Support Macedonia’s Territorial Integrity
WASHINGTON, 08. FEB. 201 – The position of the United States towards Macedonia remains unchanged, says the State Department regarding the statement of U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher that Macedonia...
View ArticleMacedonia Opposition Nominates its leader Zaev as PM Candidate
SKOPJE, 25. FEB. 2017 – Macedonia’s main opposition party, the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) formally nominated its leader, Zoran Zaev, as a prime ministerial candidate, after securing...
View ArticleGruevski: Drop “Tirana Platform” and I’ll back Macedonian minority govt
SKOPJE, 27. FEB. 2017 – Former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has offered to support a minority government led by the opposition SDSM party if its leader gave up on implementing the...
View ArticleEU, NATO urge Macedonian leader to allow new government
SKOPJE, 27. FEB. 2017 – The European Commission and NATO urged the president of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanov, to abide by the country’s constitution and allow the formation...
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