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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 11, 2018
Macedonia's government has survived a no-confidence motion initiated by the conservative opposition, which accused it of mishandling relations with neighboring countries while failing to control corruption or halt economic stagnation. In a vote just before midnight in Skopje on April 11, all 62 lawmakersÃâà...
SeeNews
April 11, 2018
SOFIA (Bulgaria), April 11 (SeeNews) - The Independent Bulgarian Energy Exchange (IBEX) said it launched on Wednesday an intraday trading segment in a move which is expected to reduce balancing expenses and bring IBEX closer to coupling with the European Intraday market. "Producers of energyÃâà...
Foreign Brief
April 9, 2018
Today, Macedonia's government will likely hold a no confidence vote against Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's ruling social democrat coalition. Last spring, Zaev seized power following a two-year political crisis marked by scandal and violent protest which uprooted the previous administration. Additionally, theÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
April 6, 2018
Macedonia's government later confirmed the apology to the Associated Press. But the German government has yet to comment on the case, even though the then-German chief-of-staff (and now President) Frank-Walter Steinmeier came under criticism for apparently suppressing information on the case.
Carbonated.TV (blog)
April 6, 2018
“We welcome the FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) government's apology to El-Masri, and its recognition that its security personnel violated the European Convention on Human Rights,” stated James A. Goldston, the executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative. “This certainly goes further thanÃâà...
Yahoo News
March 30, 2018
But even with the support of the ethnic Albanian minority parties, the Social Democrats who lead Macedonia's government do not have a majority to pass a constitutional change in parliament. Greek public television ERT quoted Kotzias as saying on Friday that the "erga omnes" issue and the constitutionalÃâà...
The Hindu
March 30, 2018
Even with the support of the ethnic Albanian minority parties, the Social Democrats who lead Macedonia's government do not have a majority to pass a constitutional change in parliament. Before the meeting, Kotzias said that his desire for constitutional change should be translated into the “internationalÃâà...
New York Times
March 20, 2018
GEVGELIJA, Macedonia — From the time he was a high school student and made his first discovery — graves dating to the Iron Age and coins 3,000 years old — Emil Slamkov said he wanted to be an archaeologist. “For me, it is a chance to discover what the earth is hiding,” he said. “And then to try andÃâà...
Chronicle
March 2, 2018
In southern France, about 2 000 cars were blocked on highways in the Herault region, where snow — and snowplows — are extremely rare. Macedonia's government urged employers to exempt pregnant women and people over 60 from working for a day and to pay special attention to keeping constructionÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 1, 2018
Macedonia's government, meanwhile, urged employers to exempt pregnant women and people over 60 from working for a day and to pay special attention to keeping construction workers warm due to the freezing conditions. The low temperature Thursday in Macedonia dropped to -18 Celsius (-0.4 Fahrenheit) near theÃâà...
Greek Reporter
March 1, 2018
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia government has taken down “Alexander the Great” signs and a statue depicting the Greek hero from Skopje's main airport as part of talks with Greece on the naming issue. On Wednesday, workers took down the statue of Alexander the Great from the arrivalsÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 1, 2018
Macedonia's government, meanwhile, urged employers to exempt pregnant women and people over 60 from working for a day and to pay special attention to keeping construction workers warm due to the freezing conditions. The low temperature Thursday in Macedonia dropped to -18 Celsius (-0.4 Fahrenheit) near theÃâà...
Newser
March 1, 2018
Macedonia's government has urged employers to exempt pregnant women and people aged over 60 from work for a day due to the freezing conditions. The lowest temperature in Macedonia on Thursday was minus 18 Celsius (-0.4 Fahrenheit) recorded near the border with Bulgaria. A government agencyÃâà...
Balkan Insight
February 28, 2018
Macedonia's government on Tuesday stripped Jason Miko, a public champion of the former ruling VMRO DPMNE party, of his title as honorary Macedonian consul in the US state of Arizona. Until it closed in mid-2017, Miko was a regular columnist for one of the most prominent Macedonian dailies, Dnevnik,Ãâà...
New York Times
February 27, 2018
Macedonia's government proposed four new names for the country in a major overture to settle its long-running name dispute with Greece. There were also protests. [Politico]. • A court in Egypt has sentenced Sherine Abdel-Wahab, a famous singer, to six months in prison after she suggested in a video thatÃâà...
Balkan Insight
February 27, 2018
Smaller Albanian parties in Macedonia say they are willing to bolster Zoran Zaev's government with their support but petty quarrels between them could undermine the move. Sinisa Jakov Marusic. BIRN. Skopje. Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with his cabinet. Archive photo: MIA. Up to ten MPsÃâà...
Arab News
February 27, 2018
Defying freezing temperatures and snow, the protesters, organized by a network of several civic associations, held umbrellas in the colors of the Macedonian flag and chanted “Long live Macedonia!” and “Macedonians!” The protesters demanded an end to ongoing talks between Macedonia's governmentÃâà...
The Interpreter
February 20, 2018
The university is amazed when its ceremony in Bendigo is disrupted by students of Greek heritage bussed in from around Victoria. The issue: recognition of the donor as the Macedonian Government, rather than as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Government. If this seems far-fetched, have aÃâà...
EUobserver
February 1, 2018
Macedonia is "optimistic" that neither Greek nationalists nor Russia will stop it from shortly joining Nato. "We believe that we've created a good momentum for the final joint steps forward," on a name dispute with Greece that has dogged its Nato bid, Mile Boshnjakovski, Macedonia's government spokesman,Ãâà...
NBCNews.com
January 10, 2018
... trick" by Macedonia's government. But others, like Eyal at RUSI, do see danger in having states like Macedonia in what he calls "suspended animation" — neither allied with Russia nor the West. "The key objective is to try to maintain stability in what remains one of Europe's least stable countries and to tryÃâà...
The Sofia Globe
November 23, 2017
A list of statues and monuments that should be immediately withdrawn from Skopje's city centre is in the hands of culture minister of Macedonia, Robert Alagjozovski, with the final decisions to be taken by prime minister Zoran Zaev. The list was put together by a working group of the ministry of culture,Ãâà...
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso
November 3, 2017
Former intelligence collaborator Gjorgi Lazarevski disclosed thousands of illegal wiretappings. "Bombs" which brought to the end of Gruevski's government. 03/11/2017 - Borjan Jovanovski. (Originally published by OCCRP, 16 October 2017). For long-serving spy Gjorgi Lazarevski, a 2010 raid on one of Macedonia's fewÃâà...
OCCRP (blog)
October 16, 2017
For long-serving spy Gjorgi Lazarevski, a 2010 raid on one of Macedonia's few remaining independent TV stations was the last straw. Gjorgi Lazarevski, a former Macedonian intelligence officer who helped expose a massive wiretapping scheme that brought down the government. (Credit: Nova TV).
Balkan Insight
May 31, 2017
Macedonia's parliament has approved a new Social Democrat-led coalition government, headed up by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who has vowed economic prosperity, EU and NATO integration, and zero tolerance for corruption. Sinisa Jakov Marusic. BIRN. SkopjeÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
May 17, 2017
A Macedonian opposition leader has been given the official go-ahead to form a government. The decision could bring an end to months of political instability in the southeastern European country. Macedonien Gjorge Ivanov erteilt das Mandat zur Regierungsbildung an Zoran Zaev in Skopje (Reuters/.
ExpressNewsline
December 31, 1999
The protesters demanded an end to ongoing talks between Macedonia's government and their Greek counterparts aimed at solving the 25-year dispute. In a related development, FYROM's prime minister, Zoran Zaev, told the Financial Times on Wednesday that he is optimistic a solution to the nameÃâà...
