Zaev postpones resignation
Shortly before a vote of no confidence in his government (Thursday), the Macedonian Prime Minister and head of the Association of Social Democrats SDSM, Zoran Zaev, postponed the resignation he had announced. The SDSM party leadership decided yesterday evening, media reported in Skopje. Members of the party leadership had unanimously decided that Zaev should remain in his offices “until the processes in the country normalize”. Zaev himself confirmed the information, saying that he wanted to help maintain the parliamentary majority and, if poss…
Zaev resigns after heavy defeat in local elections
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced his resignation as prime minister and head of his party late Sunday following the heavy defeat of his governing Social Democratic Union in Macedonia's local elections. "The responsibility for this outcome is mine and I'm resigning as prime minister and as leader of the Social Democratic Union," Zaev said at a news conference at party headquarters. Although official results were not yet in from the local elections, Zaev conceded defeat in the most important contest — the mayor's race in…
Macedonia local elections - Both major parties declare victory
Late on Sunday evening, the leaders of the two largest political parties on the Macedonian political scene declared victory in the local elections. While waiting for the official and final results of the state electoral commission, both VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM declared victory in the first round in a number of municipalities, but also a head start for the second round of elections, which will take place in two weeks (October 31). - SDSM and the coalition won in the first round or have a serious lead over VMRO-DPMNE in more than 30 municipalities …
Macedonia the only country in Europe without an Archaeological Institute
Macedonia is the only country in the region and in Europe that does not have an archaeological institute. For this reason, according to Pero Ardzanliev from the Archaeological Museum, there are hardly any publications in the field of archaeology in our country. This was underlined at the forum of the Macedonian National Blue Shield Committee on the subject of "Theft of museum objects and illegal trade in cultural goods", in which Maja Konevska, the public prosecutor of the General Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Organ…
'Generations of young Macedonians and Albanians currently hate Bulgaria'
According to the former Bulgarian Prime Minister, many months and a lot of time have been missed, and at the same time “great tension has been created in Macedonia, in Albania and in the whole EU against Bulgaria. “Bulgaria has missed many months to explain its position,” Boyko Borisov said, adding that “generations of young Macedonians and Albanians currently hate Bulgaria.” Borisov has a firm stand that a compromise must and can be made. According to Borisov, at the EU-Western Balkans Summit Radev “will lie once again”. “He always promised…
Ethnic Macedonians in Greece? Australian Census confirmed their existence!
The Macedonian daily newspaper Nova Makedonija with an article about ethnic Macedonians who live in Australia, but originate from neighboring Greece. There, in the EU state Greece, their ethnicity is not recognized and the minority is negated. A census in Australia reveals this, reports Nova Makedonija. At a time when Macedonia is constantly and seriously attacked by its neighbors, our compatriots in the diaspora are struggling in every way to prove their right to self-determination as ethnic Macedonians. Nova Makedonija recently published a…
Kocarev: We need European values, not the EU!
Ljupčo Kocarev, President of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU) with a column for the Macedonian daily newspaper Nova Makedonija: History teaches us that empires are born and fall. There is no better source for defining imperialism than the Encyclopedia Britannica, first printed in 1768 in a country that was a great empire in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. According to the encyclopedia, "imperialism" means "state policy, practice or advocacy for the expansion of power and domination, particularly…
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