Government in Macedonia
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MACEDONIA, 2016/09/24
The fact that Macedonia is one of the few nations in Europe to have incarcerated a journalist - not for the initial time - speaks volumes about the national of media freedom there, Ricardo Gutierrez says.
The EFJ General Secretary, who visited Macedonia, part other things, to promote an EU funded project, “Journalists' Network for Promoting Media Freedom,” notes that each time he has visited the country, a journalist seems to have been imprisoned under suspicious circumstances.
“Before it was Tomislav Kezarovski and presently it is Zoran Bozinovski,” Gutierrez recalls.
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MACEDONIA, 2013/02/13
As the deadline to submit lists of candidates for the March local elections looms on February 16, it will any minute at this time be clear whether the opposition Social Democrats intend to act on their threats to boycott the polls.
In a last-ditch attempt to move things forward, the European Parliament rapporteur on Macedonia, Richard Howitt, is due in Skopje on Wednesday.
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MACEDONIA, 2013/01/07
Parliament’s Commission on Financing and Budget is blocked with over 1,200 amendments submitted by the opposition Social Democrats, SDSM.
This makes it uncertain whether the commission will have time to submit the draft budget for adoption at a plenary session set for December 24 and meet the deadline formerly the year's end.
The opposition has resisted the government’s plan to raise two fresh loans from the World Bank at the start of next year, all totaling between 250 and 300 million euros. In order to raise the loan, the government needs approval from the parliament.
