With 69 votes “for” and none “against”, the Parliament passed the Law on the Ratification of the Agreement for resolving the name dispute that was signed by Macedonia and Greece. The Ratification of the Agreement passed calmly and was not followed with protests.
“Today a new sun of freedom is born, the objective sun of equality and fulfilling the dream of Euro-Atlantic Macedonia”, said DUI MP Artan Grubi at the parliamentary session on the ratification of the agreement with Greece.
The North Atlantic Council today passed a unanimous decision to put the item on Macedonia’s invitation to NATO at the summit of the Alliance on July 11 and 12 in Brussels. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced this news from the parliamentary platform. He highlighted that the centuries-long aspirations of all the generations before us and of all the citizens of Macedonia are being realized with this decision of the Council.
Following the agreement’s ratification in the parliament, it is sent for signature to President Gjorgje Ivanov. He sent a sharp reaction today to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, in which he says: “I call on Mr. Zaev to immediately initiate a procedure, with the same two-thirds majority vote that is necessary for changing the Constitution of Republic of Macedonia, for determining the accountability of the President of the Republic, that is, for his impeachment. My position in regards to the harmful agreement for the name is final and remains unchanged despite all the laws and pressures that have been expressed”.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) welcomed the agreement on the name and noted that the citizens should express their views in a referendum, and that the institutions should not obstruct it.
“It is about a historic agreement. We welcome the good will and courageous steps that have been made by the two of the Council of Europe member countries, with which they gave a truly valuable contribution towards the stability of the entire region”, said the Norwegian MP.
Today is World Refugee Day. On this occasion “Reporters Without Borders”, warned that authorities use various methods to obstruct media reporting on the migrant crisis, such as threats, intimation, arrests, persecution, not issuing permits, rejecting requests for interviews, taking away equipment and deportation.
CIVIL is implementing the project Action – Integration for support of the democratic reforms, citizen participation, green initiatives and European values in Republic of Macedonia. The workshop “What kind of Macedonia do I want”, with representatives of the local self-government, civil society organizations, green initiatives, political parties, media, activists and interested citizens, will be held tomorrow in the Veles municipal hall starting at 12.00 noon.
These days in the focus of the public are fake news and how to deal with them. On this occasion, the Youth Education Forum held a workshop titled “In video veritas”, in the building of the Municipality of Veles, and had the purpose of informing young people what disinformation is, how to recognize it, in which way they can inform themselves on how to make a difference between information and disinformation, and to encourage them to think why they are harmful.
“Fake news have risen and gained strength with the previous government. There have always been fake news, but never as much as there were at the beginning of this decade when we were faced with the undemocratic identity of the previous government. The fake news that appeared during this period, that there were clashes with the police at the protests, were suppressed quite quickly. The reason for this is that unlike before, fake news do not dominate in the public discourse anymore”, says for CIVIL Media Vladimir Petrevski from the Macedonian Media Fact-Checking Service.
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