Zaev: I will lead the campaign and will run for prime minister
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev stated that he will again run for prime minister at the upcoming parliamentary elections in April next year.
“I am seeking for a new, clean and entire mandate for us to continue. Now it’s up to the citizens, they will give the direction we need to follow. SDSM will have a modernized team and modernized program”, said Zaev.
Ratification by four more countries separate North Macedonia from NATO accession
With the US ratification of the Protocol for NATO accession of North Macedonia, there are four more countries left to ratify it in order for the entire procedure to finally be completed with the signing and ratification of the Agreement in the Parliament of North Macedonia. So far, the Agreement has been ratified by 25 member states as follows: Albania, Denmark, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Estonia, Luxemburg, Bulgaria, Latvia, Romania, Canada, Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, Great Britain, Montenegro, Norway, Slovenia, Czech Republic and lastly, United States of America.
There are four more countries that need to ratify the country’s accession to NATO. These countries are Iceland, France, the Netherlands and Spain.
FLASH NEWS
Six years from the protests for journalist Tomislav Kezarovski, when hundreds of citizens, journalists and civic activists were prevented by police forces from holding a peaceful protest in front of the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle for Statehood and Independence, for the punishing of the journalist.
German Ambassador in the country, Thomas Gerberich, in relation to the decision of the Council of the EU not to start negotiations with North Macedonia, said that the country is part of Europe and does not deserve nothing less than full membership in the European Union.
Sekerinska: North Macedonia did everything, the EU did not deliver as it had promised.
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev considers that the announcement for an extraordinary resolution of the European Parliament, with which opening accession negotiations for EU membership of North Macedonia and Albania will again be requested, will be helpful and will restore the motivation of our people to continue on the European path.
CIVILIAN ACTIVITIES
CIVIL Conference: The Greens Are Coming!
The Conference “The Greens Are Coming!”, which is organised by CIVIL, will be held on Friday, October 25, at Hotel “Porta” (Aerodrom), from 12 noon to 2.00 pm. Civil society organizations and initiatives, political parties, institutions at the national and local level, the media and interested citizens are invited to the Conference.
Maksim Dimitrievski and Mitko Jancev, Mayors of Kumanovo and Kavadarci, Arta Toci, MP in the Parliament of the RNM, Arianit Xhaferi, Eco Guerilla, Vanco Ordanoski, IT expert, Danica Pavlovska-Cigi, expert on architecture and spatial planning, Xhabir Deralla, Diana Tahiri and Biljana Jordanovska from CIVIL are speakers in the first part of the conference who have been confirmed so far.
Saracini: The phenomenon of impunity encourages haters!
“Hate speech is most widespread on the social networks and is most often generated by the users themselves, but also by other entities such as the media, commercial or political entities that create contents and place them on the social networks. Then come portals that publish information, part of those web portals are professional, but part of them are unprofessional and out of all journalistic standards”, says Petrit Saracini, journalist and media researcher, in a conversation with CIVIL Media.
OPINION
“Mental prison” for human rights and freedom fighters in a “courtroom in the capital city of a small, poor and agonised country”, a verdict in favour of “human moral waste, to carry out dirty tasks for a handful of dishonestly acquired silver coins that the criminal gang throws them, which is falsely presenting itself as a political elite”, a true story of Xhabir Deralla.
“And who ever said it has to”, says Zoran Ivanov, analysing the question on whether Macedonia at home can be called just Macedonia, and how much that topic is a useless imported dilemma.
“This entire concoction from Greece, in a specific package for something to gape at from the failure to receive a date for negotiations, has started to transfer here in our country. But those panicking in Greece and those watching with enjoyment in Macedonia are both ignoring the key fact that the name of our country is now North Macedonia. At home and abroad. Officially or not, voluntarily or not, forcefully or not, whether we like it or not, that’s that”, writes Ivanov.
Members of the textile cluster (employers) yesterday discussed about the increase in the minimum wage…, and the chat had come down to “The bad worker”, opposite “the good employers” – all about a 14.000 minimum salary, says Simona M. Zhivkova.
“There had been a fierce debate among “textile workers” about the 14.000 denars, and we already exactly know what awaits us in January: returning money to employers, pressures, blackmail, dismissals…
Just looking for the possibility to cut back on the already small and miserable salaries that you give, with all the manipulations, shows that you still think that you are a special category of citizens and that you can allow yourselves to publically demand workers to be your slaves, for their children to suffer for a piece of bread, while you send off your children on trips around the world from the age of 16”, writes Zhivkiova.
Biljana Jordanovska
in cooperation with: Dehran Muratov, Maja Ivanovska, Xhabir Deralla, Simona M. Zhivkova, Zoran Ivanov
Translation: Natasa Cvetkovska
