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Kathimerini
April 26, 2018
On the other hand, FYROM's official position has oscillated between a hard-line stance and a more moderate one; the former attempts to monopolize the use of the word “Macedonia” and was predominant during Nikola Gruevski's 10-year rule of the country. The latter is willing to accept a compound name,Ãâà...
Arab News
April 21, 2018
UN mediated talks to settle the row have resumed since Zaev's Social Democrats won elections last year, ousting the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party of Nikola Gruevski after more than ten years in power. The negotiations have made progress after Macedonia agreed in February to change the name of theÃâà...
Balkan Insight
April 18, 2018
The new leader of the VMRO DPMNE says Macedonia's new government is the worst in post-independence history – but is reticent on the legacy of his predecessor, Nikola Gruevski. Katerina Blazevska BIRN Skopje. Conducting an interview at the grandiose new headquarters of Macedonia's former rulingÃâà...
Balkan Insight
April 11, 2018
Macedonia's change in the government and fall of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski brought the only improvement in the Balkans, according to the report. “Macedonia recorded its first score improvements since 2010, ending seven straight years of decline,” it said. Albania posted a very smallÃâà...
Balkan Insight
April 5, 2018
For the past two years, the EU has frozen its invitation for Macedonia to start membership talks due to an ongoing political crisis, which was only resolved last year with the fall of the VMRO DPMNE-led government of Nikola Gruevski. Despite his savage criticism of the government, Mickovski hinted that hisÃâà...
Balkan Insight
April 4, 2018
Mats Staffansson thought he had seen his share of drama in his long diplomatic career. He served in the Swedish Embassy in Warsaw when General Jaruzelski declared martial law in December 1981 and arrested 6,000 people overnight. He was one of the few Western ambassadors to stay in SerbiaÃâà...
Balkan Insight
April 1, 2018
Macedonia's President since 2009, Gjorge Ivanov, belongs to but does not lead the VMRO-DPMNE party of the recently-ousted Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. After his election defeat, Gruevski passed the party leadership to Hristijan Mickoski. The situation is different in Bosnia, which does not have oneÃâà...
New York Times
March 28, 2018
When the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski announced the project, he argued that it would create much-needed jobs and bolster national pride. And there are those who appreciate it, even for its sheer madness. Ultimately, it was all about more than aesthetics; it was an effort to stake a claim to aÃâà...
Kathimerini
March 27, 2018
The Office of the Special Public Prosecutor in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has opened an investigation into the selection of Greek construction company Aktor as the preferred bidder for the Demir Kapija-Smokvica highway project. Suspects include FYROM's ex-prime minister NikolaÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 21, 2018
Macedonia's SJO on Wednesday said it suspects the leader of the largest ethnic Albanian party in Macedonia, the junior ruling Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, Ali Ahmeti, as well as former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, of spending 2.8 million euros on a census in 2011 which they later deliberatelyÃâà...
Kathimerini
March 17, 2018
Tensions ran high this week as FYROM's Parliament approved a law allowing for the wider use of the Albanian language, despite the efforts of opposition nationalists, spearheaded by former prime minister and ex-VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski. Gruevski, along with other lawmakers, pulled awayÃâà...
SeeNews
December 31, 1999
In Macedonia, former conservative prime minister Nikola Gruevski recently held power for nearly 10 consecutive years. Though only in power since 2014, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic already appears to have established a stranglehold over the country's politics. In similar fashion to some of hisÃâà...
Exit
December 31, 1999
Last week, the Macedonian parliament passed a law allowing wider official use of the Albanian language. The voting process was peppered with verbal and physical threats, particularly toward Speaker Talat Xhaferi. Nikola Gruevski, former VMRO leader and former Prime Minister of Macedonia, attackedÃâà...
Greek Reporter
December 31, 1999
Essential for the revision of the constitution is the participation of lawmakers from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, the party of Nikola Gruevski. Gruevski, the previous FYROM prime minister, has been blamed for fanning irredentist flames in forging the Balkan country's heritage and history. Greece's proposalÃâà...
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