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  MACEDONIA WILL JOIN THE EU TILL 2020

According to the prognosis released in the report of the Department for analyze and research by the London magazine “Economist”, Macedonia will be an EU member till 2020. Namely, Macedonia is in the group with Turkey and the countries from the West Balkan: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro, with exception of Croatia.
The report envisions Croatia to become an EU member till 2010, respectively two years after the announced reception of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007 or 2008. The chief of the Macedonian diplomacy Ilinka Mitreva reacted on this prognosis: “I don’t believe in pessimistic prognosis, but only in the dedication force of the reforms which the Republic of Macedonia will led her in EU”, adding that this country deserves to receive invitation for the next round of expansion.		  
     
  NATO INVITATION IN 2008

A happening in the frames of the project “NATO’s Sunday” and motive the Alliance’ Day – 4th of April, in organization of euro-Atlantic council of Macedonia, was held in the City park in Skopje.
Otherwise, the lobbying of Macedonia for quicker reception in NATO is difficult. Only the smaller NATO’s countries-members on the meeting of North Atlantic Council were not against Macedonia, together with Croatia and Albania to get invitation on the Summit in Riga and membership in 2007. The bigger countries-members, among which is also our strategic partner USA, said “NO” invitation till 2008. The Summit in Riga must be a summit of Alliance’s transformation and the Summit in 2008 to be a summit of expansion. USA and other bigger countries-members have had other plans for the following years.		  
     
 

THERE IS NO PHOTO DOCUMENTATION FOR “BACILO”

The president of anticorruption commission, Mihajlo Manevski, assured that for the case “Bacilo”, in which Isnifaris Djemaili got 727.000 euros damage from the country for guaranteed around 1000 sheep, horses and other animals, there is no photo documentation. According to him, there are opposite and unfinished things in the expert evidences, too. “The expert evidences are more interested in the value if the cheese or the sheep, instead of confirming the real damage, with inspection at the same place”.
In connection with this case Manevski said that the paid interest of 300.000 euros to possession of the animals is also disputable. For anticorruption commission is not clear that with which helicopters the herd was bombarded, when on that day, according to the documents of the Ministry of defense, the aviation haven’t got military activities.
“The Supreme court will act according to its own competence for the case “Bacilo” if the report by the State commission of corruption preventing will be delivered to the court”, Dane Iliev stated.

  
     
  BORDER COLLABORATION BETWEEN MACEDONIA AND BULGARIA

Macedonia and Bulgaria will receive 950.000 euros in the first year for border collaboration, from which half of it will be intend for so called little projects, and the rest for realization of bigger investment projects. As the mayor of the municipality of Strumica, Zoran Zaev points out; the means will be directed in the area of housing and construction, communication, public sector and life environment, education, culture and labor market, agriculture, industry, services, trading and tourism, like in the public administration and civil society. The program will last three years and will be financially supported by the European agency of reconstruction. According to the mayor, the aims of this program are these projects to contribute also in development of the border regions in both countries.		  
     
 

WHO WILL BE THE PRESIDENT OF DIK?

The candidate for a president of DIK, for who VMRO-DPMNE and DPA will bargain, will surely be elected by the Assembly. On the telephone conversation the Prime Minister Buckovski promised this to the leader of the opposition Nikola Gruevski. The promise ensued when Gruevski openly said that he fears from the possibility that the parliament majority will play out the agreement the opposition and authority, because they have only one member in the assembly commission of elections and naming. The management of VMRO-DMNE made a list with 10 possible candidates. Neither in VMRO-DMNE, nor in DPA wants to talk publicly who are the possible candidates for president of DIK. According to the information that is circling in the public, most of the candidates are professors from the Faculty of law and the others are famous jurists. The name of the president of DIK was not known till the closing of this title.

  
     
  SLOW AND LAGGING JUDICIARY

The Macedonian courts finished half of the work last year. From more than 1.650.000 cases, judges have solved only 820.000. A conclusion of the annual report’s presentation is: slow and lagging judiciary, unequipped courts and small number of judges, but also enlarged income of new cases. “We have unequal engagement of the judges; we have courts where the judges work under that that we estimate that they can finish the average, poor quality working, not going at work, corruption and other. All of this, in generally, gives a general picture of the judiciary as slow and lagging and inefficient”, the president of the Supreme Court, Dane Iliev stated.		  
     
  PASSED THE LAW FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS

The assembly passed the Law for foreign affairs after 15 years from the acquisition independence of the country. Doing foreign affairs, creating, confirmation and realization of the foreign policy, the way and procedure of doing foreign affairs by the authorities of the Government, the competence, the organization and the work of the Ministry of foreign affairs are regulated with this Law.		  
     
  AMERICAN CERTIFICATES FOR MACEDONIAN HOTELS

Four hotels from Ohrid and one from Struga got certificates that they have skilled personnel. This process was implemented with help of USAID and its Project of competition, precisely with the Cluster of tourism.
The certificates that the hotels “Metropol”, “Flamengo”, “Donco” and complex “St. Naum” from Ohrid and “Ineks-Drim” from Struga got are confirmation for finished training in hotel trade and services. The Cluster of tourism supported by the Project of competition has identified this training as preferential in the efforts for attracting foreign tourists.		  
     
  FIVE TOMES OF “THE RACE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS” HAVE BEEN PROMOTED

The publisher project of the monumental five tomes history of the philosophy by professor d-r Ferid Muhic, titles as “The race of the philosophers”, is a cultural happening par excellence- that is a result of the unusual philosophic habit of one deep philosopher and confirmation of the superb reputation of “Tabernakul” as publisher. The specialty of this project due to the fact that he is authentic, superb and that he confirms the maturity of one intellectual background, in this case ours, the Macedonian background.
The titles of the five tomes are: “Descendants of the Gods”, “Philosophers comforters”, “Philosophers ascetics”, “Philosophers leaders” and “Philosophers from our street”.
The project began with announcing of the first tome “Descendants of the Gods”, with a presentation by d-r Vera Georgieva and professor d-r Kole Jovanovski.		  
     
  EDUCATIONAL MANIFESTATION AT THE SKOPJE’S FAIR

The manifestation “Days of education and career 2006” and “Educational meetings” that are organized in order to help to the Macedonian students with the choice and the selection of their own professional definition, the institution where they will continue the education, company where they would work after the graduation, as well as securing financial means for studying, are in progress at the Skopje’s fair. The manifestation is intended to the students from all grades, as well as the high school students – future students who should make their own selection with the choice of the future educational orientation and institution, and with that to make their own determination.		  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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  PM BUCKOVSKI AT MEETING OF SOUTHEAST EUROPE'S PRIME MINISTERS

Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski will attend Thursday a meeting of Southeast Europe's Prime Ministers in Bucharest.
The meeting will focus on the expansion of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) and creation of single trade zone.
The meeting of Prime Ministers from Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Moldova, Bulgaria and Albania, is organized by the Romanian PM Calin Popescu-TARICEANU and Stability Pact Special Coordinator Erhard Busek.
European Commission's President Jose Manuel Barroso, Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and his counterpart for External Trade, Peter Mandelson, as well as UNMIK representatives will also attend the meeting.
The new agreement will replace the current 31 bilateral Free Trade Agreements, signed by the SEE countries.
Four of the countries that will participate in the negotiations for signing of the declaration - Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia, are already members of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA).
After the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU, CEFTA will be left only with two countries, i.e. Macedonia and Croatia.
The Central European Free Trade Agreement was signed on 21 December 1992 in Krakow in Poland and has been applied since 1 March 1993.
The purpose of the declaration was to mobilise joint efforts for the integration of participating countries in Western European institutions and, through this, to join European political, economic, security and legal systems and look for opportunities for close economic and political co-operation. This fundamental objective includes the consolidation of democracy and the market economy.

FM MITREVA CONTINUES VISIT TO POLAND

Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva, who is paying an official visit to Poland, will meet Thursday her Polish counterpart Stefan Meller.
Mitreva and Meller will sign two bilateral cooperation agreements, i.e. Readmission Agreement and Agreement for Social Insurance.
Poland is the eight EU member that will sign Readmission Agreement with Macedonia.
The Polish Parliament in June last year decided to use Macedonia's constitutional name in bilateral relations.
The biggest guaranty for the Balkan's stability is the countries' NATO and EU membership, concluded Wednesday Macedonian Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva and Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
FM Mitreva conveyed the expectations that Poland would continue to support Macedonia on the road to EU and NATO, but also thanked Kaczynski for Poland's official position that the Union enlargement process should resume.
"Macedonia works on fulfillment of conditions for facilitation of the visa regime. Macedonian citizens should feel in their daily lives that they are closer to the mutual European home", Mitreva stressed.
Kaczynski said, "Macedonia already deserves and should be treated as a European state", adding that the country could count on even stronger support from Warsaw in the integrative processes.

DEAL REACHED ON EU BUDGET 2007-2013

The Parliament and the Austrian Presidency have reached a compromise on the long-term budget for the period 2007-2013. The agreement is at 864.4 billion euro, 2 billion euros more than the Summit deal of December 2005.
After difficult negotiations, the Austrian Presidency has announced a deal with the European Parliament on the long-term financial framework 2007-2013 of the Union.
The members of the European Parliament had threatened to block the agreement reached by the EU heads of state and government during the European Council meeting in December 2005. The MEPs wanted a substantial increase (with 12 billion euro) of the 862 billion euro budget agreed by the EU-25.
In the end, the Parliament's negotiators managed to get only 2 billion euros more. The member states will have to give their final green light to this deal but Austrian finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser said he did not expect major opposition anymore from the governments.