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Vatican Enters Dispute over North Macedonia’s Mother Teresa Memorial
The mayor of Skopje's municipality of Centar, Sasa Bogdanovic, said on Monday that a large unfinished memorial complex dedicated to Skopje-born Mother Teresa should not be completed but erased from the city's urban plan because it blocks an important pedestrian street leading to the main square.
BIRN Database Shows Macedonia Mayors Failed to Deliver
The mayors of Macedonia's 80 municipalities, plus the capital, Skopje, over the last four years delivered less than half the capital projects they promised, a new BIRN database, "Municipalities Uncovered," shows.
The database analyzes the municipal budgets for capital investments as well as their overall budgets from 2013 to 2016.
Macedonia Special Prosecution Raises First Indictments
Macedonia's Special Prosecution, SJO, tasked with probing high-level crime and corruption, on Thursday said it was raising its first criminal indictments.
Fourteen persons are indicted for "enticement and carrying out a criminal act against public order", while the other case concerns seven people employed in the secret police, for "illegal destruction of documentation".
Macedonians Argue Over Missing Albanian Statues
Macedonia's junior ruling party, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, says the main ethnic Macedonian parties should stop arguing and prevaricating and erect long-promised monuments to Albanian figures as part of the government-funded Skopje 2014 revamp.
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Macedonian Capital Splurges on Festive Glitter
Based on public procurement contracts, the City of Skopje is expected to spend at least ?430,000 on festive glitter for the New Year holidays, of a total sum of ?720,000 spent by all of Macedonia's municipalities together.
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Macedonia Mall Referendum Fails to Meet Target
A first-ever local referendum in Macedonia, on the future of a famous mall in Skopje, appeared to have failed on Sunday after only 40 per cent of residents of the municipality of Centar cast ballots.
A 50-plus threshold was needed for the vote to be pronounced successful.
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Macedonia Opposition: PM 'Ordered Attack on Mayor'
At their 23rd press conference in recent weeks on the subject of alleged government wiretapping, the opposition Social Democrats on Sunday presented covertly-recorded tapes that they say prove that Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski was behind unrest in Skopje's opposition-governed municipality of Centar in June 2013.
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Referendum Kicks Off Over Iconic Macedonian Mall
After the opposition-run municipality of Centar in Skopje granted campaigners' request for a local referendum on the mall, the "I Love GTC" campaign has 20 days to persuade people to vote against the plan to give it a radically new facade.
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Macedonian PM Accused of Real-Estate Corruption
The opposition Social Democrats held a press conference on Sunday to reveal a tenth batch of alleged wiretapped conversations, claiming that they show Gruevski's interests in acquiring land for construction land in the capital Skopje and in altering legal permits so that it can be more profitable.
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New Tapes Highlight Chicanery in Macedonian Local Poll
Top officials from Macedonia's ruling VMRO-DPMNE party did every unlawful activity they could think of in order to win the local election in 2013 in the municipality of Centar in Skopje, the mayor of the municipality, Andrej Zernovski, claimed on Thursday.