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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".

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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