Zoran Zaev

Zoran Zaev revealed the composition of his cabinet late Sunday, which parliament is expected to approved this week. Speaker of Parliament Talat Xhaferi has set the date for the session to start on Tuesday.

The key posts are to be shared between Zaev's Social Democratic Party, SDSM, and Macedonia's main ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI.

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I didn't have much of an appetite, but everything else was good, Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday, about an informal dinner in Brussels the night before.

The gathering was organized by EU's Federica Mogherini and brought together six Western Balkans prime ministers.

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Macedonian (FYROM) PM-designate and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev said in Brussels on Wednesday that he apologized to Serbian PM and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic.

Macedonian PM-designate and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev said in Brussels on Wednesday that he apologized to Serbian PM and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic.

"I expressed my regret for the carelessness of us politicians, before, during, or after the campaign. That was a moment of my carelessness," Zaev said, according Tanjug, which cited a MIA agency report.

Starting from Tuesday, the Social Democratic leader Zoran Zaev is holding a series of meetings with his coalition partners from the three main ethnic Albanian parties to align their stances on the future ministers in his cabinet.

On Monday, Zaev confirmed he was ready to start final talks about the ministers and sounded optimistic about the outcome.

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The US didn't resolve Macedonia's crisis, it made it much worse, and the fate of the Balkans is now in jeopardy because of the latest American-brokered "deal".

ODZACI - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday he did not care about personal insults directed at him by Macedonian PM-designate Zoran Zaev, adding that his judgement would be based on actions - and Macedonia's vote on Kosovo's UNESCO membership bid.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic has accused Macedonian PM-designate Zoran Zaev of making statements eroding Belgrade-Skopje relations, and noted the Serbian authorities would treat the Macedonian authorities reciprocally.

The Social Democrats' vice president Radmila Shekerinska and the party's secretary general Oliver Spasovski are almost sure candidates for key ministerial posts in the new government led by the Social Democrat head Zoran Zaev, BIRN has found out.

The head of the ethnic Albanian Besa party in Macedonia, Bilall Kasami, on Wednesday said his party's participation in a new Social Democrat-led government will depend on whether other participants propose ministers who are entangled in corruption scandals.