Balgarianovinite.com The government of North Macedonia has informed its NATO and EU allies about an alleged attempt by the opposition to destabilize the country during a Monday protest in Skopje, where law students of Albanian descent demanded that their final exam be conducted in Albanian, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski announced after attending the start of a street reconstruction in the Aerodrom municipality of Skopje Tuesday.
“Yesterday we saw a large number of opposition activists at the protest, giving it a political dimension. We informed our NATO and EU allies about this as an attempt by the opposition to destabilize us in a certain way, and I believe this did not meet the approval of senior representatives of the international community,” Mickoski said.
He recalled that the law on the use of languages has been challenged before the Constitutional Court regarding its provisions on the judiciary and the rule of law. According to him, the Venice Commission has expressed a negative opinion on bilingualism in the judicial system, stating that “the State does not have sufficient resources to implement it, and therefore the rule of law is not guaranteed”.
“That is why they strongly recommend returning to the language law from 2008 or 2009,” Mickoski added, noting that a commission of constitutional law experts has been formed to find a solution that is both constitutional and aligned with international standards.
In a Facebook post, former Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani wrote that he had also informed representatives of the international community about attempts by the government “to misrepresent the nature of the student protests by labeling them as politically motivated and creating an inaccurate perception of the reality in the country”.
“I emphasized that these attempts to mislead our international partners do not reflect the real concerns of the students, which are directly related to the exercise of existing rights,” Osmani wrote.
According to him, the Venice Commission’s March 2025 opinion on the Language Law does not address restrictions on language rights or refer to domestic legislation. Instead, it focuses on practical aspects of implementing the law, such as costs and logistical support, “emphasizing that these are minimum standards that must be met”.
On Monday, in central Skopje and in front of the Ministry of Justice, law students from the University of Tetovo, the Mother Teresa University, and the University of South-East Europe staged a protest demanding that their legal qualification exam also be available in Albanian, the language in which they were educated. The protest sparked numerous expert and political reactions in the country.
The Ministry of Justice of North Macedonia posted on its Facebook page that the exam “is conducted in accordance with the applicable legal framework”.
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