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Fiscal decentralisation starts in Macedonia

11.7.2007 by Lupo.

Fiscal decentralisation starts in Macedonia 11/07/2007 Out of 85 municipalities in Macedonia, around 30 are ready to take over financial management in the areas of education, culture, and social affairs, according to government estimates. By Marina Stojanovska for Southeast European Times in Skopje –11/07/07 Once the municipalities get the green light, they will take over financial responsibility. [Tomislav Georgiev] Two years after Macedonian authorities started transferring responsibility to the local level, the second phase of the country’s decentralisation plan is under way. Earlier this month, five municipalities, out of a total 85, asked to take over financial responsibility in several areas. The municipalities — Veles, Ohrid, Gevgelija, Sopiste and Aracinovo — say they are prepared to handle the salaries of employees in schools, kindergartens, nursing homes and local cultural institutions, beginning in September. The administration in Skopje says it is committed to pushing the process forward. “All municipalities that have applied and fulfil the conditions move to the second phase of decentralisation,” Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said after a meeting with local self-government representatives. “It is in our interest, maybe more than in the municipalities’ interest, that this process is completed as soon as possible,” he added. Out of the 85 municipalities however, only 30 are ready to assume financial management in their in educational, cultural and social sectors, according to government estimates. Municipal authorities say that for fiscal decentralisation to be implemented successfully, the government should increase the proportion of VAT and personal tax that goes to municipalities. They are also calling for land management to be placed under municipal authority. “We will wait for the effects of the new property tax and communal duties, and if there are no improvements of the conditions in municipalities, we will request a higher percentage of the VAT,” Association of Local Self-Government Units President Andrej Petrov said……………….
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2007/07/11/feature-02

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Fighting For Kosovo Independence With Guns

11.7.2007 by admin.

Fighting For Kosovo Independence With Guns

UNION OF ALBANIANS
Fighting For Kosovo Independence With Guns
Albanian intellectuals called for the unification of all Albanians. They see Kosovo’s independence as the precursor of a national union.
Ivona Barić
Hina
Photo: archive
Albanian intellectuals from Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo gathered over the weekend in Tetovo and are advocating the unification of all Albanians. The representative of the Macedonian assembly Fazli Veliu announced that he and the members of the former so-called National Liberation Army would help Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) to fight for Kosovo independence with weapons if necessary, reports Macedonian press on Tuesday.Reporting the writing of the media in the Albanian language in Macedonia about the gathering of the Albanian intellectuals that took place last weekend, Skopje daily newspaper Vreme writes that they called for the unification of Albanians from all regions and assessed that Kosovo’s independence was only the precursor of the national unification.

On Tuesday, Skopje daily newspaper Dnevnik reported the statement made by Fazli Veliu, representative of the opposition party Democratic Union for Integration in Macedonia’s parliament and president of the veterans’ association ONA, which had started an armed conflict with Macedonian defense forces in 2001, saying that, along with the Kosovo UCK, he would fight for Kosovo’s independence.

“If the resolution of the Kosovo issue keeps being postponed,” Veliu threatened, “very soon, we will join UCK soldiers, first at big protests in order to internationalize the issue and then, if necessary, we will win Kosovo’s independence with weapons.” He thinks that he would have to gather all 10,000 ONA members who fought in Macedonia in 2001, writes Dnevnik.

Published: July 10, 2007 18:52h

http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=61069

Fazli Veliu-DUI is identisch with the Albanian Mafia and together with Bin Laden friend, Ali Ahmeti 

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