Nikola Gruevski (Macedonian: Никола Груевски Hungarian: Nikola Gruevszki; born 31 August 1970 is a politician from North Macedonia who served as Prime Minister of the then-Macedonia from 2006 to 2016, and led the VMRO-DPMNE party from 2003 to 2017. Previously, he was Minister of Finance in the VMRO-DPMNE government led by Ljubčo Georgievski until 2002.

Under the Pržino Agreement mediated by the European Union, Gruevski agreed to resign and left his post on 18 January 2016.[2]

In May 2018 he was sentenced to two years in prison on corruption charges.[3] In November 2018 he was ordered to serve his sentence but failed to check-in with authorities and instead fled[4] to Hungary, where he sought and was granted political asylum.[5]

Gruevski has been accused of promoting the controversial identity politics called antiquization. Under his leadership the country which had pro-European and pro-NATO policy, has changed sides to pro-Russian, pro-Serbian and anti-Western one.[6][7][8][9] Gruevski has opposed to the Friendship treaty signed with Bulgaria in 2017 and the Prespa agreement signed with Greece in 2018, despite both neighboring states being NATO and EU members.