Investments estimated at MKD 16,7 billion (EUR 271,6 million) are envisaged in the 2018 annual program for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and maintenance of state roads of the Public State Roads Enterprise, adopted by the government at yesterday’s session. “The government will continue to make intensive efforts to construct and overhaul road infrastructure in a bid […]
The average monthly net wage paid per employee in November, compared to the same month in 2016, is up by 3.6 percent, says the State Statistical Office. The average monthly net wage paid per employee in November was MKD 23,196 (EUR 377). This increase is caused by the increase of the average monthly net wage paid […]
Deputy PM for EU Affairs Bujar Osmani met Tuesday with the Sweden’s State Secretary to the Minister of EU Affairs and Trade Oscar Stenström and discussed bilateral cooperation, Macedonia’s EU integration process and Sweden’s support to the EU enlargement process of the Western Balkan countries. Osmani showed gratitude for the active role of Sweden in […]
As journalists in Macedonia are doing their job in unsafe conditions, subjected to beatings, kidnappings and insults, institutions have failed to fine not a single assailant, shows the 2017 report on freedom of the media and safety of the journalists in Macedonia. At Monday’s presentation of the report, Naser Selmani, president of the Association of […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Dimitrov held on Monday a meeting with the ambassadors of the EU countries serving in Macedonia. FM Dimitrov informed the EU ambassadors about current developments and the course of the reforms undertaken in Macedonia, the Foreign Ministry (MoFA) said in a press release. Dimitrov reaffirmed the commitment to the opening […]
The UN mediator for the naming dispute between Greece and Macedonia Matthew Nimetz intends to visit Athens and Skopje in the next ten days and to discuss the issue, Greece’s state broadcaster ERT reports. Media outlet told that UN mediator has expressed optimism and considered that dispute over the name of Macedonia could be resolved […]
– The Enlargement Strategy, entitled “The Credible Enlargement Perspective for the Western Balkans” will be presented on February 6 during the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the portal European Western Balkans is exclusively learned. As confirmed for our portal in Brussels, the College of European Commission, chaired by President Jean-Claude Juncker, will […]
Ahead of the World Economic Forum, an informal conference for the ministers of culture from the signatory states of the European Cultural Convention and from the observer states of the Council of Europe is taking place on January 20-21 in Davos, Switzerland. The meeting will focus on the Davos Declaration, which champions the concept of […]
Thousands of people, carrying banners with messages ‘Macedonia was, will be Greek’; ‘The name is our soul’, took Sunday to the streets Thessaloniki to ‘defend the name’, MIA reports. Hardline clerics, far-right leaders and Greek diaspora groups have called for the protest against the use of term ‘Macedonia’ in any solution to Athens-Skopje name dispute. […]
French Ambassador Christian Thimonier believes he isn’t the only one who has failed to understand the law of languages because ‘it is a very complicated text, at least in terms of its content, as well as consequences. ‘On the other hand, to be completely honest, there is a room for improvement of the text itself, […]
Under the title ‘If there is an opportunity for a solution, it would be a national stupidity not to make good use of it’ Sunday’s edition of the Greek newspaper Ethnos conveys an interview of Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras related to Athens-Skopje name dispute, MIA reports from Athens. ‘The solution would mean a mutually […]
‘Macedonia is Greece’ – reads a billboard hanged over a stage in downtown Thessaloniki where a long-announced protest against the use of term ‘Macedonia’ in any solution to Athens-Skopje name dispute is set to commence at 14:00h local time. The police have tightened the security measures for the protest, as well as the counter-protest of […]
Greek media keep offering extensive, detailed reports on the latest developments related to Athens-Skopje name dispute, MIA reports from the capital of Greece. The front pages of Sunday’s editions present analyses of the latest round of name negotiations in New York, upcoming meeting of the Macedonian, Greek Prime Ministers, Zoran Zaev and Alexisi Tsipras respectively, […]
The Republic of Macedonia has continuously been proving itself as a reliable strategic partner and ally to NATO, it is necessary to receive the long-deserved membership in the Alliance, which will contribute to stability, security and prosperity in the entire region in a long run, President Gjorge Ivanov said Thursday at the meeting with NATO […]
It has been almost four years since a NATO Secretary General paid a visit to Macedonia. Jens Stoltenberg is set to arrive this evening in Skopje, where he is scheduled to meet with Macedonia’s top state officials and to deliver an address in Parliament. Irrespective of the message he is going to convey to the […]
The Macedonian government and the International Criminal Police Organization – Interpol will sign an agreement on recognizing the Interpol Travel Document as agreed on Tuesday in Lyon by Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and Interpol’s Secretary General Jürgen Stock. Under the agreement, Macedonia will recognize the travel document used by authorized officials only when carrying out official duties on […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is to pay a visit to Macedonia on Jan. 17-18. Stoltenberg is scheduled to address MPs in the Macedonian Parliament on Jan. 18 (Thursday) at a plenary session. He is expected to meet with President Gjorge Ivanov, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska, VMRO-DPMNE […]
80 kilometers of pipeline – the longest ever – will be constructed this year in Macedonia after EUR 40 million has been singled out from the national budget. Gasification is one of the top priorities of the government, which is intensively seeking ways for gas pipelines to reach all municipalities in Macedonia, Minister of Transport […]
Long-term friendly relations between Bulgaria and Macedonia and a stable foundation for cooperation in the region based on European values is guaranteed by the Agreement on Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation, which was ratified yesterday by Macedonia’s Parliament. This was concluded by the prime ministers of Bulgaria and Macedonia – Boyko Borisov and Zoran Zaev […]
Macedonia is ranked as ‘partly free’ by the US-based non-governmental organization (NGO) Freedom House, which released Tuesday its report “Freedom in the World – Democracy in Crisis”. In the report, Macedonia is singled out as ‘a country to watch’ in 2018 because ‘it may experience important developments in the coming year.’ “A democratically elected, ethnically inclusive […]
