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Good driving conditions on mainly dry roads. Intensity of traffic outside urban areas increased. No long delays on border-crossings for exiting the country. From 25 June the road in Dracevo by the railway near village of Lisice will be closed for one week due to laying a new layer of asphalt. Regional road Caska-Goloznici will be temporarily closed due to ...

The former Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski was arrested on Thursday morning in Budapest and was taken before a court, which was deciding upon the request for his extradition to Macedonia filed by the Macedonian Justice Ministry. The hearing was conducted behind closed doors, in presence of Gruevski, who was cuffed due to security reasons, and the court ultimately decided to ...

The Parliament of Macedonia proceeded on Thursday with the session dedicated to the cabinet reshuffle suggested by PM Zoran Zaev. The session focuses on PM Zaev’s suggestions for new Ministers in the positions which are now vacant in the government. Zaev’ suggestions for the vacant positions are: Sadulla Duraku as Minister of Political System and Inter-ethnic Relations, Naser Nuredini as ...

The focus of attention on Macedonia’s integration in EU and start of membership negotiations has now shifted to France, after official Berlin assured that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will do all in her power to convince the Bundestag to approve the start of EU membership talks with Macedonia. The Parliamentary Assistant at the French Senate Christian Castagna says that at ...

The Vice-PM and Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska attends in Brussels the meeting of Defence Ministers of the member-states of NATO. At the sidelines of the meeting, Sekerinska met with her counterparts from several countries: Elisabetta Trenta from Italy, Margarita Robles Fernandez from Spain, Ank Bijleveld from the Netherlands, Frank Bakke-Jensen from Norway and Mariusz Błaszczak from Poland. At these meetings, ...

The Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki said in an interview for Bulgarian web portal Epicentar.bg that Goce Delcev is Bulgarian and that the state of Macedonia is in fact a second Bulgarian state in the Balkans. “There was no Macedonian state or nation before 2 August 1944. On that day, a bunch of Bulgarian Bolsheviks and traitors gathered in the cellar ...

The Parliament of Macedonia started on Wednesday the session for discussion of the cabinet reshuffle suggested by the PM Zoran Zaev. The Parliament adopted a decision for accepting of the resignations of Culture Minister Asaf Ademi, Agriculture Minister Ljupco Nikolovski, Environment Minister Sadula Duraki and the Minister in charge of Business Climate Zoran Sapuric. Despite the fact that PM Zaev ...

The Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide paid an official visit to Macedonia on Wednesday. In Skopje, Søreide held meetings with the PM Zoran Zaev, FM Nikola Dimitrov and Vice-PM for European Affairs Bujar Osmani. “We are grateful for the great support the Kingdom of Norway provides North Macedonia in the processes integration in NATO. We demonstrated ...

  The Vice-PM and Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska attended in Brussels the Meeting of Defence Ministers of NATO member-states. This is the second participation of a Macedonian minister in the meeting after that earlier this year in February, when the NATO Protocol for Accession of Macedonia was signed. “Our participation in these meetings increases our power in this council, which ...

The Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov commented on the ongoing disagreements between Bulgaria and Macedonia concerning the origin and ethnicity of revolutionary Goce Delcev. “Our hero Goce Delcev is a target of comments of different nature these days, and that is very sad, because we all know that he was a Bulgarian hero who fought and pledged for freedom of Macedonia. ...