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“We are looking forward to the EU-Western Balkans Summit next week in Slovenia. The Western Balkans is a key priority for the European Commission, the future of the region is in the EU. We discussed how to move the enlargement process forward by opening membership negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania,” EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi, who visited Skopje Wednesday, ...

A series of violations of the election rules, the premature start of the campaign, suspicions of misuse of state resources – the Anti-Corruption Commission assesses that the current course of the election process is in violation of the law and without political culture. SCPC President Biljana Ivanovska says that in the first few days there have been abuses by officials, ...

The spokespeople of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, Dusko Arsovski and Muamed Hoxha, at Wednesday’s regular press conference informed about the conclusions and decisions made at the last 108th session of the Government and answered questions of public interest. At the press conference, they announced the latest data related to the Census, and according to the State ...

Will the abuse of the visa liberalization of the citizens of the Western Balkans return visas for the North Macedonian citizens? This issue became relevant after the renowned newspaper EU Observer published a document according to which, certain member states of the Union are seriously considering the suspension of the visa-free regime due to the increasing number of people staying ...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev received the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, accompanied by the Head of the EU Delegation to Macedonia, Ambassador David Geer. At the press conference held at the end of the agenda of the one-day visit, Prime Minister Zaev stressed that North Macedonia remains strongly committed to its path to the EU. “We ...

Following the confusion that emerged with the statement of President Ursula von der Leyen about the separation of North Macedonia and Albania for the start of negotiations with the EU, the European Commission confirmed this afternoon that their position has not changed, said correspondent from Brussels. The President of the European Commission was asked Tuesday morning in Tirana about the ...

Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi believes that the proposal to establish an Inquiry Committee into the fire in the modular hospital in Tetovo is premature. According to him, an Inquiry Committee can be formed after the work of the investigative and judicial bodies is completed. “The Inquiry Committee cannot review issues that are within the competence of the investigative and judicial ...

The Ministry of Health informs, according to the data from the Institute of Public Health, in the last 24 hours, 3,512 tests were performed, and 467 new cases of COVID-19 were registered. During the same period 14 deaths have been reported. The total number of COVID-19 diagnosed persons in the country since the beginning of the epidemic is 190,463 the ...

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will arrive in Skopje on Tuesday, and the next day, on Wednesday, will arrive the European Commissioner for Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi. Among other things, the topic of talks with the country’s state leadership is expected to be the Bulgarian veto and open bilateral issues. Analyst Marko Trosanovski believes that Brussels’ ...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Monday, the first day of the campaign for the upcoming local elections, promised that as a party and coalition they will run a positive campaign that will focus on what has been done so far, but also on future plans to support local governments and a larger local economic development. “These elections are elections of ...