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Defence Minister Slavjanka Petrovska said that the Defence Ministry and the government have so far not made any decision for deploying troops on the territory of the Eastern Block of NATO. “As a NATO member-state, North Macedonia is ready to share the burden with the rest of the Alliance, but so far we have not resorted to deployment of troops ...

EU Ambassador to Skopje David Geer said during a visit to Tetovo that the current military situation in Ukraine accents even more the necessity of enlargement of the EU and the integration of North Macedonia. “North Macedonia and Albania have fulfilled all conditions to start the accession negotiations, and the EU wants to open these negotiations as soon as possible, ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani stated in a briefing with journalists that official Skopje and Sofia have brought their positions concerning the open bilateral issues closer to each other, but are still far from reaching agreement. “It is very important for both sides to reach a mutually acceptable solution so the EU enlargement processes can continue, especially now amidst the ...

second anniversary of the accession of North Macedonia in NATO as the Alliance’s 30th member-state. “Exactly two years ago, we realised one of our greatest strategic goals as a country and were fully integrated in NATO. Today, amidst the greatest crisis in Europe since World War II, we can see that we’ve made the right decision, because in a moment ...

TV21 came out with unofficial results from the 2021 Population Census in North Macedonia, citing sources from within the State Statistical Office (SSO). According to the unofficial results TV21 published, in North Macedonia the population at the moment is 1.8 million, or 2.1 million if the citizens living in the diaspora are counted, while the total number of citizens which ...

The Health Ministry reports that over the past weekend a total number of 742 cases of COVID-19 were registered in the country, of which 322 on Friday, 232 on Saturday and 188 on Sunday. The Health Ministry also registered 648 patients recovered from COVID-19 infection (308 on Friday, 221 on Saturday and 119 on Sunday), as well as 15 deaths ...

EU Ambassador David Geer reaffirmed European Union’s position that they wishe the opening of negotiations for North Macedonia and Albania’s EU membership as soon as possible. “It is clear that we want to see the opening of accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania as soon as possible. We welcome the efforts of Skopje and Sofia to resolve bilateral issues ...

“SDSM is hiding behind DUI when it comes to changing the election model with one constituency,” said at Parliament Dajanco Eftimov, MP from VMRO-DPMNE, while Levica believes that SDSM is blocking the amendments to the Electoral Code, although in 2016 it promised single election unit. MP Snezana Kaleska-Vanceva from SDSM emphasizes that the party still believes that one constituency is ...

Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, until now, according to the information of the Ministry of Interior, 1,924 Ukrainian citizens have entered the country, and 1,365 have been registered to leave the country in the same period, confirmed government spokesperson Dusko Arsovski. So far, as he pointed out in response to a journalist question at the press conference at ...

Without announcement and explanation, the Government withdrew from the parliamentary procedure the draft Law on Civil Registry, which would enable a declarative change of gender in personal documents with a notary statement. The discussion in the Parliament regarding these proposed changes did not even start, and VMRO-DPMNE reacted that they open Pandora’s Box. The Ministry of Justice, which is the ...