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According to the survey headlined “Western Balkans Regional Poll”, conducted on behalf of the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) Centre for Insights in Survey Research by IPSOS, 34% of citizens consider Serbia to be the most important ally, followed by the US, 17%, Turkiye, 12%, Russia, 8%, and Albania, 5%. When it comes to the issue of most important threat, 23% ...

Suto Orizari Mayor Kurto Dudus has been charged with unscrupulous operation within the service (Article 353 of the Criminal Code). As the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday, in 2020 and this year, he broke Article 126 of the Law on Protection of Children by appointing heads of a kindergarten even though they were not kindergarten employees. He did so even ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on wet roads in some places. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed ...

The activities of presidential candidates have continued. On Tuesday, SDSM-endorsed Stevo Pendarovski was in Sveti Nikole, Caska, and Veles. As he pointed out, among the reasons why North Macedonia must resume the EU integration path is because the children deserve to have a happier life, higher salaries when they grow up, and a quality health sector. “I know citizens will ...

The SDSM-VMRO-DPMNE accusations over the presidential campaign have continued. VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski asked on Monday why Stevo Pendarovski and Bogdanka Kuzeska of the presidential candidate’s election HQ hadn’t reacted while the Pendarovski supporter said regarding VMRO-DPMNE’s candidate, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, that “a grandma doesn’t make a bride”. Mickoski added that Pendarovski had become a prototypical “Balkan misogynist”. The same ...

DUI has said that regardless of the position of VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM, the next President will be elected in Parliament. “DUI and the European Front remind the two parties that as the idea for a first PM from the ethnic Albanian community materialised, that will be the case also with the first President from the ethnic Albanian community,” Ali Ahmeti’s ...

North Macedonia’s Government said on Tuesday that the initiative for co-sponsorship of the Srebrenica draft-resolution hadn’t been discussed at a session. Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, when he had made the statement the previous day, added that he didn’t expect the co-sponsorship to negatively impact relations with Serbia. “We condemn genocide and ask for the killing of over 8,000 civilians to ...

Croatia’s authorities have taken away the passport of the former head of the Interior Ministry’s Fifth Directorate, Goran Grujevski. According to Sitel information, he is not allowed to leave Croatia even though he was released on Saturday because he has asylum in Greece. Additionally, Croatia will request documentation from North Macedonia’s Justice Ministry about what Grujevski is wanted on an ...

Greek diplomat Michalis Rokas has been nominated by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell as the EU Ambassador to North Macedonia, the European External Action Service (EEAS) said on Tuesday. “He is currently serving as EU Ambassador to Malaysia. Mr Rokas has previously served as Head of Division for support to Delegations in the EEAS,” it was added, inter alia, ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the ...