SkopjeDiem Macedonia in English

Macedonia will host the Ministers’ Forum for Cultural Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries in 2019, Culture Minister Asaf Ademi announced on Monday evening during an event promoting Chinese culture and cuisine at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje. Yin Lixian, China’s Ambassador to Macedonia, also attended the celebration held to observe the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. ...

Macedonia in every sense of the word belongs in the family of European nations. I hope that the citizens will seize the historic opportunity and will make a mature, courageous and responsible decision for their future and for the future of coming generations, Dejan Zidan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Slovenia, said Tuesday after a meeting with his Macedonian ...

The Agency for Audio and Audio-Visual Media Services published the first report from the monitoring of media coverage of the referendum 2018 encompassing period 10-18 September 2018. “In conditions when there were no clear and equally active lines of agitation (for as opposed to against and/or boycott), it was hard for broadcasters to secure variety of views to their audience. ...

At Tuesday’s government session ministers reviewed and accepted the information for the programme and priorities of the Austrian Chairmanship with the Council of EU, with calendar for holding informal ministerial meetings of EU. At the session, competent ministers were tasked to participate at informal meetings if invited and afterward notify the government thereof. Moreover, the MoFA was tasked with coordinating ...

A delegation consisting of President Gjorge Ivanov and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrej Zernovski has been taking part in the 73rd UN General Assembly in New York. Although the two Macedonian state officials are part of the same delegation, Zernovski says he is ignored by Ivanov. In a Facebook post, Zernovski said that Monday he sat next to the President at ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on dry roads. Moderate traffic outside urban areas. No delays at border crossings, except the necessary period for customs formalities. Landslides are possible along the roads of Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo ...

We have matured as society to face the reality – the road to EU and NATO leads through the agreement with Greece on the name and this is the reality. All world leaders starting from NATO Sec Gen Jens Stoltenberg to German Chancellor Angela Merkel have noted there is no plan B for a seat on the table where they ...

Establishing transparent procedure in the selection of members of the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (DKSK) and putting in place criteria that will separate the DKSK from politics are part of the novelties anticipated with the draft law on prevention of corruption and conflict of interests. “One of the criteria for selection of members or president of the anti-corruption ...

No politician has the mandate to negotiate over the identity of a nation. The majority of Macedonian citizens have not voted for a programme that includes constitutional revision for the purpose of changing the country’s name. Therefore, the incumbent authorities have no mandate from the people and the voters to change the identity, give up on the Diaspora, erase history ...

By voting for the referendum the Skopje citizens get to keep their identity and go to sleep as a small country in the Balkans, but wake up as NATO members, George Koumoutsakos, person in charge of foreign policy in Greek opposition New Democracy, says. In an interview with Greek Skai TV he says the neighbours have a big motive to ...