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Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Mid-intensity snowing is going to happen around Krusevo, Mavrovo, Struga and the mountain passes Gjavato and Pletvar, and with lesser intensity around Straza, Preseka, Debar and Kicevo. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, ...

Stevo Pendarovski is the joint presidential candidate supported by 31 parties led by SDSM and the ruling coalition. PM Zoran Zaev described on Friday the decision was historic, adding that “Macedonians, Serbs, Turks, Vlachs, Romani, Bosniaks and everyone else” had once again united. According to him, 31 political parties have shown national interests are above party ones. “All of us ...

On Sunday, VMRO-DPMNE’s Union of Women held its Annual Conference. “Unfortunately or fortunately, the battle for an identity isn’t over because one cannot erase a people with a pen,” Blagica Lasovska, President of the Union, said, adding that the identity was deeply rooted. In that regard, she pointed out that the identity would outlive “these injustices”. VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski ...

FM Nikola Dimitrov delivered an address at the Fourth Delphi Economic Forum in Greece. “There is nothing more natural than our two countries being friends, being close, opening the future,” he said. As Dimitrov added, compared to his first visit to Athens on 14 June 2017, now, after the Prespa Agreement, he has more friends in Greece. On the sidelines ...

Judicial reforms and dealing with corruption are the key goals that the Government should achieve on its path to EU membership. The leader of the seven-member delegation of MEPs, Tunne Kelam, said on Friday that those were the main conditions for the European Council to make in June a decision on a start of accession negotiations. As he added, it’s ...

On Friday, Jess Baily’s term as US Ambassador to Macedonia officially ended. He left Skopje on Friday. In a tweet, he thanked the country for its hospitality, friendship and kindness. The US Embassy, on its official Facebook page, wrote: “This morning, Ambassador Baily officially ended his assignment to North Macedonia. From everyone at the Embassy, we thank him for his ...

French diplomat and ex-EUSR to Skopje Alain Le Roy says that the brave decisions made by Macedonia’s leaders and Prespa Agreement have enabled the country’s progress on the NATO road. Regarding ratification of the Accession Protocol by his country, he says he has no information. “I don’t know whether there is a concrete date when the NATO Protocol would be ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Mid-intensity snowing is going to happen around Krusevo, Mavrovo, Struga and the mountain passes Gjavato and Pletvar, and with lesser intensity around Straza, Preseka, Debar and Kicevo. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, ...

The State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) opened on Thursday 42 new cases as a result of suspicions of nepotism.  The list includes relatives of current and former state officials, MPs, ministers, mayors, ambassadors, directors of public institutions, heads of state companies and agencies, as well as members and Judicial Council members, secretaries general and advisers. All of ...

The Directorate for Execution of Sanctions has conducted own insight and took minutes for the attacks in the Skopje Prison on former ministers Mile Janakieski and Spiro Ristovski, who are suspected of involvement in the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament. In its recommendations, the Directorate requests appropriate accountability for all official persons from the Prison that let the incident ...