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Poor driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly wet roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

The PM Zoran Zaev remains optimistic that this June the EU will determine a date for start of the membership negotiations with Macedonia. “Some media report that this decision may as well be postponed for September or October 2019. However, I can tell you that our government completed the entire Plan 18 of reforms which brought our country closer to ...

The leader of the Greek opposition Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview for Belgian newspaper “Le Soir” that once his party comes to power in Greece, they will do all to “soothe” the consequences over Greece from the Prespa Agreement. “This agreement is extremely problematic for Greece, because it gives ground to the irredentism and nationalism in the rather sensitive ...

The PM Zoran Zaev met on Thursday in Skopje the German Parliamentary Secretary of State for the Interior, Building and Community Stephan Mayer, joined by the German Ambassador to Macedonia Thomas Gerberich. At the meeting, Zaev shared with Meyer his impressions of his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. “The friendly relations between Germany and North Macedonia are ...

The Presidential candidates of the government and the opposition, Stevo Pendarovski and Gordana Siljanovska Davkova had a face-off in the show “Only Truth” on Kanal 5 TV. In their duel, the presidential candidates of the 2019 presidential election tackled several issues, with both of them expecting the citizens to grant them their support and votes. “In this election, the citizens ...

The Governmental Spokesperson Mile Bosnjakovski commented on behalf of the government on Thursday the incident in Ohrid when a folk dance ensemble from Kosovo hoisted a 15-metre long Albanian flag over the wall of the Samuel Fortress. “The laws clearly define where, when and how a flag of a foreign country can be shown in public and hoisted. Any violation ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

The French government published on Tuesday its Strategy for West Balkans. The publication follows the informal summit of EU and West Balkans in Berlin, co-organised by the French President Emanuel Macron, who at the moment opposes the enlargement of the EU with Macedonia and Albania. The analyses of the strategy confirm that the countries of the West Balkan (Albania, Bosnia ...

European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn tweeted on Wednesday that now is the time to finalise the historic project of European unification by integrating the Western Balkans. “This vision came true and now is the time to look forward and to finalise the historic project of European unification by integrating the Western Balkans. I am sure ...

The PM Zoran Zaev remains optimistic that the EU will determine a date for start of membership negotiations with Macedonia this June. “I have just arrived from Berlin following meetings with German chancellor Merkel and French president Macron. We have big friends in Europe. This year, the country not will become a NATO member, but it will also launch accession ...