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Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi met on Saturday in Skopje President of the Turkish Parliament Mustafa Sentop. At the meeting, the interlocutors exchanged positive opinions about the bilateral relations between Macedonia and Turkey. “We are very glad to see your country joining NATO in the following period. Turkey is great supporter of North Macedonia and its progress, which is why our ...

SDSM Sec Gen Ljupco Nikolovski revealed on Saturday that SDSM will make the final decision on the candidate for Caretaker PM in the technical government on Friday. “On Friday, 27 December the central and the executive board of SDSM will assemble around 06:00 p.m. in order to make the final decision about this matter. Among the candidates for the position ...

Deputy Foreign Minister Andrej Zernovski took part on Friday in the 4th meeting of Ministers of the Adriatic Trilateral (Albania, Croatia and Montenegro) which took place in Zadar, Croatia. As the Macedonian Foreign Ministry reports, the enlargement of the EU with West Balkan countries under the Croatian presidency with the EU was one of the main topics of discussions. On ...

With 65 votes in favour and 23 against, the Parliament of Macedonia adopted on Sunday the State Budget for 2020 and the Law on Implementation of the State Budget. The budget for 2020 is projected at 3.9 billion euros, incomes are projected at 3.6 billion euros, expenditures at 3.9 billion euros, capital investments planned for 2020 are 23.6 billion denars, ...

Poor driving conditions are reported throughout the country on mostly 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 ...

A Macedonian delegation headed by PM Zoran Zaev started on Tuesday an official visit to the Czech Republic. In Prague, Zaev was welcomed by his Czech Counterpart Adrej Babis, with whom he held a bilateral meeting, followed by a joint press conference of the two PMs. “We are encouraged by the constant pledges of our friends within the EU for ...

A statement of the Bulgarian Co-president of the Macedonian-Bulgarian Commission on Historical Issues Angel Dimitrov in which he claims that the Macedonian language originates from a group of local Bulgarian dialects with borrowed letters from the Serbian alphabet, once again stirred up the public in Macedonia and Bulgaria. “The truth is that around 1945, two commissions have assembled in order ...

The Bulgarian Co-president of the Macedonian-Bulgarian Commission on Historical Issues Angel Dimitrov said that it is uncertain whether the Commission will proceed with its work, adding that the Macedonian part of the commission reached a one-sided decision to temporarily suspend all of its activities. “This decision was reached without any consultations with the Bulgarian team of the Commissions. Practically, they ...

In the annual report of UNDP for the Human development index in 2019, which was presented on Tuesday in Skopje, Macedonia has been ranked 82nd out of 189 world countries. According to the UNDP, Macedonia marks progress in the human development in all categories, but still is one of the countries with lowest growth rates in Europe. According to the ...

The French Ambassador to Macedonia Christian Thimonier does not believe that the French “No” for start of EU membership talks with Macedonia is not a direct hit by Paris against Skopje. “This is not a hit. It is not up to us all just to open the negotiations, we need to conduct them successfully too. For that, North Macedonia needs ...