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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 ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, the Infectious Diseases Committee proposed to the Government to introduce a curfew for the coming weekend lasting from Saturday at 7 pm to Tuesday at 5 am. Non-compliance with protection measures over the past days, primarily as a result of family gatherings, which has resulted in an increase of coronavirus cases, is the reason for the Committee’s decision. ...

According to caretaker PM Oliver Spasovski, the Government has received answers from the Infectious Diseases Committee, the State Election Commission (SEC), and the OSCE/ODIHR. They, he explained on Wednesday, expect an election date and to start preparations on the basis of that. As Spasovski added, the Committee has issued a protocol, while the SEC has informed of deadlines needed to ...

The Council of the EU adopted on Wednesday a decision to provide up to 3 billion euros of macro-financial assistance to ten enlargement and neighbourhood partners to help them cope with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial assistance will be provided in the form of loans on highly favourable terms, it was said in the press-release. Macedonia will ...

“Over the past 24 hours, 19 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed,” the Public Health Institute said on Tuesday. There were 512 coronavirus tests.  It was added that the same period had seen 16 cured patients, while four new deaths had been registered, that is, two patients from Skopje and one each from Prilep and Tetovo.  Currently, the number of ...

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 ...

SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE remain divided over the issue of elections. The former is adamant that Macedonia’s Constitution and laws require elections in June, with 21 June being the option it considers most suitable, whereas the latter is of the opinion that the process should take place at the end of the summer. However, both sides hope they will reach a ...

In front of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi confirmed that the negotiating frameworks for Skopje and Tirana would come in June. On the other hand, the reports on the reform progress of Western Balkan countries will be postponed for September. The Commissioner added that the European Commission’s focus was primarily on Skopje ...

“Over the past 24 hours, 22 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed,” the Public Health Institute said on Tuesday. There were 533 coronavirus tests.  It was added that the same period had seen 50 cured patients, while two new deaths had been registered, that is, a 78-year-old patient from Skopje, and 77- year-old patient from Tetovo. There are 382 active ...