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The High Representative of the European Union Josep Borrell, as well as US Ambassador to Macedonia Kate Marie Byrnes and European Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi greeted the Parliamentary election date agreement through their respective Twitter accounts. Among others, President Stevo Pendarovski and Technical PM Oliver Spasovski also welcomed this agreement, President Pendarovski saying that this is another confirmation that every ...

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 ...

Friday, Saturday and Friday have been registered 164, 196 and 162 new COVID-19 cases out of 1045, 1213 and 778 tests respectively. During the same period 26 people passed away from the virus. Most active cases are currently registered in Skopje (1210), followed by Tetovo (239), Kumanovo (221), Stip (196) and Ohrid (51). The rest of the cities and municipalities ...

President Stevo Pendarovski addressed the public saying that there is no need for a new state of emergency after the end of the current one, which ends 13 June. President Pendarovski also talked about the request to OSCE for the observation mission by MoFA which he predicts will be done within the day or the few following ones, however he ...

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 ...

Over the past 24 hours, 175 new COVID-19 cases have been registered, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. It was added that the same period had seen 971 new people tested, 18 new cured patients, and five new deaths. The number of active cases in the country is 1,687. At a press-conference that day, Minister Venko Filipce said there were ...

“It’s not easy for us either because the topic of elections has been imposed on us,” Deputy PM for European Affairs Bujar Osmani, who’s a member of DUI, said on Thursday. The Government’s decision regarding the state of emergency will be known in the next two days, according to him. VMRO-DPMNE’s stand that dealing with the coronavirus situation is the ...

The Government will fully subsidise journalists’ wages’ contributions. Together with health authorities, police, and Army members, they are on the front line of the fight against the coronavirus. According to Robert Popovski, Minister without Portfolio in charge of communications, accountability, and transparency, the majority of them took the side of ethics and the profession, covered the situation accurately, and fought ...

The European Commission has recommended for EU members to approve opening of borders to Western Balkans (WB) starting from 1 July, considering the region’s good epidemiological situation. “Today the Commission recommends to Schengen Member States and Schengen Associated States to lift internal border controls by 15 June 2020 and to prolong the temporary restriction on non-essential travel into the EU ...

The ODIHR election observation mission (EOM) is ready to resume its activities related to the elections in Macedonia. However, it’s waiting for an official decision on the election date. The ODIHR says for Kanal 5 it is aware of the difficulty of the activities they will need to carry out during the pandemic. “We will do or best, but we’re ...