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“Today, I can announce that North Macedonia will receive a COVID-19 assistance package from NATO’s new medical stockpile. This will include 60 ventilators and other urgently needed equipment worth approximately 1.4 million euros. And this comes of course in addition to the aid and support we have already delivered. This is NATO solidarity in action,” the Alliance’s Sec Gen, Jens ...

In the frames of his participation in the GLOBSEC 2020 Bratislava Forum, President Stevo Pendarovski held a meeting on Thursday with Miroslav Lajcak, EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues. As the President said on Twitter, he informed “the EU Special Representative that our country is ready to start accession negotiations with the EU ...

In the last 24 hours, 364 new COVID-19 cases have been registered, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. That figure is a record high. It was added that the same period had seen 2,140 new tests, 106 new cured patients, and three new deaths. The number of active cases in the country is 3,147. Commenting on the big number of ...

At the Police Centre in Gjorce Petrov, on Thursday, US Ambassador Kate Marie Byrnes handed over two donations to Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski a donation for the Ministry worth more than 460,000 dollars. As Spasovski explained, the first one is medical equipment and for personal protection of the Ministry’s Rapid Deployment Unit members, worth around 250,000 dollars, from the US ...

On Thursday, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski held a working meeting with the Head of the OSCE Mission, Ambassador Clemens Koja. The Minister thanked the Ambassador for the full support from the OSCE for the Ministry in the whole period of police reform. Koja, on his part, congratulated Spasovski on having headed the caretaker Cabinet, wishing him success in his second ...

There is no need for overdramatising, let diplomacy work, while the EU will do everything it can so that Skopje starts negotiations by the end of the year. This was the message sent by EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi in Skopje on Wednesday with regards to Bulgaria’s stands on Macedonia’s integration road. According to him, finding a solution is in ...

In the last 24 hours, 317 new COVID-19 cases have been registered, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. That figure is a record high. It was added that the same period had seen 1,990 new tests, 104 new cured patients, and four new deaths. The number of active cases in the country is 2,892. Among the new cases are Parking ...

The EU still has a goal to start negotiations by the end of the year even though the issue with Bulgaria over the negotiating framework for the Macedonia is still acceptable. On Tuesday, EU Enlargement Commissioner said both countries should find a mutually acceptable resolution. He added that there was work together with authorities in both Skopje and Sofia. “The ...

At its session on Tuesday, the Government decided to open borders without a PCR test for citizens of Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Macedonia’s citizens, too, will be able to travel to those countries without a negative PCR test. The decision will enter into force on 12 October. PM Zoran Zaev said the decision had been made in ...

In the last 24 hours, 225 new COVID-19 cases have been registered, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. It was added that the same period had seen 1,841 new tests, 159 new cured patients, and eight new deaths. The number of active cases in the country is 2,683. Among the new cases are Butel Mayor Velimir Smilevski, a doctor, nurse, ...