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Artan Grubi, Minister of Political System and Inter-Community Relations, who’s also the First Deputy PM, held a meeting on Tuesday with the Head of the OSCE Mission, Ambassador Clemens Koja. They exchanged opinions about Macedonia’s priorities as a member of NATO, as well as about the Government’s commitment during the four-year term. Grubi welcomed the OSCE’s commitment to helping institutions ...

On Tuesday, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski held a meeting with Slovenia’s new Ambassador, Milan Predan. According to Mickoski, Predan’s term will solidify the friendly relations between Skopje and Ljubljana even more. Predan and the opposition leader voiced satisfaction with the excellent bilateral relations and successful cooperation between Macedonia and Slovenia. Views were exchanged also on current developments and situations in ...

PM Zoran Zaev doesn’t expect Bulgaria to be an obstacle on Macedonia’s road to EU membership negotiations. He said on Monday that a joint solution would be found. The PM once again stated that identity issues were a right of self-determination. “Bulgaria is a European country, and I believe that in the talks themselves, in the documents itself, it is ...

In the last 24 hours, 83 new COVID-19 cases have been registered, the Health Ministry said on Monday. It was added that the same period had seen 539 new tests, 146 new cured patients, and four new deaths. Commenting on the measures adopted by the Government, PM Zoran Zaev urged everyone to observe them, adding that they had been adopted ...

Dry road conditions are reported across the country. There is moderate traffic outside urban areas. No delays are reported on border crossings on the Macedonian side to enter and exit the country. Motorists are advised to drive carefully, adjust their speed to weather conditions and follow traffic rules, signs and signals, Auto-Moto Association of Macedonia said. Landslides are possible along ...

In the last 24 hours, 191 new COVID-19 cases have been registered, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. It was added that the same period had seen 1,350 new tests, 77 new cured patients, and three new deaths. The number of active cases in the country is 2,693. Friday and Saturday had seen 468 new COVID-19 cases, 10 new deaths, ...

The Macedonian language and people are guaranteed in the Skopje-Sofia deal, PM Zoran Zaev says. The focus is on quickly overcoming the misunderstandings with the eastern neighbour, according to him. In Sofia, the first stage of the proposal of Defence Minister Krasimir Karakachanov for 24 May, Ss Cyril and Methodius Day, to be Bulgarian Literacy Day has been successfully completed. ...

Dry road conditions are reported throughout the country. There is moderate traffic outside urban areas. No delays are reported on border crossings. Landslides are possible along the routes of Katlanovo-Veles, Mavrovo-DebarStruga, Vinica-Berovo and Kochani-Delchevo. Motorists are advised to drive carefully, adjust their speed to weather conditions and follow traffic rules, signs and signals.

“VMRO-DPMNE is considering all possibilities. All options of the party’s bodies and organs will be considered for a final decision on impeachment of President Stevo Pendarovski,” the party’s spokesperson, Dimce Arsovski, said on Thursday. He once again pointed to the party’s stand on the President. “We said a long time ago that Pendarovski was an accomplice of PM Zoran Zaev’s ...

According to Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva, good-neighbourly relations are a fundamental European condition and criterion for EU membership. She adds that Skopje has to comply with and implement its treaty with Sofia. The Goce Delcev issue, Zaharieva points out, is one of the many that should be resolved. “We appealed for us to return to implementation of the deal ...