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Dry road conditions are reported throughout the country. There is moderate traffic outside urban areas. No delays are reported on border crossings. As of Nov. 15, 2020, winter equipment in vehicles is mandatory until Mar. 15, 2021 regardless of the weather. Landslides are possible along the routes of Katlanovo-Veles, Mavrovo-DebarStruga, Vinica-Berovo and Kochani-Delchevo. Motorists are advised to drive carefully, adjust ...

No demand of the opposition, including the one for fingerprints, is part of the new draft law concerning the census. There haven’t been significant changes to the articles either. PM Zoran Zaev says such machines will be procured from abroad if there are donations from embassies. He is adamant that the census will be held in the spring of 2021, ...

Government employees will be tested for COVID-19 through a private laboratory. The General and Common Affairs Sector has signed a deal with a private laboratory for 260 PCR tests, each of whom costs 1,900 denars (around 30 euros). The press service says it has achieved the lowest price. The deal was signed 12 days ago. 8,000 euros in budget funds ...

Another eight members of the terrorist group that was planning suicide attacks in Macedonia have been detained. Five are from Kumanovo, while the rest are from Skopje. They will be charged with terrorist organisation. Searches were carried out at several locations in both cities. One of the detainees, as a member of the Islamic State group, participated in the battlefields ...

Dry road conditions are reported throughout the country. There is moderate traffic outside urban areas. No delays are reported on border crossings. As of Nov. 15, 2020, winter equipment in vehicles is mandatory until Mar. 15, 2021 regardless of the weather. Landslides are possible along the routes of Katlanovo-Veles, Mavrovo-DebarStruga, Vinica-Berovo and Kochani-Delchevo. Motorists are advised to drive carefully, adjust ...

In an interview with Kanal 5 TV, PM Zoran Zaev says that the COVID-19 vaccines will most likely arrive in March. According to him, that will be so regardless of whether they are through the COVAX system, from Bulgaria, or from Greece. As the PM adds, money has been allocated for the vaccines. The PM also talked about the Skopje-Sofia ...

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski says in an interview with Alfa TV that Macedonia will be the last country that will get COVID-19 vaccines. As he points out, the Government is endangering the health of citizens. “The public should know when those vaccines will come. I have been asking that question for several days, but nobody has been giving an answer,” ...

PM Zoran Zaev has received a letter from Joseph Biden. In it, US President-elect thanks Zaev for the congratulations on his election. On his behalf and on that of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, with the gratitude for the congratulations, he highlights that he is taking office amidst exceptionally serious global challenges – from the coronavirus to climate change – that transcend ...

North Macedonia will be a country where everyone that has broken or will break the law will be held accountable, Justice Minister Bojan Maricic said on Friday, presenting the work of the first 100 days of his term. According to him, all prosecutors or judges responsible for illegal activities will be filtered out of the judicial system. There will be ...

The unresolved issues with Bulgaria caused failure in terms of adopting the negotiations framework and starting membership negotiations, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said in the report at the Foreign Policy Committee. According to him, so far, numerous draft memoranda, non-papers, and declarations have been exchanged to try to find a solution to the Sofia issue. Osman said that next year, ...