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On Thursday, DUI President Ali Ahmeti received a Doctor Honoris Causa from State University of Tetovo. At the ceremony, the Minister of Political System and Inter-Community Relations, Artan Grubi, who’s also the first Deputy PM and part of Ahmeti’s party, praised Ahmeti. As he said, the nation rarely produces to persons such as the DUI leader, who has dedicated his ...

The Interior Ministry has already started to react to owners of weekend houses that plan to lease them during the holidays so that they know what may await them. “All plans for strengthened controls have already been drawn up,” Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski said on Thursday. He added that police officers would have a lot of work, but the health ...

On Thursday, PM Zoran Zaev held a meeting with the newly-appointed Ambassador of Japan, Hironori Sawada. The diplomat congratulated Zaev on the Government’s dealing with the healthcare situation in the country, as well as on the successful steps with regards to the EU membership path and NATO integration. Japan supports North Macedonia’s EU integrations, the Government said in the press-release. ...

Nobody from today’s generation of politicians has the right to reach deals or negotiate on the language and identity, according to President Stevo Pendarovski. As he said in Wednesday’s address to Parliament, if the price of EU accession is giving up on the identity and language, that’s an unacceptable condition for every Macedonian. Also, the President added that though there ...

SDSM praised on Wednesday President Stevo Pendarovski’s address in Parliament, describing him as an ally in overcoming all obstacles and reaching solutions ensuring a better life. The party’s Parliamentary Group Coordinator, Jovan Mitreski, welcomed, as he said, the fact that Pendarovski defends the state position in the process to ensure the country’s European future, as well is in finding solutions ...

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva has once again presented the stand that her country doesn’t deny the Macedonians’ identity and language. In her view, it is the other way around, that is, they deny the Bulgarians’ right. In an interview with Die Welt, she says that over the past 10 years, 88,450 citizens have obtained Bulgarian citizenship on the basis ...

The conclusions concerning enlargement with the changes demanded by Sofia were officially confirmed in Brussels on Wednesday by the Committee of Permanent Representatives. As MIA reports, the Bulgarian demands regarding the “misinterpretation of history” and use of the whole constitutional name of the country were accepted. This is considered success of the German EU Presidency, which had risked being left ...

Over 90% of students are part of the online education process successfully, Education and Science Minister Mila Carovska said on Wednesday. Less than 1% of students and teachers have the coronavirus. The reforms in the primary education sector provide for annulment of the history subject, which will be part of the social sciences ones and studied alongside geography and civic ...

There will be no New Year’s Eve celebrations as new more restrictive measures accepted by the Government, but the day parties in the pre-New Year’s period will be able to squeeze through in the period until 6 pm, when the hospitality venues will need to close in the next five weeks. Neither the hotel arrangements nor the renting of weekend ...

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski has set a series of conditions for a leaders’ meeting. On his official Facebook page, he said on Tuesday that VMRO-DPMNE had frozen its relations with President Stevo Pendarovski after the granting of the mandate to Zoran Zaev. He described that as one of the reasons why the opposition will not attend a leaders’ meeting organised ...