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With 16 seconds of silence for the 16 years spent as a candidate country for EU membership, Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Dimitrov began his speech before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he addressed as a special guest at the autumn session. “I have not forgotten my thought, these were 16 seconds, which seemed long, so you ...

“The State Election Commission received more than a thousand of these terminals, and the filling of data from the citizens of the already arrived has already started,” said President of SEC Aleksandar Dastevski, who attended the handover. “With today’s shipment we expect to arrive about a thousand more devices for biometric identification of citizens and thus we will have over ...

The report from the Department for forensic technical examinations and expertise of the Ministry of Interior from the inspection of the fire in the Modular COVID Hospital in Tetovo, on Friday arrived at the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Tetovo. As informed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the report will be reviewed and analysed by the prosecutors, and the reports ...

24.9% of the citizens would vote for the lists of SDSM in the local elections, and 22.8% for the lists of VMRO-DPMNE, shows the poll commissioned by Makfax in the agency Stratum R&D. SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE are followed by an Independent List with 12.9%, while 12% of the citizens will not go to the polls. 10% opted for DUI, 9.3% ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the Directorate for Protection of Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of Interior and the Public Prosecutor’s Office expressly completed the investigation into the tombstone of Duke Skocivirceto in Klepac, Prilep, for which Bulgaria handed the country a diplomatic note. It was determined that the replacement of the plaque was made by a member of ...

The applications for the census in the country and for the self-census of the diaspora are closed, thus completing the census activities within the Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in North Macedonia, 2021. The largest statistical operation in 20 years in the country lasted 26 days, from 5 until 30 September. In the next few days, the State Statistical ...

“Enlargement has always carried strong opinions and a lot of emotions, a lot of optimism and extreme pessimism at the same time. Above all, success in enlargement requires commitment. It is a geostrategic investment in peace, security, stability and economic growth. The road to the EU as we know it is long and complicated and full of challenges, but for ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis categorically stands behind North Macedonia over the Bulgarian blockade on the start of EU membership talks. Mitsotakis believes that Bulgaria unnecessarily complicates matters, while sending a clear message that the Western Balkans belong to Europe. The Greek Prime Minister made this statement during his participation in the “Athens Democratic Forum”, where he referred to the ...

A productive meeting filled with encouraging messages for the teams of the North Macedonian and Bulgarian Foreign Ministries to continue working to find a mutually acceptable solution as well as strong assurances that the European Union wants to see North Macedonia as part of the European family, are part of the messages that EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi addressed to ...

Minister of Defence, Radmila Sekerinska, at the presentation of the Integrity Plan, pointed out that the Ministry has been extremely active in the field of accountability and transparency, which are the basis for efficient and accountable defence. Sekerinska informed that this Integrity Plan focuses on the human resources management system, prevention of conflicts of interest, elimination of corruption risks during ...