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Bulgaria actively works and supports the European perspective of its neighbours from the Western Balkans as the safest measure for security, stability, and economic progress of the region, the country’s President, Rumen Radev, said at a working meeting with the Ambassadors of the EU and of Switzerland. As he added, that’s why his country expects to achieve concrete results in ...

The Infectious Diseases Committee has recommended for COVID recovery certificates to last 180 instead of 45 days after the date of a positive PCR test. Spokesperson Zlate Mehmedovic said on Tuesday one of the recommendations was related to the report presented by the Public Health Institute, which included an analysis of all hospitalisation cases and deaths from 1 to 31 ...

SDSM has asked VMRO-DPMNE to withdraw the Declaration on Goce Delcev. According to the ruling party, it is one of VMRO-DPMNE’s political and populist games that harm the revolutionary’s life and work. SDSM MP Jovan Mitreski said on Monday his party wouldn’t be part of the “daily political theatrics” that could harm the integration processes. “They have missed the topic ...

PM Dimitar Kovacevski isn’t in favour of early elections. In his view, the focus until 2024 should be on dealing with the healthcare and energy crisis, as well as on developing the economy. Kovacevski stated on Monday that the opposition’s proposal for annulment of the so-called Przino format of Government was legitimate. However, he added that a potential deal should ...

On Monday, President Stevo Pendarovski paid a visit to the family of Embla Ademi, the 11-year-old girl with Down syndrome, in Gostivar, as well as Edinstvo Primary School. The President talked to Embla’s parents about the challenges their daughter and they face every day, focusing on the opportunities to overcome them. Pendarovski encouraged and supported the parents in their activities ...

Culture Minister Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojchevska and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Teodora Genchovska, on Friday, one after another, laid flowers at Goce Delcev’s grave in Skopje on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth. The presence of the two delegations had been announced by Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov as joint celebration, while North Macedonia’s Government announced the event as state marking ...

On Friday, VMRO-DPMNE filed a Declaration to Parliament concerning Goce Delcev on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the revolutionary’s birth. Hristijan Mickoski’s party urged all parties to adopt it in the legislative home. The document will be submitted also to the Government, the National History Institute, the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Museum of the ...

Politics for politicians, history for historians. That’s the stand of Foreign Minister Osmani, who says mutual interference harms the Skopje-Sofia negotiations. According to him, the proposal to freeze the History Commission’s work for two years will mean undermining of the 2017 Good-Neighbourliness Treaty.  Osmani points out that, Dragi Georgiev, head of North Macedonia’s team, and all members can comment what ...

The balance between a swift and quality solution to the Sofia dispute is important. In an interview with MIA after his visit to Brussels, PM Dimitar Kovacevski says the hopes are that Bulgaria’s blockade will have been lifted by the end of the French Presidency on 30 January. “What we were also discussing here is that the solution to the ...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, after the meeting with PM Dimitar Kovacevski in Brussels, welcomed North Macedonia’s efforts to promote security, stability and progress in the region. “This includes your contributions to NATO’s peacekeeping mission in Kosovo,” he stated. At the meeting, they talked about the security of the Western Balkans as one of the main priorities of NATO and ...