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Mostly dry road conditions are reported across the country, with increased traffic outside urban areas. Except for a 45-minute wait at Tabanovce and a 30-minute wait at Bogorodica, no delays are reported at other border crossings. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE calls for careful driving and adjustment of the speed to the conditions of the road. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE’s on-call teams are ...

On the sixth day of the protest by citizens who demand the rejection of the French proposal to resolve the dispute between North Macedonia and Bulgaria and the beginning of North Macedonia’s negotiations with the European Union (EU), the demonstrators announced blockades throughout the country starting Friday at 1 PM, Anatolia Agency (AA) reports. The leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, ...

The office of the Speaker of the Parliament, Talat Xhaferi, informed in a press release that they have received information about the content of the proposal for the negotiation framework, and no meeting is planned for Thursday night. The opening of negotiations for accession to the EU without further delay represents one of the key steps in the relations between ...

A historic opportunity is opening up, the choice is yours, French President Emmanuel Macron said to Macedonian citizens, in the letter published by the French Embassy in the country. Macron does not claim that the French proposal is perfect, but says that it brings the country into the European Union. He states that it lists the Good Neighbourly Treaty in ...

The majority of Macedonians are against accepting the so-called French proposal, and most of them support the protests. This is shown in the survey of the Institute for Political Research from Skopje, conducted through a telephone survey in the period between 4 and 6 July on 1,114 adult respondents at the level of North Macedonia. When asked, would you accept ...

“Demonstrators with placards waved at the police cordon. The police did not react for some time. 47 police officers were injured. 11 severely, and two have serious injuries,” Minister of Internal Affairs, Oliver Spasovski, added that 11 people were detained Tuesday, two of them minors. It is yet to be considered what action will be taken against them, and that ...

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MoI) completely denies the claims of the President of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, that the police were not present and did not react during the incident at the “Skanderbeg” monument. On the contrary, as indicated by the Ministry of the Interior, the police were on the spot, reacted at the same moment and stopped the violence, ...

The First Vice-President of the Government and Minister of Political System and Inter-Community Relations Artan Grubi held a meeting with the head of the OSCE Mission, Ambassador Clemens Koja, at which the main topics were the challenges of the integration process of the Republic of North Macedonia, the content of the proposal of the French presidency to resolve of the ...

In an interview with the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama assesses that EU policy is increasingly determined by national egoism, for which ‘the best example is Bulgaria’s opposition to North Macedonia’. “EU policy is increasingly determined by national selfishness. It matters less and less what you do and more and more how others feel when they ...

Traffic on state roads runs smoothly, on dry roads. At certain roads going through ravines, minor rockslides are possible. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE calls for careful driving and adjustment of the speed to the conditions of the road. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE’s on-call teams are constantly on- site and keep all roads passable.