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Mostly dry road conditions are reported across the country with moderate traffic outside urban areas and no delays at border crossings. Fog reduces visibility to 50 meters at Gjavato mountain pass. As of 15 November 2022, winter equipment in vehicles is mandatory until Mar. 15, 2023, regardless of the weather. As of 3 November 2022, traffic is diverted from part ...

Hristijan Pendikov, the beaten-up Secretary of the Tsar Boris III Bulgarian club in Ohrid, has been evacuated by plane of the Government for treatment in Bulgaria. With permission of the family, Sveti Erazmo Orthopaedics and Traumatology Ohrid transported him on Friday to the airport in Ohrid even though the recommendation from the health institution was for the treatment to be ...

North Macedonia’s Foreign and Health Ministries are without answers about which institutions allowed Hristijan Pendikov, the beaten-up Secretary of the Tsar Boris III Bulgarian club in Ohrid, to be transported to Sofia and on which grounds. Considering Pendikov was charged in a cocaine case one month ago, it’s a question whether he was allowed to leave the country at all. ...

There aren’t any pressures on ruling majority MPs that are allegedly in favour of elections and against constitutional changes, PM Dimitar Kovacevski has said regarding opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski’s accusations. According to the PM, within his party, SDSM, everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but nobody is against decisions made by SDSM unanimously. “This is Mickoski’s third lie,” Kovacevski ...

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski has reacted to PM Dimitar Kovacevski’s comments that there are no pressures on MPs. “The previous time, they needed to kidnap an MP to have 61,” the opposition leader says. According to the VMRO-DPMNE President, the question is what will citizens of the country get from the new majority in Parliament announced by Kovacevski. Instead of ...

Mostly dry road conditions are reported across the country with moderate traffic outside urban areas and no delays at border crossings. Fog reduces visibility from 50 to 100 meters on Skopje – Veles and Veles – Skopje route and from 100 to 150 meters on Gradsko – Negotino route. As of Nov. 15, 2022, winter equipment in vehicles is mandatory ...

The Government doesn’t intend to declare Bulgarian politicians Angel Dzhambazki and Kostadin Kostadinov personae non gratae over the statements made over the weekend during the marking of the anniversary of Mara Buneva death in Skopje. According to PM Dimitar Kovacevski, if that is done, it would be a service to, as he described them, politically marginal persons that are not ...

“There is a medium in this country whose editorial policy looks more like a company trading in energy agents, while there is also a medium whose editorial policy looks like a party’s sector for communication.” This statement by PM Dimitar Kovacevski on Monday sparked loud reactions by journalists to his decision to avoid directly to name media the PM had ...

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti has been fiercely criticised by VMRO-DPMNE over his description of TV stations Telma and Alfa as enemies of the Albanians. “We call on all relevant media organisations to immediately react to this labelling of media in the country,” the party said on Monday. In its press-release, VMRO-DPMNE also criticised PM Dimitar Kovacevski. “Ahmeti’s servant, Kovacevski, received ...

The Administration for Execution of Sanctions will get a new head. PM Dimitar Kovacevski is not satisfied with the Director, Marjan Spasovski. As he said on Monday, a procedure to choose a new head of the institution has started. The highlighted reason for the dissatisfaction was prisoner Bekim Memeti’s escape. According to the PM, the Interior Ministry reacted timely and ...