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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.

On Saturday, in Chaniotis, Greece, a citizen of North Macedonia, Orhan Bajrami – Oki, was fatally shot, while another citizen, Sead Slezovic, was hospitalised in Polygyros with serious wounds. The attackers were wearing balaclavas, came by motorbike in the middle of the night, and fired over 20 bullets, Telma reported on Saturday afternoon. According to Greek media, when police came ...

In a press-release issued on Sunday, Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said the negotiating framework that would be presented to North Macedonia after the end of the stage of opening accession negotiations, as agreed by the Council of the EU, specifically set the principles regulating the negotiations. The Ministry reiterated Sofia was asking for institutions to prove their seriousness with which they ...

Political consensus in North Macedonia is the key regarding constitutional changes, progress, and accession to the EU, the EU Delegation’s Head, Ambassador David Geer, assesses in an interview with MIA. According to him, guarantees cannot be made that there will not be blockades for North Macedonia in the future, while if there are ones, he expects them to be due ...

Politics should be removed from the judiciary, the Government and parties should show willingness that they’re ready for that, while judges should show it is ready to do their job independently. That is the message sent by the EU Delegation’s Head, Ambassador David Geer, in an interview with MIA. According to him, the Delegation is carefully following developments related to ...

At the meeting in Washington, US Special Envoy for the Western Balkans and Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Gabriel Escobar and Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic discussed the issue of constitutional changes, Skopje’s EU path, US support on that road, and process to reform North Macedonia’s society. Maricic used the meeting to ...

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.

The delay of constitutional messages means a delay on the EU path. That was the message sent on Thursday by Alexander Schallenberg, Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of Austria, Jan Lipavsky, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, and Miroslav Wlachovsky, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, who travelled to Skopje. As they added, if ...

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski, who has insisted on early elections, said on Thursday that the Government, instead of solving problems, was becoming an obstacle to itself. As Mickoski reiterated, the constitutional changes are a closed topic. He also rejected the government’s claims that MPs from his party will support the changes to the Constitution. Mickoski talked about his party’s stand ...

Supreme Court Judge Nake Georgiev and Skopje Basic Court II Judge Antoaneta Dimovska will most likely be the new members of the Judicial Council. Six of the 16 Supreme Court judges voted in favour of Georgiev. Dimovska, from the Skopje appeals area, won 110 votes, 61 more than Kavadarci Court President Lazar Nanev. The final results will be announced on ...