SkopjeDiem Macedonia in English

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the road conditions. ...

The bribe attempt PM Hristijan Mickoski claims happened over the rail link towards Bulgaria was offered by companies that had applied to implement the project, according to Transport Minister and Deputy PM Aleksandar Nikoloski. He said on Thursday that the majority of them had been unserious and intermediaries of theirs had tried to win the process by bribing. “Seven participants ...

According to Transport Minister and Deputy PM Aleksandar Nikoloski, whenever there are elections in Bulgaria the topic about the western neighbour is exploited. “Whenever there are elections in Bulgaria, the topic about Macedonia is exploited. I don’t even know when the elections there will be held because they’re so dysfunctional they cannot even schedule elections. This is their seventh or ...

Croatia will be committed to the most dynamic EU accession process of North Macedonia possible, Croatian PM Andrej Plenkovic said after his meeting on Thursday with counterpart Hristijan Mickoski. As he assessed, Zagreb remains ready to help Skopje on its EU path that has seen a lot of injustice over the past 20 years. In Plenkovic’s view, the issue on ...

Skopje will get neither Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) nor new eco-friendly buses. At Thursday’s session of the City of Skopje’s Council, the majority of Council members didn’t greenlight the two items. VMRO-DPMNE Council members voted against the procurement of the buses. Council President Trajko Slaveski said he wouldn’t vote in favour of the item because the Budget for 2024 didn’t ...

Five of the ten persons convicted in the trial over the 27 April 2017 storming of Parliament who were using the 30-day furlough measure for health reasons have requested that a court stop their respective prison sentences. Three of them have been issued one-month stoppage, the Criminal Court has confirmed. The response to the fourth request is being prepared, while ...

On Thursday, prominent DUI activist Ismet Guri turned himself into police and taken to prison. Guri, for whose arrest a warrant had been issued, and Ejupi Alimi, were covered in the Titanic 3 case which concerned destruction of election material in the 2013 local elections. Guri, a former deputy head of the Public Revenue Office, had first issued a detention ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the road conditions. ...

Regarding the Prosecutor’s Office’s comments the previous day that it hadn’t received a report about the bribe attempt over Corridor VIII, PM Mickoski said on Wednesday that he would fight corruption and crime by making public comments. “That’s my decision. That’s why I made the statement about the bribery attempt,” he added. According to Mickoski, since the tender process started ...

On Wednesday, VMRO-DPMNE MP Mile Lefkov made new accusations against former Culture Minister Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska. As he said, during a visit to Vienna, during her term as the Minister, she spent 1,213 euros in taxpayer money on renting a three-room flat for four nights in the centre of the Austrian capital. Lefkov asked why she hadn’t gone to a hotel, ...