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Parliament is preparing a Declaration to mark the fourth anniversary of North Macedonia’s NATO integration, while on Tuesday, the legislative house’s Speaker, Jovan Mitreski, organised a meeting at the Club of MPs, which was attended by, among others, ex-PMs Dimitar Kovacevski, Zoran Zaev, and Vlado Buckovski, and ex-Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska. On social media, Mitreski said the fourth anniversary had ...

Norway has sent a donation of 76 military vehicles to North Macedonia. The transport of the 40 lorries and 36 light infantry vehicles started on Monday, at Orkanger Port. The 76 vehicles will be transported to Thessaloniki by ship. The donation, the Norwegian Embassy explained, will be used to equip the Light Infantry Battalion. “The donation symbolises the importance of ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on mostly 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 ...

On Monday, Menduh Thaci’s DPA and Arjanit Hoxha’s European Democratic Party officially joined the DUI-led pre-election coalition. “This is the right moment for us to be together in a joint front. This front will be invincible,” DUI leader Ali Ahmeti stated. As he explained, the goal is EU integration, not party or personal benefits. Thaci stated that the Russian aggression ...

SDSM has levelled fierce criticism at VMRO-DPMNE’s election programme. At a press-conference on Monday, SDSM MP Martin Kostovski said the capital of Skopje and over 40 municipalities run by mayors from VMRO-DPMNE best exemplified its false promises. “They would promise modern municipalities, free transport, eco-friendly buses, capital projects, sports halls, parks, schools, streets, water supply systems. However, it’s been 2.5 ...

Just 2,691 diaspora members, in 24 countries, will vote in the presidential elections. It is estimated that around one million euros will be spent on organising the voting process, as well as on the stay abroad of members of election boards, which consist of ten persons. In China, where just 12 people have registered to vote, an entire board will ...

According to a CRPC poll for Glas.mk, published on Monday by Europe Elects, VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova would win 35.5% of votes in the election. SDSM-endorsed Stevo Pendarovski, DUI’s Bujar Osmani, ZNAM’s Maksim Dimitrievski, Levica-endorsed Biljana Vankovska, and GROM’s Stevco Jakimovski would get 29.3%, 14.3%, 9.6%, 5.1%, 4.3%, and 2% of the votes, respectively. The poll was conducted ...

Judges of the Supreme Court have rejected the initiative for them to decide whether the amnesty over the case concerning the 27 April 2017 storming of Parliament should be applied to the 27 April Organisers case. At Monday’s session, it was concluded that the initiative, submitted by Antonio Apostolski, the lawyer of former secret police chief Vladimir Atanasovski, was not ...

North Macedonia should this year exceed the so-called NATO level of defence costs, which should represent 2.05% of the GDP. Currently, in the Western Balkans, Serbia invests the most in defence. However, according to the recently published Balkan Defence Monitor 2024, North Macedonia and Albania will most likely take the lead. “After a couple of years marked by steady increase ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on mostly 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 ...