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PM Dimitar Kovacevski will invite the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, to a leadership meeting. As he announced, he plans to put two topics on the table – North Macedonia & #39;s integration into the EU and harmonization of views on relations with neighboring countries. If such a meeting were to take place, he did not reveal the details, he ...

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 parliamentary delegations of North Macedonia and Bulgaria bowed together and laid flowers in front of the memorial plaque of St. Cyril in the Basilica “Santa Maria Maggiore” in Rome. Then the President of the Parliament Talat Xhaferi and the President of the Bulgarian National Assembly, Rosen Zhelyazkov, gave a joint statement to the media of both countries. “The initiative ...

In honor of the celebration of 24 May – the Day of All-Slavic educators Cyril and Methodius, a government delegation led by the Prime Minister, Dimitar Kovacevski, together with the Minister of Education and Science, Jeton Shaqiri and the Minister of Defense, Slavjanka Petrovska, laid fresh flowers and paid respect to the monument of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius ...

“Holy brothers Cyril and Methodius are our light, our window to the world, our priceless treasure that we hand over to humanity with great hope and great will. Saints Cyril and Methodius left a work that is not only ahead of time, but a millennium later defeats time and remains shining before people,” noted VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski from Ohrid. ...

Modest and almost insignificant democratic progress is noted by North Macedonia in the latest Freedom House report “Nations in Transition”. On the scale from the lowest score of 1 to the highest of seven, this state is rated 3.86, in contrast to the 3.82 it received in last year’s report. In more detail in the scoring, in the category of ...

Macedonian Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski criticized Bulgarian politicians, not Bulgaria’s policy – according to Bulgarian Technical Minister for Foreign Affairs Ivan Kondov, this was the explanation given to him by his colleague Bujar Osmani in Brussels, for the speech of the Prime Minister who last week from Reykjavik compared Bulgaria’s discourse towards the country with that of Russia towards Ukraine. ...

At the proposal of the Ministry of Defense, at the 156th session, the Government adopted a Decision to send members of the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia to participate in the NATO battle group operation “enhanced Vigilance Activity-eVA” in the Republic of Romania, for a period of six months, from June to December 2023, the government press service ...

The President of the Parliament of the Republic of North Macedonia, Talat Xhaferi from Rome announced that together with the Bulgarian delegation they will lay flowers in the Basilica “Santa Maria Maggiore” on Wednesday where there is a memorial plaque in the Macedonian language in honor of St. Cyril. “I cannot prejudge which topics and issues will be discussed at ...

President Stevo Pendarovski, as part of his working visit to Belgium, met in Brussels with the President of the Senate of the Belgian Parliament, Stephanie D’Hose. At the meeting, opinions were exchanged on the overall bilateral relations between the two countries, the press service of the head of state announced. President Pendarovski, as indicated, assessed that the two countries foster ...