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In the annual report of UNDP for the Human development index in 2019, which was presented on Tuesday in Skopje, Macedonia has been ranked 82nd out of 189 world countries. According to the UNDP, Macedonia marks progress in the human development in all categories, but still is one of the countries with lowest growth rates in Europe. According to the ...

The French Ambassador to Macedonia Christian Thimonier does not believe that the French “No” for start of EU membership talks with Macedonia is not a direct hit by Paris against Skopje. “This is not a hit. It is not up to us all just to open the negotiations, we need to conduct them successfully too. For that, North Macedonia needs ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on mostly dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

According to PM Zoran Zaev, at the moment there are neither reasons nor necessity for delay of the snap election scheduled for 12 April 2020. “Very soon the central board of SDSM shall assemble in order to determine our further steps in the process of the creation of a technical government, which is to be formed 100 days before the ...

Commenting on the possibility for introduction of vetting in the judiciary, the EU Ambassador to Macedonia Samuel Zbogar said that now is not the right time for that. “It is better for the judicial organs to use the currently available legal tools in order to improve things internally. The vetting should be a last resort, and it can be implemented ...

The government of Macedonia held on Monday a session in the House of Carpenters in Kumanovo. This is a third session this year that the government holds outside of the capital Skopje, the previous two taking place in Bitola and Tetovo. “We intend to proceed with this trend in 2020 as well, with one governmental session outside of Skopje at ...

The SDSM MP Frosina Remenski once again came to the Public Prosecution for Organised Crime (PPOC) to proceed with the insight in the evidence against her in the “International Alliance” case, focusing on financial manipulations conducted by the management of the NGO International Alliance, founded and owned by “Racketeering” case defendant Bojan Jovanovski. As vice-president of International Alliance, Remenski is ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on mostly dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

The Bulgarian Ambassador to Macedonia Angel Angelov says that the official position of Bulgaria in relation to the Macedonian language is the one contained in the Declaration of the Bulgarian Parliament adopted in October 2019. Last week, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAN) came out with a conclusion that the Macedonian language does not exist, and that the ethnic Macedonians ...

The integration of Macedonia in the EU has been discussed by the Croatian PM Andrej Plenkovic at his meeting with the French President Emanuel Macron, the Croatian news agency HINA reports. Plenkovic and Macron exchanged opinions about the changing of the enlargement methodology of the EU, focusing on the integration of Macedonia and Albania, and discussed the priorities of the ...