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The Dutch Senate’s debate on Macedonia’s NATO Accession Protocol is scheduled for 5 November. It is expected to be ratified one week after that, that is, on 12 November. Two weeks later, the Dutch King should sign the document, which will complete the whole procedure. The ratification process is in its final stage in France, too. According to the French ...

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has a proposal to distinguish products coming from his country from those that from the northern neighbour. According to Greek media, his idea is that trademarks coming from the northern neighbour should be branded in the world with the name “Macedonia”, while those from his country should use the name “Makedonia”. Mitsotakis presented this idea before ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on 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 are ...

In a resolution adopted on Thursday, the European Parliament stresses that Macedonia and Albania meet the requirements to start negotiations. “Parliament expresses deep disappointment over the failure to agree on opening EU accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia at the EU summit on 17-18 October. MEPs regret the move by France, Denmark and the Netherlands to block the decision ...

On Thursday, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi held a meeting with European Parliament President David Sassoli, which was attended also by the European Parliament’s Vice-President, Klara Dobrev. The decision not to give a date for a start of negotiations was a mistake, but the support coming from the huge majority of MEPs will continue in the future, according to Sassoli. In ...

According to the EU’s Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, the consequences of France’s negative stand can be disastrous for both the two countries and the region. In his view, the announced early elections in Macedonia show how sensitive the internal-political situation in countries from the region is. Hahn said in an interview with Austrian agency ...

In the capacity of witness in the Target-Fortress case on Thursday, PM and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev said that former Security and Counter-Intelligence Administration head Zoran Verusevski, who is now among the PM’s advisers, had informed him that SDSM had documents and materials at its disposal from illegal interception of communications. According to Zaev, he first found about the materials ...

On his official Facebook page, SDSM Sec Gen Ljupco Nikolovski said on Thursday that Iceland’s Parliament had ratified Macedonia’s NATO Accession Protocol. He expressed gratitude for the ratification. So far, 28 out of 29 countries have either completed or are finalising the ratification. In Spain, the procedure depends on the parliamentary elections scheduled for 10 November.

Ali Ahmeti is adamant that his party, DUI, will not form a coalition with SDSM in the pre-election period. In his view, neither party will benefit from that. “We still haven’t found common ground over some national issues,” Ahmeti said on Thursday. He considers that though coalitions are logical when it comes to local and presidential elections, that is not ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly 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 ...