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Education Minister Vesna Janevska said that the Education Ministry already completed all procedures for the employment and engagement of educational assistants for children with special needs. “Once the Ministry completes the procedures, then it is up to the schools with resource centres to open the call for engagement of assistants. 815 educational assistants already signed their employment contracts, and we ...

The local self-government of Prilep called upon all citizens who have real estates in the village of Krusevica to immediately go there in order to protect their estates from the wildfire that started in Mariovo on Wednesday, and now threatens the village. Teams of the Crisis Management Centre (CMC) with over 150 firefighters are intervening on terrain to prevent the ...

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. ...

European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi wrote on X (formerly Twitter) after his meeting with Minister of European Affairs of North Macedonia, Orhan Murtezani, that the process for integration of the country in the EU needs to be accelerated. “Good exchange with Minister Murtezani on the accession process of North Macedonia. Enlargement is our common goal. Agreed that ...

The Parliament of North Macedonia organised on Wednesday afternoon a debate over the progress of the implementation of the Berlin Process. Parliament Speaker Afrim Gashi said that the Berlin Process played a key role over the past ten years when it comes to the acceleration of EU-integration processes for North Macedonia and the rest of the Western Balkans. “The Western ...

A state delegation comprising of Deputy PM and Transport Minsiter Aleksandar Nikoloski, FM Timco Mucunski and Minister for Inter-Ethnic Relations Ivan Stoilkovic, paid an official visit to Serbia, where they had a meeting with Serbian PM Ana Brnabic. As the Ministry of Transport reports, the interlocutors reaffirmed the good friendly relations between North Macedonia and Serbia, with special emphasis on ...

SDSM leader Venko Filipce had a meeting on Wednesday with German Ambassador to North Macedonia, Petra Drexler. At the meeting, Filipce introduced Drexler to the future policies of SDSM, as well as with the intra-party reforms which focus on strengthening its position as, as he said, the largest opposition party in the country. “SDSM thoroughly analysed the results of the ...

The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) filed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) an initiative for prosecution of former Director of the Public Revenue Office (PRO) Sanja Lukarevska. This follows the announcement by current PRO Director Elena Petrova that 129 employees at PRO have been illegally employed in the pre-electoral period in April 2024. According to SCPC and ...

Acting Director of the Health Insurance Fund Saso Klekovski informed on Wednesday that in the following 10 days the Fund will reveal the plan for dealing with the debts accumulated by the public healthcare institutions. “Concluding with 3 June 2024, their debts amount around five billion denars, and have increased by one billion denars compared to the first half of ...

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. ...