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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 ...

The German Bundestag will by the end of September approve the European Union starting membership negotiations with Macedonia, while the first chapters would be opened by the end of the year. PM Zoran Zaev received this conviction by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at their meeting in Berlin on Thursday. At the meeting, the German Chancellor said that the country had ...

Macedonia’s PM Zoran Zaev in an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) expressed confidence that a Mitsotakis-led government will not challenge the accord that the New Democracy leader so bitterly opposed.  Zaev also said he expects Germany and the EU to honour their side of the bargain and to give Skopje a date for the beginning of EU accession ...

Macedonia deserves to start negotiations with European Union especially after solving the open disputes with the neighbours, however, Germany decided whether the country will start negotiation talks instead of June, German Bundestag members told Macedonian MPs. They said that the Government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel can have its own viewpoint for Macedonian euro-integration, however, the final decision is brought ...

On Thursday, Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva presented the six-month Report on the work of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) before the Council of Public Prosecutors.  After the session, she said the Council’s members were satisfied with the work of the institution she headed, adding that they stated that the document was comprehensive and contained a lot of details. “We talked ...

The smaller political parties which are part of the ruling alliance led by SDSM and DUI call upon the government to not resign as a consequence to the decision for determination of date for start of the EU membership talks with Macedonia. “We are strongly convinced that by the end of 2019 our country will start the membership talks with ...

Macedonia survived the Netherlands Parliament vote, but not Albania. Two thirds from the Netherlands MPs considered that Albania, because of high degree of corruption and crime is not prepared to begin negotiations this year. Hague’s decision to block Tirana, but not Skopje is a positive signal for our country, according to experts. The Hungarian Ambassador to the country, László István ...

During a debate in the Hungarian Parliament, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Szijjarto confirmed the information that he and other state officials are having meetings in Budapest with the former Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski. Gruevski currently resides in Budapest after he was granted political asylum after he fled Macedonia avoiding a prison sentence. “I was regularly meeting Gruevski, ...

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 ...

The Macedonian Parliament accepted the resignation of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski today. Gruevski resigned as member of Parliament after a procedure was initiated to strip him of his mandate due to his absence for more than six months. Over this period, he’s been in Hungary, where he received political asylum after the campaign of persecution aimed at him and ...