At a press-conference on Monday, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani presented the Prespa Forum for Dialogue initiative. The platform is intended to protect, promote, and channel the benefits and importance of three deals: the Ohrid Framework Agreement, the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighbourliness, and Cooperation with Bulgaria, and the Prespa Agreement with Greece. According to Osmani, Prespa Forum for Dialogue and ...

On Monday, Education and Science Minister Mila Carovska held an online meeting with headmasters of primary and secondary schools regarding the education process in the first semester of the 2020/2021 school year. As the headmasters said, despite the big resistance to the online process at the start of the school year, the hybrid model produced the desired results. According to ...

The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) will renovate old premises, while the newly-formed Ministry of Political System and Inter-Community Relations has moved to a baroque building that’s part of the Skopje 2014 project. The Minister, Artan Grubi, who also serves as First Deputy PM, was the host at the event on Monday, while PM Zoran Zaev was the ...

“On this day in 1943, after cruel torture by the then-Bulgarian fascist occupier, Macedonian heroes Mirce Acev and Straso Pindzur were killed,” VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski wrote on his official Facebook page on Monday, adding that that was a sheer fact. According to him, that day should be a reminder of how expensive freedom is and how important the truth ...

In an interview with MIA, PM Zoran Zaev says he’s creating dialogue, not conflict, with Bulgaria, as well as calm and readiness for cooperation instead of nationalism for domestic use and new isolations. The communication with the eastern neighbour continues and aims to find a solution, according to him. The PM’s stand is that bilateral issues shouldn’t be an obstacle ...

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani has offered Initiative 8 to his counterparts from Bulgaria and Albania, Ekaterina Zaharieva and Olta Xhacka, respectively, for trilateral political-economic approximation among the three countries. The multidisciplinary initiative has been sent through a letter. The proposal implies activities including speeding up the infrastructure and communication projects along Corridor VIII, building a political platform to advance mutual ...

Over the past three days, the Interior Ministry’s phone for reporting celebrations in bigger groups has been contacted 62 times. On Thursday, police received 22 calls, eight of which were unjustified. Officers entered nine weekend houses, as well as flats in Karpos, Centar, and Cair, which resulted in fines. Among the problems were fights and domestic violence, but the result ...

The lifeless body of a Macedonian diplomat in the UN in New York has been found with a belt around her neck. The body was found in the bedroom of her East 45th Street flat on Friday. Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed the information, saying it was in constant communication with relevant institutions in the US with regards to details ...

Macedonia will get the first doses of Pfizer’s vaccine in February. Wednesday afternoon saw a direct deal reached with the company. The amount will be known in the coming weeks. The following doses will arrive in March and April. The Health Ministry is continuing talks to secure vaccines also through negotiations with EU members and through the COVAX mechanism, from ...

The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) will launch an initiative before the Public Prosecutor’s Office. That will be done to initiate proceedings against a political party for illegal financing during the election campaign for the early parliamentary elections. The Financial Intelligence Office has confirmed the allegations, it was said at Wednesday’s session. The conclusion was adopted unanimously. The ...