Education Minister Jeton Shaqiri held a meeting on Wednesday with representatives of the Education Trade Union headed by their President Jakim Nedelkov in order to discuss eventual halt of their strike and agreement for their demands for increase of their salaries. Before the meeting, Shaqiri said that, if necessary, the Education Ministry can allocate funds from its annual budget in ...

The Government of North Macedonia accepted and adopted at a session on Tuesday the latest recommendations from the Infectious Diseases Committee in relation to the anti-COVID measures. The government abolished the obligation for wearing face protection indoors for all public surfaces, except hospitals, pharmacies, retirement homes and public transport (busses, taxis, trains, airplanes etc.). Besides this, people who were in ...

The Department of State of the United States has blacklisted former PM of North Macedonia and former VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski and former Head of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence Saso Mijalkov, along with the members of their closest families. From the US Department of State, they inform that the decision is made upon conclusion that both Gruevski and ...

Secretary General of the Government of North Macedonia Muhamed Zekiri was imprisoned on Friday evening upon a detention measure issued against him by the Criminal Court in Skopje. Zekiri got a 30-day detention measure after the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime and Corruption (BPPOOCC) filed against him a bill of indictment charging him of abuse of official position. ...

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski said during a visit to Kicevo that changes to the Constitution of North Macedonia can be made only through the necessary parliamentary procedures and debates, which would involve opinions of experts. Kovacevski stated this in context to the demands of Albanian parties in the country for removal of the reference for “20% of the citizens” concerning ...

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski held on Tuesday a briefing with Ambassadors of EU member-states in North Macedonia, including the Deputy Head of the EU Delegation in Skopje Julian Vassallo. Kovacevski spoke about the most important issues concerning the EU integration of North Macedonia, in context of the security crisis in Ukraine and its effects over the rest of Europe. “We ...

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski said on Monday that the government is taking all measures necessary to handle the case revealed by Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani, that certain employees and officials from some of the institutions of the state contacted Bulgarian institutions in order to convince them to halt the negotiations with North Macedonia over their bilateral disputes. “We are ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani revealed at a briefing with journalists that certain employees and officials from state institutions in North Macedonia have been contacting state institutions in Bulgaria in order to tamper the process of negotiations between Skopje and Sofia for overcoming bilateral disputes. “They have been calling Bulgaria, telling them that the entire engagement around the resolution of ...

Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov reiterated on Thursday that the Macedonian-Bulgarian Committee on historical Affairs has reached agreement over certain issues and historical figures. “As far as I am informed, they have reached agreement and realised quite great progress in the negotiations. I am very glad that both sides express cooperation spirits. Once they have reached any agreement, they will notify ...

Director of the State Statistical Office (SSO) Apostol Simovski presented at a special ceremony in Skopje the final official results of the Population Census that was conducted in the country in the second half of 2021. “We conducted a major statistical operation, and we conducted it rather successfully. Still, we faced challenges like the boycott of the census by certain ...