The Ministry of Health informs that in the last 24 hours 2,445 tests have been performed, and 535 new cases of COVID-19 have been registered. The total number of diagnosed in the country since the beginning of the epidemic is 22,170, the number of recovered patients is 16,758, the number of dead is 815, and currently the number of active ...

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani rejects the claims by VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski that Bulgaria is seeking a new agreement between Skopje and Sofia that would include constitutional changes. According to Osmani, there are no talks with the Bulgarian side on new agreements, only intensified talks on several levels in order to overcome the current open issues and strengthen the work ...

Since the ruling majority lacks corona-positive MPs, there is no majority in the Assembly to vote on laws or a quorum to work without the opposition. The coalition partners SDSM and DUI propose that the sessions be held in the hall, but that the infected MPs be included online. They seek consensus with the opposition on such changes in the ...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva met with Macedonian Foreign Minister Osmani in Sofia. Borisov set November 10, the date when the Berlin Process will take place, which is chaired by Macedonia and Bulgaria, as a time for, as he said, a compromise solution that will satisfy everyone. Borisov told Osmani that a lot of ...

“Today, I can announce that North Macedonia will receive a COVID-19 assistance package from NATO’s new medical stockpile. This will include 60 ventilators and other urgently needed equipment worth approximately 1.4 million euros. And this comes of course in addition to the aid and support we have already delivered. This is NATO solidarity in action,” the Alliance’s Sec Gen, Jens ...

There is no need for overdramatising, let diplomacy work, while the EU will do everything it can so that Skopje starts negotiations by the end of the year. This was the message sent by EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi in Skopje on Wednesday with regards to Bulgaria’s stands on Macedonia’s integration road. According to him, finding a solution is in ...

The EU still has a goal to start negotiations by the end of the year even though the issue with Bulgaria over the negotiating framework for the Macedonia is still acceptable. On Tuesday, EU Enlargement Commissioner said both countries should find a mutually acceptable resolution. He added that there was work together with authorities in both Skopje and Sofia. “The ...

PM Zoran Zaev doesn’t expect Bulgaria to be an obstacle on Macedonia’s road to EU membership negotiations. He said on Monday that a joint solution would be found. The PM once again stated that identity issues were a right of self-determination. “Bulgaria is a European country, and I believe that in the talks themselves, in the documents itself, it is ...

In the last 24 hours, 191 new COVID-19 cases have been registered, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. It was added that the same period had seen 1,350 new tests, 77 new cured patients, and three new deaths. The number of active cases in the country is 2,693. Friday and Saturday had seen 468 new COVID-19 cases, 10 new deaths, ...

“VMRO-DPMNE is considering all possibilities. All options of the party’s bodies and organs will be considered for a final decision on impeachment of President Stevo Pendarovski,” the party’s spokesperson, Dimce Arsovski, said on Thursday. He once again pointed to the party’s stand on the President. “We said a long time ago that Pendarovski was an accomplice of PM Zoran Zaev’s ...