No demand of the opposition, including the one for fingerprints, is part of the new draft law concerning the census. There haven’t been significant changes to the articles either. PM Zoran Zaev says such machines will be procured from abroad if there are donations from embassies. He is adamant that the census will be held in the spring of 2021, ...

In an interview with Kanal 5 TV, PM Zoran Zaev says that the COVID-19 vaccines will most likely arrive in March. According to him, that will be so regardless of whether they are through the COVAX system, from Bulgaria, or from Greece. As the PM adds, money has been allocated for the vaccines. The PM also talked about the Skopje-Sofia ...

The unresolved issues with Bulgaria caused failure in terms of adopting the negotiations framework and starting membership negotiations, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said in the report at the Foreign Policy Committee. According to him, so far, numerous draft memoranda, non-papers, and declarations have been exchanged to try to find a solution to the Sofia issue. Osman said that next year, ...

According to the Government, the country isn’t waiting only for donations, that is, all instruments are being used. Spokesperson Dusko Arsovski said at a press-conference on Wednesday that all procedures had started on time. The 833,000 vaccines for around 400,000 citizens should arrive in the first months of 2021. In addition to the COVAX mechanism, Arsovski pointed out, negotiations are ...

Macedonia’s Foreign Minister, Bujar Osmani, said on Tuesday that the Bulgarian veto would not affect the negotiations process between Skopje and Sofia, as well as efforts to find a solution. As he added when it comes to the non-paper, Sofia’s answer is that it is still considering it. Potential new meetings are possible after New Year’s, as is a new ...

PM Zoran Zaev has responded to the latest stands from Bulgaria that the Bulgarian identity and language is harmed. As he said at a press-conference on Monday, the position presented by the western neighbour’s Defence Minister and Deputy PM, Krasimir Karakachanov, that there was no Macedonian identity before 1944, is offensive. Though Zaev’s message is that a solution with the ...

According to PM Zoran Zaev, though Skopje wants to solve the problem with Sofia, he doesn’t know as PM what the problem is anymore. He says that the country wants to have good relations with all neighbours and for there to be no hate. Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister, Ekaterina Zaharieva, is still without a concrete answer and explanation before the public ...

According to the Interior Ministry, the reforms being prepared in primary education don’t mean annulment of any scientific discipline. As it said in a press-release on Thursday, they are based on modern concepts and approaches, with the goal being students acquiring knowledge from all areas – history, geography or content from another discipline. “However, that will be in a manner ...

Nobody from today’s generation of politicians has the right to reach deals or negotiate on the language and identity, according to President Stevo Pendarovski. As he said in Wednesday’s address to Parliament, if the price of EU accession is giving up on the identity and language, that’s an unacceptable condition for every Macedonian. Also, the President added that though there ...

There will be no New Year’s Eve celebrations as new more restrictive measures accepted by the Government, but the day parties in the pre-New Year’s period will be able to squeeze through in the period until 6 pm, when the hospitality venues will need to close in the next five weeks. Neither the hotel arrangements nor the renting of weekend ...