Tag: aid

Photo: nato.int Unlike the claim in the post, NATO is not sending weapons directly to Ukraine. NATO member-states individually are sending weapons and aid, together with other countries that are not NATO members, and that is clearly stressed on NATO’s website by Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg. It is not true either that NATO has not sent aid to Slovenia after it...

As the first important steps of a new and concrete impulse to promote regional co-operation within the framework of the "OpenBalkan" Initiative, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, the president of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and the Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, yesterday signed the Agreement on Cooperation in Protection and Rescue Operations in Natural Disasters in the Western...

The fifth financial package with financial aid for companies and citizens of North Macedonia is worth €160 million, stressed today Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in a press conference. The package consists of 29 in four categories: direct financial aid for companies in the areas of tourism, artisanship, hospitality industri, transportation, the event industry so that they can keep people's jobs,...

The European Commission decided to give North Macedonia €160 million from the macro-financial assistance (MFA) package to support country's economy which is hard hit by the coronavirus. The whole package, aimed for 10 countries, amounts to €3 billion and relates to strengthening fiscal governance and transparency, the fight against corruption, enhancing financial sector supervision, improving the business environment, and...

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) and the Macedonian Independent Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM) expressed their concern about the situation of local and regional broadcasters, who announced they will go on strike by stopping the program temporarily. "This decision by local and regional broadcasters comes after the Government's decree from the 30th of May 2020, according...

The Government of North Macedonia will provide financial aid for all broadcasters with money from the COVID19 Crisis Relief Fund in order to help them cover their expenses i.e. fees for the year 2020 towards the operator of the digital terrestrial multiplex, informs the Ministry of Information Society and Administration (MISA). The total sum planned for this purpose is 31.732.390,00...

The USAID Representative in North Macedonia Erik Janowsky and North Macedonia’s Minister of Finance signed an joint agreement for $16 million by the US to help North Macedonia reduce corruption, better integrate youth in society, and increase economic competitiveness. The agreement will help national and municipal government efforts to leverage and successfully manage financial resources and implement accountability mechanisms; the...

Within its commitments for free, independent and professional media, Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society deems that the media should not be directly and financially aided by the state. The aid ought to come in other forms such as lowering the tax rates and lifting the journalist employment fees and it ought to be for the purpose of quality...

Another six million euros have been allocated for the repairs to the damage in the areas affected by the floods which occurred on August 6, in Skopje.  From the six million euros, three million have been allocated from the state budget, 2.5 million euros from the budget of the City of Skopje, and 500.000 euros from the Municipality of...

The Minister for Foreign Affairs sent a notice to all embassies on August 9 asking for financial assistance and a list was put together of the products needed to help deal with consequences of the floods. “The ministry shall attach a preliminary list of specific items needed, which may be handed out as the situation develops," reads the letter which...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Popovski, today after a meeting with Ambassadors of the EU member states said that migrants who wait several days for entering the country will not be missed out and that Greek police are expected to clear up the situation on the border, to enable the flow of those fleeing warring hot spots. Minister...

Since the 19th of June until yesterday, 276,303 migrants have passed through Macedonia. Even with the announcements the EU have made, the country has only received 90,000 euros in aid, which amounts to roughly 20 denars per refugee, even though most European officials when passing through Skopje from Brussels always announce that they are doing more. This was the...

The European Commission allowed additional 1.5 million euro in humanitarian help for Macedonia and Serbia to give appropriate care and temporary housing conditions to refugees and migrants. European Commissioner for Humanitarian aid Christos Stylianides said “The Western Balkans are dealing with an unprecedented number of transiting refugees and migrants. The EU is stepping up its humanitarian aid to provide them...

The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders still hasn’t received a permit to give medical care to the refugees that are coming to Macedonia. The Ministry of Health is responsible for giving that permit,” reports NovaTv. The news portal wrote that several doctors have been in the country for some time now, but cannot obtain the needed permit to be able...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande convened an extraordinary summit of the European Union for tomorrow, which is dedicated to Greece. The two leaders agreed that the decision of the Greek people must be respected. Hollande and Merkel will discuss the outcome of the referendum today in Paris. During the day, British Prime Minister David Cameron will also hold...

European Central Bank (ECB) today announced that it will continue with the current financial aid to Greek banks through the mechanism of emergency which is in force since February this year. "Given the current circumstances, the Management Board of the European Central Bank decided to proceed with immediate liquidity of Greek banks," the statement reads, but it is added that...

A meeting of the services of the City of Skopje, on which are arranged the possible assistance of the city for solidarity which will be sent to Nepal, which on Saturday was hit by a devastating earthquake that killed more than 3,000 people, is ongoing, confirmed spokesman of City of Skopje Nedelcho Krstevski for META. He could not provide more...

Red Cross of the Republic of Macedonia distributed humanitarian aid in flooded areas in Bitola, Prilep, Shtip, Kochani, Strumica, and yesterday afternoon in Kichevo and Gostivar as well. Through mobile lines of T-Mobile, ONE and VIP 070/075/077 143 400, a total of 4683,500 denars were collected up to today, while 741,987 denars were collected to the account of the Solidarity...

If you call the phone numbers for donations for citizens from flooded areas in Macedonia, the telephone operator will take 118 denars. Of these, 100 denars are for the donation, while 18 denars are for VAT, which is 18 percent. Citizens are revolted because it is illogical to donate money to charities and pay VAT on them. Same was the...