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Germany extends border controls with Poland, Czech and Switzerland

Germany is extending temporary border controls with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland until December 15, the county's Interior Ministry announced on Monday, writes German news agency DPA. There are normally no regular border controls or document checks along any of Germany's borders since all of the country's neighbours are in the visa-free Schengen Area. But Germany has reimposed border checks...

The Commission for Infectious Diseases proposed border opening with Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo

The Health Ministry informed the public that this morning the Commission for Infectious Diseases issued a proposal for opening the borders with Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania, without the obligation of PCR tests. "According to the analyses, at the moments there isn't any indication i.e. there is no higher number of imported cases with COVID-19 in the country. In accordance...

Borders with Serbia and Kosovo remain open

The Commission for Infectious Diseases had no discussion today about closing the borders of North Macedonia with Kosovo and Serbia and it hasn't issued a recommendation to the Government, said the Interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski during the visit to Chucher - Sandevo. -This isn't a political issue, and therefore the Government cannot make a decision such as this alone....

The airports in Macedonia will not be opened before the 15th of June

The Director-General of the Civil Aviation Agency, Tomislav Tuntev, said that it shouldn't be expected the airports in North Macedonia to be opened before the 15th of June. At the moment the number of flights compared to last year is just 7 to 10%, and these include military flights, special medical, state and humanitarian flights and repatriation flights for...

Bekteshi: Macedonia will establish joint customs control with Albania

Today, Economy Minister Kreshnik Bekteshi said that Macedonia will establish a "one stop shop" for joint border control with Albania, and its goal is to increase trade cooperation between the two countries. "Macedonia is fully committed to increasing cooperation with countries in the region, establishing a common economic zone, which will increase competitiveness for our companies," said Bekteshi before the...

Hoyt Yee: The USA does not support any changes to the borders in the Balkans

The USA does not support any changes to the borders in the Balkans, said Hoyt Brian Yee, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. “The borders of the Balkan countries are clearly defined, internationally recognized and it is not a controversial issue. Changing the borders in the Balkans will not improve or contribute to the...

Rama: The discussion over the borders will have to be re-visited If the process of euro-integration of Balkan countries fails

If the process of euro-integration of all the Balkan countries fails, then the discussion over borders will have to be re-visited, said the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, in an interview for the web portal Dialogplus.ch. As for the situation in the region, the Albanian Prime Minister stated that political conflicts exist, which according to him, is a result...

Obama was misinformed on Macedonia by Pavlopoulos

Macedonia was one of the topics discussed by US President Barack Obama and his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos. The Greek President repeated his views and accusations against the Macedonian government to Obama, criticizing the country for trying to adopt Greek history as its own. “The fact is that a neighbouring state, who are demanding a name, who other than falsifying...

Ivanov has asked his colleagues to tell Greece to stop bringing migrants to the border

President Gjorge Ivanov, yesterday and today telephoned several Presidents and Prime Ministers from member states of the European Union and the Balkan corridor regarding the migrant crisis and discussed the incident that occurred on March 14, when 1,500 migrants from Greece illegally entered Macedonian territory, in the village of Moin near Gevgelija. As announced by Ivanov's office, he asked his...

Greek Media: It smells of gunpowder in Idomeni

This morning tension and riots sparked up again it was reported Idomeni, the Greek-Macedonian border. After a group of economic migrants tried to break though trying to enter Macedonian territory Riots and tensions again this morning were reported in Idomeni the Greek-Macedonian border after a group of economic migrants tried to break and enter on Macedonian territory with refugees, but...

Due to the migrant crisis, Bulgaria dispatches army troops along its border with Macedonia and Greece

Bulgaria has dispatched army personnel on the borders with Macedonia and Greece due to the critical situation with the migrants, announced the government of Bulgaria. Bulgarian media reports that the Ministry of Defense will propose concrete measures which will enable the army and police to better guard the state border. The decision to dispatch troops was brought at a yesterday meeting...

Legis: Declaring an emergency situation at the borders is unnecessary and inadequate

Declaring a crisis and ordering army soldiers to the southern and northern borders is too early for a situation that can be helped through a better organization by the government, comment experts on the decision of the government to heighten control at the borders. Jasmin Redzepi, activist and humanitarian work of the NGO Legis, says the decision by the government...

Government declares emergency situation of the south and north borders

The government held meeting at which it declared an emergency situation for the south and north borders due to the heightened influx of migrants in the country. This was reported by Ivo Kotevski, deputy Minister of public relations of the Ministry of Interior at a press conference today. He added that according to the legal prescriptions, the Army of Republic...