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Energy sector investments in North Macedonia were put to a halt during the COVID crisis, will there be any boost during 2021?

During 2020, the investments in new energy facilities from renewable sources of energy (RSE) were more than modest. For 2021, the Government announced very ambitious and significant projects that will start with issuing public calls during the first half of this year. During last year, the energy projects remained in the shadow of priority health-economic measures for dealing with the...

Declaration of Shar Mountain a national park became hostage to concessions for hydropower plants

The capture of small rivers and sentencing to death the whole biodiversity in the surrounding area is a consequence of the enormous number of concessions for micro hydropower plants that have no serious contribution to the country's energy resources. The civil society organizations appeal to the Government of North Macedonia, even to its own detriment, to terminate the concessions...

Greece supports Macedonia in joining the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative

Greece supports Macedonia's bid to join the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative, reported the Macedonian Information Agency (MIA). “Greek Deputy Foreign Minister George Karahalios, in a letter to the European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn and Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Crețu, announced Greece's intention to support FYROM's bid in the framework of the European Union Strategy for the Adriatic (EUSAIR)”,...

Macedonia and Bulgaria agreed and signed a memorandum of cooperation in important sectors

Today the governments of Macedonia and Bulgaria met in Strumica, and after a joint governmental meeting, signed a series of agreements on cooperation in defense, telecommunications, tourism, energy and the economy. The Ministers of Defense, Radmila Šekerinska and Krasimir Karakachanov, signed a Protocol for cooperation in conducting training for ARM members at military schools in Bulgaria and intensifying the cooperation. By...