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The President and Supreme Commander of Armed Forces, Stevo Pendarovski visited today the members of the army stationed at the country's southern border. Pendarovski stressed that at the moment there is no increase of illegal border crossings by illegal migrants apart from the usual which is usual for this part of the year and said that he doesn't expect...

During today's session, the Macedonian government discussed the report by the Steering Committee for Coordination and Management of the Crisis Management System regarding the situation with the migrant crisis, informs the government press service. The government has adopted many decisions that start from the fact that Macedonia has already has an established system for managing the migrant crisis...

The Crisis Management Center has called a meeting concerning the managing of a potential wave of refugees, informs the government. "Macedonia established a system from the previous refugee crisis and this system is ready and functional to respond to all challenges that Macedonia would face as a transiting country. In 2019, the state of crisis at the Southern...

The minister of Transportation and Communications, Goran Sugareski, informed today about the details from the Memorandum for understanding between Macedonia and Bulgaria regarding the development of a railroad network. He stressed that the signing of this Memorandum is a precondition for a sustainable economic growth and development in the region. -With this Memorandum, we are obliging in the...

Revolted by the non-payment of subventions, between 12:00 and 13:00, today, farmers will block various roads in the country. They demand to meet the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, Mihail Cvetkov by Friday, the Minister of Finance, Kiril Minoski, and the manager of the Payment Agency, Igor Zlatkov. "We demand meetings at these three institutions to see who...

The Refugee ordeal in Idomeni is deteriorating as fast as the weather. About 12,000 refugees are stuck in the mud and garbage in the refugee camp amid heavy rain which is expected to last until Wednesday. In desperation a small group of refugee children have laid down on the rail tracks begging for the borders to be opened. The scene...

Another line of wired fence is being raised on the southern border by the Army of Macedonia to strengthen security along the border in the wake of the crackdown on leaks of refugees in to Europe. The network of wires is being set up intensively left and right of quota 59. ARM at the end of November last year began building...

In a video story broadcasted by the US television network CNN, from the Greek side of the border, one can clearly hear migrants chanting "Macedonia, Macedonia" while waiting at a petrol station near the Greek-Macedonia border-crossing Bogorodica / Idomeni. In the longer video one can see countless buses parked while migrants await registration and sign statements to confirm their final...

The number of refugees in Idomeni is on the rise as the border crossing remains closed. Fear has begun to grow in Greece because of the decision to close the Macedonian border to refugees may be more than just temporary. Although the official explanation is that the border is closed at the request of Slovenia due to a malfunction on the...

The Department of Border Affairs at the Ministry of Interior, during the year that is now behind us had extensive duties, primarily caused by the huge influx of migrants from countries of the Near and Middle East and North Africa stated the Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski after meeting with Police officers at the border crossing 'Deve Bair' which...

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, in Skopje today discussed the migrant crisis. The meeting concluded that the new challenges facing Europe are a consequence of the decisions of a growing number of countries who will only accept the refugees and migrants who come from regions affected by war, but not economic migrants...

The situation on the northern and southern border of the state is normal, said the Interior Ministry, adding that the registration of refugees is normal and there was no-one being held in detention centres. According to the Interior Ministry, the border with Greece, there are about 700 people who are not allowed into the country because they do not qualify...

Greek opposition New Democracy criticized the Macedonian decision to raise a fence on the border with Greece to a European level. The MEP of the right-wing party, Maria Spiraki refered a question to the European Commission's decision on whether raising a fence is in line with the EU guidelines in dealing with the refugee crisis. Spiraki goes further, seeking an...