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Tusk will visit Macedonia next week

The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk will be visiting Macedonia next week, however the visit has yet to be confirmed officially. The exact date when Tusk will be arriving is still unknown. Details of the date and agenda will be announced on Friday, “Meta” has learned. Various diplomatic sources say the purpose for his visit to Macedonia is due...

After Kurz, Szijjártó will pay a double visit to Macedonia

Hungarian Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó this morning came to Macedonia on a state visit, and met with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Poposki, and tonight he too will be a guest at a VMRO-DPMNE election rally. Mr. Szijjártó just like his Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz, who this week took part in a VMRO-DPMNE rally, and then had a bilateral meeting with...

“Der Standard”: Kurz’s appearance in Skopje came too late as did compensation for the refugee crisis

Austrian Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz’s appearance at the VMRO-DPMNE central rally in Skopje, on Sunday, came too late and was bad compensation to the Macedonian authorities for closing the Macedonian-Greek border and stopping the flow of migrants into Austria and to Western Europe, wrote Vienna newspaper "Der Standard". “Many have asked themselves in recent months: "What did the Macedonian government...

UN Should Find Comprehensive Solution For The Refugee Crisis, Says MFA

The Republic of Macedonia is committed to dealing with the migrant crisis while ensuring humane treatment, and in accordance with national laws and international conventions on human rights, reads the statement of the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein criticized the Macedonian authorities for their systematic...

Kotzias – Poposki: If there is no trust between partners, they can not get married

Today in Skopje, the Foreign Ministers of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Poposki and Nikos Kotzias discussed confidence-building measures and the possible development and expansion of the railway line from Bitola to Lerin and the construction of the gas pipeline from Thessaloniki to Macedonia . The name dispute, as previously announced, was not part of the conversation between the two Foreign...

Ban Ki-moon in Athens Listening to the Greek’s Position on the Name Dispute

Today in Athens, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon spoke with the Greek government about the refugee crisis, the name dispute and the Cyprus issue. This morning Ban Ki-moon held talks with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, where they focused their discussion on the refugee crisis. Later during midday he had a meeting with the Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias,...

Hahn: Przhino Agreement is not dead, and is important for elections

The Przhino Agreement has a future and it is important that the elections will be accepted and supported by the International Community, said EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, in an interview with "Radio Free Europe". “It has a future. We have experienced that usually all the various deadlines were met as originally agreed, or were...

Kotzias: At this point in time we will not discuss the name dispute

The name dispute is not up for discussion at the moment due to the of the internal political crisis in Macedonia. This was stated by Greece's Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias before its present face to face meeting with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Poposki. The two ministers met on the sidelines of a regional meeting on the refugee crisis, which is...

New tensions in Idomeni, refugees push old wagon on the railway towards armored vehicles

The situation remains tense in Idomeni after yesterday's clashes. Today a group of refugees gathered again at the fence and demanded the Macedonian police open the border. Today's communication, however, is still calm. Refugees demanded the Macedonian police to let them through, commenting that they were not terrorists. The response from the Macedonian side was that the border can not be...

Greece has sent two notes of protest to Macedonia due to incidents on the border

Greece has sent a note of protest to Macedonia, condemning the violent incidents with the refugees at the border. According to a statement by the Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Greek Ambassador to Macedonia, Theocharis Lalakos, delivered two demarches to the Macedonian authorities concerning the situation in Idomeni. Lalakos noted that the use of violence will not help solve the refugee...

Three police officers injured during clash with migrants

Three police officers were injured in the clash this afternoon on the Macedonian-Greek border, where a police officers and a group of migrants clashed violently when the migrants tried to cross the border, the Interior Ministry confirmed for "Meta". The police officers were immediately transferred to the medical center in Gevgelija. Earlier, police threw tear gas to clear a group of...

Refugees in Idomeni and Piraeus refuse to leave their makeshift camps

Macedonian police threw tear gas to clear a group of refugees protesting at the fence in Idomeni. Greek media reported that some of the refugees were unconscious and were have trouble breathing because of the incident. Refugees protested again this morning on the fence demanding the border be opened. Yesterday a leaflet in Arabic circulated around the camp, inviting refugees to...

Pavlopoulos has stern criticism for the Macedonian Government for attempting to falsify history

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos again sent a stern message to the Macedonian Government that attempts to falsify history and our attitude towards the refugee crisis, our country will have not have a European future. In the message for tomorrow's national holiday, Greek Independence Day, Pavlopoulos focused on the refugee crisis, spoke about Greek solidarity, urged Europe to remember its core...

The Southern border ‘legally’ open, but actually it is closed

The Steering Committee’s meeting over the migrant crisis lasted late into the night, due to the new circumstances and measures introduced by the countries of the Balkan route, which was confirmed for "Meta" by the Center for Crisis Management (CCM) and the Ministry of Interior ( MOI) that they had not adopted new measures, but had confirmed the previous...

Refugee Torment: Two hours wait for food – doctor, toilets – How many days to get into Macedonia!?

In a desperate situation, without the basic living conditions, in thin tents on open ground 14,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq are spread across a field in Idomeni, waiting on European leaders, who are in Brussels deciding whether to "seal" the Balkan Route, and what to do with the thousands of refugees stranded in Idomeni. Even though the conditions...

Tusk – Ivanov: Synchronized action is needed to address the refugee problem

Today, President Gjorge Ivanov met with the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. Ivanov’s Cabinet announced that at the meeting, they will focus on efforts to achieve a common European solution for the refugee and migrant crisis. “We require and expect a decision from the European Council, and we have no interest in letting the entire burden fall only...

“BBC” provoke Poposki: Did you enter politics to throw tear gas at children?

“Your country fired tear gas on many people, many of them were children. Now I’m just wandering, is that why you went into politics for?” Provocatively asked the BBC journalist from Newsnight to Nikola Poposki, the Foreign Minister to Macedonia. “I don’t think this is a fair judgment”, replied Poposki. According to the Foreign Minister, Macedonia is trying to implement all...

In the next 10 days Kurz, Zaorálek and Hahn will be visiting Macedonia

This week, Austrian and Czech Foreign Ministers Sebastian Kurz and Lubomír Zaorálek, will be visiting Macedonia, where their main focus will be on the refugee crisis. The visit of Kurz in Macedonia is part of his tour of the Western Balkans. Kurz two days ago he visited Sarajevo and yesterday went to Belgrade. As well as visiting Skopje, he will...

Thousands of refugees stranded on the Greek side of Bogordica and are waiting to cross the border into Macedonia

In Greece the mass panic is increasing, as the State believes it will be stuck with thousands of refugees and migrants. The Greek media have been reporting that at the border-crossing Bogorodica, or to be more precise Idomeni, which is on the Greek side, is extremely crowded because Macedonian authorities are only letting a small number of refugees and migrants...

VMRO-DPMNE have hired an American consulting firm to promote Gruevski

The ruling party VMRO - DPMNE has hired an American consulting agency "New Partners", which according to the agreement, will promote Macedonia and the parties President and Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, writes the American weekly "PR Week". The weekly refers to documents published on the website of the State Agency for the registration of foreign associates at the Ministry of Justice...