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Electric vehicle charger in Skopje; Photo: Meta.mk's photo archive North Macedonia’s budget for 2023 does not provide financial resources for subsidies to the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicles, although such a promise was made by the Macedonian government at the end of 2018. On 15th November 2018, the Government promised to introduce subsidies for purchasing electric and hybrid vehicles,...

Organic food production in North Macedonia is constantly decreasing, although the demand for organic products is growing from year to year. According to the data of the State Statistical Office, in the last decade, the areas dedicated for organic production have been steadily decreasing. Not once have they surpassed one percent of the overall agricultural area in the country,...

Six out of the eight causes of soil degradation result from the agricultural practices. The overuse of chemicals and the inappropriate tilling and other soil cultivation destroy one of the most important natural resources, that together with the clean air and drinking water, must be preserved. The healthy soil is irreplaceable and essential to sustain life and produce safe...

Zhivka Gjurchinovska is a woman who has no problem driving a tractor. She is a diligent farmer and a mother of three. They live in the village of Tumchevishte, in the Gostivar area in the northwestern part of North Macedonia. Gjurchinovska has been a farmer for the past 20 years and a professional farmer in the past 11 year. She...

The list of electricity subsidies beneficiaries in North Macedonia should be expanded to also include families with low incomes, families with only one family member employed, but also the unemployed and the workers made redundant. At the moment, this right for monthly support in the amount of MKD1 000 is only given to around 30 000 people that are...

During yesterday's conference titled "Vision for Energy Transition 2040," Kreshnik Bekteshi, the Minister of Economy announced that this year North Macedonia will ban the import of used cars below the EURO 5 standard of gas emissions. "This year, the norms for imported cars in our country will be expanded. Regarding the measures, we are already implementing several measures for installing...

There aren't any subsidies from the state budget for 2021 for the citizens who would like to buy electric or hybrid vehicles, the assets planed for subsidizing the installing of LPG fuel systems in old vehicles are projected to only 210.000 EUR for the next 12 months, the eco stickers for the vehicles weren't implemented this winter, and there...

Through the Program for the support of print media, the Government of North Macedonia has provided financial aid for some of the media outlets. "The financial aid has been approved to those print media outlets that have met all of the obligations towards the state and the employees for 2019. In accordance with the 2020 state budget, the print media...

North Macedonia's Ministry of Economy's budget for 2021 will be 826 million MKD or 13.4 million EUR, and 190 million MKD (3 million EUR) are planned for various subsidies, informed the Minister of Economy  Kreshnik Nekteshi in a press conference, when he presented the Ministry of Economy's draft-budget for the next year. He said that for part of the subsidies...

The Government of North Macedonia will continue with the financial support for Wiz Air for establishing new flights from both Macedonian airports as soon as the low budget airline resumes the flights in accordance with the conditions and statutes planned by the Agreement for the period between 2019 and 2022, informs the Ministry of Transport and Communications of North...

Media reforms in North Macedonia were very low on the agenda of policy and decision makers in the first quarter of 2020, states the report titled "Monitoring of Media Reform Process and the Work of AVMS and MRT" by the Media Development Center. COVID-19 pushed out the issue of media reforms from the agenda and an exception from this...

The media and the self-regulation, the threats and lawsuits that the journalists face, the fake news, media literacy, and the financial support for the media are all present in the electoral manifestos of two of the biggest political parties that will be participating in North Macedonia's parliamentary elections on the 15th of July. In VMRO-DPMNE's electoral manifesto titled "Renewal of...

The coronavirus pandemic has had an enormous negative effect on the functioning of public transportation in Skopje and the Public Transportation Company-Skopje (Javno soobrakjajno pretprijatie - Skopje - JSP -Skopje). The long lockdown hours, closed schools, and colleges, many people working from their homes, including people's fears to use public transportation, in a period of three months have caused...

The Government has three conditions under which it will fully subsidize the social security contributions for the employees at various media outlets, television, radio broadcasters, printed media, and Internet portals. This was stressed at today's press conference by the Deputy Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani and the Minister for Communications, Accountability, and Transparency, Robert Popovski. The first condition...

During yesterday's session, the Government adopted a Decree to subsidize the social security contributions for media employees. The Decree determines the conditions, the ways, and the procedures for covering the social security contributions for media employees who worked and reported about the COVID-19 situation during the state of emergency i.e. during June, July, and August 2020, informed the Government's...

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...

With the budget rebalance of the City of Skopje, another 3.5 million euros are planned as alleged subsidies to the Public Transport Company, but that money will end up for the Panorama Wheel, said Dragi Davcevski, SDSM’s coordinator for Consultancy Group and the Coalition Council of the City of Skopje, as well. He stressed that the Consultancy Group that he...

"Buying a House for the Youth" is a new project that the Government will start from February 1, 2016, which at today's press conference was announced by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. The aim of the project, as the Prime Minister put it, is the youth up to 35 years old should have easier access to getting their own homes, and...

The Ministry of Finance gave 227 million denari in subsidies to 8711 farmers. The subsidies were mostly given to milk producers. For the production and sale of sheep, cow and goat milk, 8562 farmers received 206 million denari. The Ministry has paid 1.4 million denari to support the production of garden produce in green houses as well as by...

Minister of Labor and Social Policy Dime Spasov today announced the measure subsidized employment of people at social risk, as well as assistance for the private sector with direct subsidies to create jobs for these categories. Through subsidized employment of persons with social risk will include recipients of social assistance, victims of domestic violence, persons who had the status of...