4 December 2023
Social networks profiles of citizens of North Macedonia increasingly show the black ribbon on the profile pictures, after the Ministry of Interior (MoI) tonight confirmed the death of the 14-year-old Vanja Gjorchevska, kidnapped 7 days ago. The ministry confirmed that the girl who was abducted in the capital Skopje on Monday was found dead today […]
18 July 2023
Printscreen from the online campaign for positive promotion of the party bots in Serbia | Source: Instagram profile of Aleksandar Vučić Someone is a proud political party bot, while another is praising the party leader and attacking his opponents, under the threat of losing his/her job. Yet, one thing is certain – the number […]
25 March 2023
The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia promised in its Work Programme that in the period 2022-2024 a gradual ban on the use of plastic bags in retail in the country will be introduced. The government fulfilled this promise. On December 1, 2021, the Decision to ban plastic bags on the market in the […]
8 March 2023
(Main photo: Commercial for the Belt and Road Initiative in one of the Macedonian trains purchased from China reading “Speed up the Belt initiative, Charming Macedonia”) It took North Macedonia only a few years to dramatically change its bilateral relationship with China. In 1999, it was the sole European country that recognized Taiwan as an […]
8 March 2023
In the cold and rainy periods, I was waiting in the rain in front of the cafeteria building for one of the kitchen staff to get me my meal and come back. If there was an access ramp, I would have gone myself into the cafeteria and would have eaten my meals with other students. […]
7 February 2023
The result of the public-private partnership between the State Bulgarian University from Veliko Tarnovo “Ss. Ss. Cyril and Methodius” (VTU) and the Macedonian private International Slav University (MSU) is the offer of master studies for Macedonian students taught by Bulgarian professors. Apart from educational and scientific cooperation, both universities are connected with Russian links which […]
24 December 2022
“Makedonski Telekom” (Macedonian Telecom) and “A1 Makedonija” (A1 Macedonia) telecoms are currently modernizing their complete mobile telephony infrastructure and working on the implementation of their 5G networks in North Macedonia. Unlike all the previous instances of a technological makeover, North Macedonia as a member of NATO and signatory of the Clean Network Program initiated by […]
13 December 2022
(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 6th of December 2022) Metamorphosis Foundation for the 18th time organized the international e-Society.mk conference, which started on the 6th of December. The two-day conference in the Marriott hotel in Skopje with the motto “Cyber Resilience for Freedom and Security” started […]
12 December 2022
The direct investments in the economy, infrastructure, telecommunications, media, the academic cooperation with universities and the operations of the “Confucius” institutes are strategic instruments of the Chinese influence, not only in North Macedonia, but in other countries as well. Macedonian media do not report enough on the Chinese “soft power” in the country, while the […]
8 December 2022
(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 6th of December 2022) The statement of Kreshnik Bekteshi, the Minister of Economy of North Macedonia, given at the end of January 2021 that by the end of the last year the import of vehicles below the EURO 5 gas emissions […]
29 November 2022
The “competition” of Skopje and the other cities in North Macedonia in breaking the world records for air pollution has commenced. While the data from “Iqair” indicates that Skopje is at the top of the world list of air pollution, together with the Asian cities New Delhi, Hanoi, Lahore or Calcutta, but also some cities […]
2 November 2022
The attendees at the Inclusion Festival that took place last week in Skopje, North Macedonia, couldn’t stop their tears from falling. Their tears also dropped with hilarity when after the workshop for creative expression and the workshop for communication skills for persons with or without disabilities, the young dancers and actors took to the stage. […]
25 October 2022
Spending time with animals fills oneself with positive energy, cures disease, and saves lives. Therapy methods involving horses, dogs, and cats have been long known all over the world. Since recently, the Countryside ranch in Rankovce Municipality, in the northeast of North Macedonia is the place where any animal lover can come and spend a […]
20 October 2022
So far, the Government of North Macedonia doesn’t have any stable option for buying gas for the central heating system in the capital Skopje, apart from purchasing gas from the Russian state company Gazprom through the gas pipeline from Bulgaria to Kumanovo. But, seeing what happened at the end of the last heating season and […]
16 October 2022
Expired deadlines and complacent municipalities – this is how the implementation of the Law on youth participation and youth policies in North Macedonia can be described in brief. Only 12% of the municipalities in North Macedonia have formed local youth councils, although they were obliged by law to do it by January 2021. Eleven municipalities […]
13 October 2022
Let’s feed the economies, not the landfills. This is the motto of the Food Bank Macedonia, which for 12 years has been fighting tirelessly against dumping food as waste and against hunger in North Macedonia. Meta.mk talked with Dushko Hristov, founder and general manager of this organization, during a period when they were preparing the […]
29 September 2022
The levels of transparency and accountability of the state institutions in North Macedonia vary widely. Some of the state organs rank high on the list of accountable institutions, and are even among the best in the region, while others are at the bottom of the same list and almost unreachable for the citizens. Likewise, some […]
29 August 2022
Portugal has over 10 million citizens and even 21 food banks, which can feed up to 4% of this EU member country’s total population. Their main goal is to fight against throwing all kinds of food as waste and to divert the secured surplus from food distributors to those who need it most – the […]
26 August 2022
North Macedonia obtained a loan from the Exim Bank of China for the construction of the highways Kičevo – Ohrid, and Miladinovci – Štip, and now we are repaying the loan installments expensively due to the record strengthening of the US dollar against the Macedonian denar. In the meantime, after more than eight years and […]
17 August 2022
The wide sandy beaches of Lake Prespa in the very south of the Republic of North Macedonia are ideal for tourists in the summer months, but only until the visitors decide to replace sunbathing with swimming in the lake. Silt, algae, muddy and shallow water are everyday experience of the visitors at Lake Prespa, and […]
