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We are all poisoned, but the measures will have to wait

Pollution in Skopje, measured at 1 pm, is 161.83 micrograms per cubic meter, which is three times more than the allowed 50 micrograms. Currently, according to data on the website of the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, it reads that very high levels of...

SDSM: AEC will spend one million euros on promotion in 2015

Agency for Electronic Communications, in its annual draft work plan for 2015, plans to spend 60 million denars, i.e. one million euros for a promotional campaign, emphasized Goran Trajanovski, member of the Commission on Information Society of SDSM at today’s press conference. - The Agency...

Gruevski – Davutoğlu: Turkey is a sincere friend of Macedonia

In the two-day official visit to Macedonia, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had a tete-a-tete meeting with his host, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. After the meeting, at a press conference, Gruevski said that Republic of Turkey is a longtime friend of Macedonia and unreservedly...

Wax figure of Vancho Mihajlov causes major reactions in Shtip

The footage with the last interview of Mihajlov caused numerous negative reactions with a demand to remove the wax figure of Vancho Mihajlov from the newly opened Museum in Shtip. The controversial character, whose figure is alongside those of Goce Delchev and Dame Gruev...

800 pensioners are freelancers in the Association of pensioners!

About 800 pensioners are given a fee as a reward for additional work in local and municipal boards of the Association of pensioners in Macedonia. Their fees range from 3,000 to 5,000 denars in basic local communities, 8,000 denars in municipal organizations, up to...

Macedonian journalists will be able to report intimidation in Strasbourg

  The new online platform which the Council of Europe prepared along with the European Federation of Journalists (EFN), Reporters without Borders and other international news organizations and through which European journalists can report any type of intimidation or assault, will be available to the...

The most vulnerable will suffer: Protest against the Law on fees

“We won’t pay”, “no for the state racket”, “social justice”, “it won’t pass”, “together we are stronger”, “we will triumph” were the slogans with which protesters today told the Government that they disagree with adoption of the new Law on obligatory social insurance. The...

Poposki: Relations with neighbors and economic diplomacy are priorities in 2015

Numerous diplomatic and consular offices contributed to the decision to invest in Macedonia, as the one of the US Capkon, in which our consul in New York was intensively involved. We should mostly measure 2014 in that direction and it is very successful and...

At the open session, Government announces new investments and employments

  New investment, job creation, as well as reforms in public administration are among the topics at the open session of the Government on all reforms and activities to be included in the 2015 Action Plan. Minister of Defense Zoran Jolevski announced hiring of 250 professional...

Government passes the state exam

At today’s open session of the Government, reforms of Law on higher education, which envisage the introduction of a state exam for students, were passed. Thus, the public debate on this law, which will be sent to the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia,...

Students supported by reputable university professors

Several professors from world renowned universities wrote a letter to the students of informal student organization “Student plenum” as a support of the student protests against the introduction of a state exam. “When the institutions of higher education have become subject to state control, the...

Museum of VMRO activists opens in Shtip

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski today visited Shtip, where he attended the opening of the Museum of VMRO activists from Stip and the region in the period from 1883 to 1934 and officially visited the new transmission line of MEPSO which will go from Shtip...

Protests didn’t change Government’s mind

  Legislative amendments which project paymentof contributions for pension and health insurance by the freelancers will be enforced from 1st of January. During today’s visit of Shtip, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said that the Government remains committed to the legal amendments to force employers to...

Officials will also pay contributions for additional income

The public got used SDSM to try and block every positive measure, regardless how useful it is for the citizens, especially workers, and by twisting thesis, it wants to manipulate the workers, reads the response from the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy for...

SDSM: Why are the budgets of the pension and health insurance empty?

  The new legislation will lead employers to seek to lower their contracts for work under the minimum wage to avoid additional payments for health and pension insurance, said Mila Carovska, President of Commission for Labor and Social Policy of SDSM, at a press conference. -...

Another Macedonian citizen killed in Syria

  Another Albanian from Macedonia, who was a member of the jihadists of the Islamic State, was killed in Syria. E.A. from Skopje Indzikovo, 23, went to fight the Syrian front three months ago. This is the 13th Macedonian citizen who died in battle in...

SUT says “no” to the state exam, Ademi announces a pilot application of the law

  “No” to the state exam said students and professors at the State University in Tetovo today. At the public debate, on which even the Minister of Education and Science Abdilakim Ademi participated, they emphasized that the proposal threatens the autonomy of universities and it...

More than 100 items at the open Government session on Sunday

 On Sunday, the Government will hold an open meeting which will be transmitted live through the media and on which there will be more than 100 items, informed Government spokesman Aleksandar Gjorgjiev. According to him is expected that number to increase in the following...

Stavreski: Capital in the financial zone will come from a reliable source

  In the international financial zone in Macedonia, every capital will come from a reliable source. The regulation should be completed in the first quarter next year, and the zone should be initiated in summer 2015. The first companies or financial associations are expected to...

SDSM: VMRO-DPMNE is responsible for political lynching of opponents

Every new decision of the so-called Commission for verification of facts is further confirmation that the Government has turned the process of lustration into political satanization of opponents, reads the statement of SDSM. “The purpose of the so-called “Commission for verification of facts” is not...