3 August 2021
From the morning, a complete ban for movement in the forest areas is in force in North Macedonia and the Government pleads the citizens not to go into the forests – both for their own safety and to prevent any further wildfires. The wildfire around the town of Kochani that ravaged last night has been […]
29 July 2017
The United States is working to see that Macedonia becomes part of NATO, whether through support for democracy-building reforms or exercises such as “Dragoon Guardian 17”, said the US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily, in Kumanovo, during a joint military exercise by the Macedonian and US military. Ambassador Baily pointed out <>that next week, […]
22 May 2017
Serbia, which has 36.000 soldiers, has four times more military power than Macedonia, Albania or Kosovo, while Macedonia only has 8.000 troops. At the bottom is Montenegro with 1.853 soldiers. However, Kosovo has a little more than the others, due to the presence of 150 members of the special anti-terrorist units ROSU (Regional Operational Support […]
10 March 2017
Bank notes are used throughout the whole country, and writing in another language on them, apart from Macedonian goes against the Constitution”, said the leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev while answering a reporter’s question after the presentation of the new government’s program. This, said Zaev, was the position of constitutional experts the party had consulted. […]
14 March 2016
Around 600 to 700 migrants from the thousands who have been stranded at the camp in Idomeni for the last ten days on the Greek side of the border, this afternoon managed to illegally cross the border into Macedonia and arrived at the village of Moin near Gevgelija, confirmed the Ministry of iInterior for “Meta”. […]
2 December 2015
“Currently there are 110 Macedonian citizens who are in Syria, 69 have returned, and so far 25 have died. Instead of the police using their resources for monitoring and prevention of possible undesirable attacks from such people, our resources are on the border dealing with the migrant and refugee crisis, ” said President Gjorge Ivanov […]
25 August 2015
Bulgaria is sending armored vehicles at four border crossings with Macedonia to help its border police to deal with a sudden flow of refugees. “We want to fortify the border preemptively to help the border police,” explain from the Bulgarian ministry. A total of 25 soldiers and several armored vehicles have headed to the Bulgarian […]
22 August 2015
Bulgaria has dispatched army personnel on the borders with Macedonia and Greece due to the critical situation with the migrants, announced the government of Bulgaria. Bulgarian media reports that the Ministry of Defense will propose concrete measures which will enable the army and police to better guard the state border. The decision to dispatch troops […]
21 August 2015
Members of the Republic of Macedonia Army (ARM) are going to join their colleagues from the special police who are guarding the south border after the Government proclaimed an emergency situation due to the uncontrolled flow of migrants. The Ministry of Interior (MVR) announced that a limited number of illegal migrants are allowed to enter […]
21 August 2015
Declaring a crisis and ordering army soldiers to the southern and northern borders is too early for a situation that can be helped through a better organization by the government, comment experts on the decision of the government to heighten control at the borders. Jasmin Redzepi, activist and humanitarian work of the NGO Legis, says […]
