4 September 2018
Today, Economy Minister Kreshnik Bekteshi said that Macedonia will establish a “one stop shop” for joint border control with Albania, and its goal is to increase trade cooperation between the two countries. “Macedonia is fully committed to increasing cooperation with countries in the region, establishing a common economic zone, which will increase competitiveness for our […]
4 July 2017
The USA does not support any changes to the borders in the Balkans, said Hoyt Brian Yee, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. “The borders of the Balkan countries are clearly defined, internationally recognized and it is not a controversial issue. Changing the borders in the Balkans will not […]
31 March 2017
If the process of euro-integration of all the Balkan countries fails, then the discussion over borders will have to be re-visited, said the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, in an interview for the web portal Dialogplus.ch. As for the situation in the region, the Albanian Prime Minister stated that political conflicts exist, which according […]
15 November 2016
Macedonia was one of the topics discussed by US President Barack Obama and his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos. The Greek President repeated his views and accusations against the Macedonian government to Obama, criticizing the country for trying to adopt Greek history as its own. “The fact is that a neighbouring state, who are demanding a […]
17 March 2016
President Gjorge Ivanov, yesterday and today telephoned several Presidents and Prime Ministers from member states of the European Union and the Balkan corridor regarding the migrant crisis and discussed the incident that occurred on March 14, when 1,500 migrants from Greece illegally entered Macedonian territory, in the village of Moin near Gevgelija. As announced by Ivanov’s […]
4 December 2015
This morning tension and riots sparked up again it was reported Idomeni, the Greek-Macedonian border. After a group of economic migrants tried to break though trying to enter Macedonian territory Riots and tensions again this morning were reported in Idomeni the Greek-Macedonian border after a group of economic migrants tried to break and enter on […]
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
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 […]
20 August 2015
The government held meeting at which it declared an emergency situation for the south and north borders due to the heightened influx of migrants in the country. This was reported by Ivo Kotevski, deputy Minister of public relations of the Ministry of Interior at a press conference today. He added that according to the legal […]
