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For the fifth year in a row, EU with criticism about air pollution in North Macedonia, no remarkable progress noted

In 2022, just like in the previous years, the European Commission (EC) in its Report on North Macedonia's progress in the EU integration process, once again came up with criticism about air pollution in North Macedonia. In the chapter "Environment and climate change", EU pinpointed the acceleration of the efforts to cut air pollution, both on local and national...

EU with same criticism for North Macedonia as last year: The construction works on Corridors 8 and 10d to be accelerated

European Commission's criticism on the transportation sector of North Macedonia is almost identical as last year, i.e. the sector remains a problem that the government must overcome. The EC's North Macedonia 2022 Report criticizes the same projects as the last year - the construction of the railroad line to Bulgaria, the Road Corridor 10-d from Gradsko to Prilep, the...

Ai Weiwei’s exhibition “In Search of Humanity” at the Albertina Modern Museum in Vienna

Author: Bojan Blazhevski On the 16th of March, at the Albertina Modern Museum in Vienna, a comprehensive retrospective exhibition by the renowned Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei was opened. The exhibition named "In Search of Humanity" gathers in one place Weiwei's artworks coming from different collections at one location, along with his documentary films. This is happening during the...

Hahn: The requests of the civil sector in the Balkans are acceptable

For most part circa 90% of the requests and the recommendations of the civil sector in the Balkans are acceptable, only a way has to be found for their implementation, said the European Commissioner Johannes Hahn, today in Trieste after he attended the meeting between the representatives of the civil sector and the heads of the diplomacies of the...

Ivanov postpones his visit to Australia

The President of the Republic of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanov has decided to postpone his visit to Australia, stated the President’s Cabinet for the state news agency MIA. They indicated that the political situation in the country and tensions between the European Union and Turkey to terminate the agreement for migrants are the reasons why Ivanov postponed his trip to Australia....

“Konrad Adenauer” severely criticizes VMRO-DPMNE

In its analysis “The People Have Decided” the Konrad Adenauer Foundation of the ruling German conservative party CDU, led by chancellor Angela Merkel, has expressed severe criticism for the non-democratic behavior of its “sister” party in Macedonia – VMRO-DPMNE because of its refusal to reform itself, the ignoring of the state institutions and because of the criticism towards foreign...

“Der Standard”: Kurz’s appearance in Skopje came too late as did compensation for the refugee crisis

Austrian Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz’s appearance at the VMRO-DPMNE central rally in Skopje, on Sunday, came too late and was bad compensation to the Macedonian authorities for closing the Macedonian-Greek border and stopping the flow of migrants into Austria and to Western Europe, wrote Vienna newspaper "Der Standard". “Many have asked themselves in recent months: "What did the Macedonian government...

Brussels: Politicians should stop attacking diplomats and start focusing on elections

Macedonian politicians need to refrain from attacking diplomats, ambassadors and other politicians and should behave professionally, urge diplomats from Brussels. Brussels have told the government and the country to focus on conducting fair elections and in the democratic election campaign, politicians should stop playing dirty games and landing low blows, especially because after the election when everyone will have to...

Frangov: The water is clean, but with the new water supply system we want to remove all doubt

The Mayor of Gevgelija, Ivan Frangov, today, stated to “Meta” that the new water supply system in Gevgelija is being constructed because the city needs additional quantities of water. He claims that the water in Gevgelija is clean, but that local authorities want to remove any doubt. “We have decided to build a new water supply system because we need...

Even the floods are divided: For some chaos, for others a Potemkin village

Seven days have passed since the floods hit Skopje, and the Macedonian media have reported the catastrophic floods very differently, especially on how the government is handling the tragedy. While some criticize and say the situation is catastrophic, and organizing aid is very, there have also been reports of food theft and that only those with party connections receive...

The International Community will not accept partial or selective annulments

Last week on Friday, President Gjorgi Ivanov decided to annul the pardons he had granted to 22 politicians out of the 56, a decision which has been strongly criticized by the International Community. Today, as announced, the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) are expected to issue an official comment regarding the annulment of the 22 people. At the Special Prosecutor's Office,...

Greek President harshly attacks Macedonia over refugee crisis

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, sent sharp criticism and accusations towards Macedonian politicians, saying that they are trying to seize the moment of the refugee crisis to make a point over the name dispute. Speaking at an event in Thessaloniki, Pavlopoulos stressed that Greece shows solidarity with the refugees in the country, thanks to the ancient Greek spirit and culture. He also...

Commissioner Hahn criticized on Social networks

After unsuccessful negotiations between the four largest political parties, signatories to the Przhino Agreement, together with EU Commissioner Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations , Johannes Hahn, social networks have launched an avalanche of negative criticism against Hahn where they blame him for being ignorant, bias and unprofessional. https://twitter.com/bakraci/status/688369774779326464 https://twitter.com/SPendarovski/status/688369467475259393 https://twitter.com/stefan_duvnjak/status/688363427685883905 https://twitter.com/Sulimanovic/status/688346336052285440 https://twitter.com/pilula12/status/688343848981000192 https://twitter.com/bakraci/status/688338701768912896 https://twitter.com/Mile_Panika/status/688336769436221443 https://twitter.com/razvigorka/status/688332972559314944 https://twitter.com/ArslaJeMeniBog/status/688320332772589568 https://twitter.com/mojokilington/status/688318283293036544 https://twitter.com/Dimitrov_Nikola/status/688313528189607936 https://twitter.com/VidanaDeSign/status/688310936973742080 https://twitter.com/mnogufina/status/688306875226521600 https://twitter.com/janwicki/status/688284260180967425 https://twitter.com/firerot_/status/688381409677979648 https://twitter.com/Pavlovikj/status/688375542341615616 https://twitter.com/firerot_/status/688362981760053249 https://twitter.com/firerot_/status/688362847764631552 https://twitter.com/svekjichka/status/688348240375336960 https://twitter.com/ArslaJeMeniBog/status/688340881666093056 https://twitter.com/vladokrstevski/status/688314671108108289 https://twitter.com/kezhmanprvi/status/688311896219455488 https://twitter.com/ATANASOP/status/688292623669440512 https://twitter.com/firerot_/status/688292368202596353 https://twitter.com/JakovFendu/status/688281416191221760

LDP: Gruevski is again trying to manipulate Macedonian public

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is again trying to hypocritically manipulate the Macedonian public and the international community, announcing "Plan for new reforms for European Integration of the Republic of Macedonia", which is another shameful and a pathological reaction by him to the extremely serious report of Reinhard Priebe, reacts opposition LDP. "The man who takes the credit that Macedonia now...