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12 Czech border policemen stationed in North Macedonian – Greek border have tested positive to COVID-19
Twelve citizens of the Czech Republic, members of the border police contingent in North Macedonia, tested positive for the new coronavirus. All of them, along with the persons who they had contacts with will now have to self-isolate for the next 14 days.
Dr. Sasho Olumche, epidemiologist from the border town of Gevgelija, says that the facility where the officers...
Negotiations with Greece about the building of the interconnective gas pipeline are about to commence
The negotiations between Macedonia and Greece regarding the building of the interconnective gas pipeline are expected to start very soon. During its yesterday's session, the Government adopted the proposal for starting a procedure for leading negotiations for concluding an agreement between both countries and authorized the Minister of Economy Kreshnik Bekteshi, as the Head of the delegation of our...
The new toll gates near Gevgelija angered the people from the surrounding area
The locals from the Gevgelija area villages of Miravci, Smokvica, and Prdejci demand to be freed from paying pay toll that will be put into use in the forthcoming days. The citizens that are traveling every day by using the highway to Gevgelija and back think that the pay toll in the amount of 100 denars in one direction...
MC VMRO-DPMNE Gevgelija: The Refugee Strategy is an introduction to ethnic and religious clashes
What is surprising, is the fact that the SDSM led government is blindingly obeying orders and directions provided by international organizations for the integration of refugees and at the same time it forgets the socially vulnerable categories of citizens to whom at the parliamentary elections in 2016 were promised a life in abundance, said Andon Saramandov, the president of...
The people of the city of Gevgelija will decide today whether new mines will be opened today
The citizens of the city of Gevgelija will have to make a decision whether they are "for" or "against" the decision for opening new mines on the territory of its municipality. As was announced by the media, in the past period, the government has approved concessions to international companies for geological explorations on two locations in the municipality of...
Migrants break through fences near Gevgelija, police use tear gas to force them back
This morning, a large group of migrants, who have been stranded at Idomeni, used a makeshift battering ram with which they managed to break through the wire fencing on the southern border with Greece, and enter onto the Macedonian side, so reports the "BBC".
The British state Broadcasting Company reported that on video footage from the site, one can see...
Tensions grow in Gevgelija, as taxi drivers block the railroad tracks
Tensions grow in Gevgelija after two taxi drivers were injured after they had put up a blockade on the railroad tracks, reported Nova TV.
Taxi drivers have become increasingly angry because the Macedonian Railway as well as the institutions violated the terms of their agreement, and are again transporting refugees through the day.
According to information from the field, a taxi driver...
Taxi drivers from Gevgelija have blocked the railroad because of the prohibition to carry migrants
The Association of Licensed Taxi Drivers "Auto Taxi" in Gevgelija, this morning began a protest at the ban on them transporting migrants from Gevgelija to Kumanovo, the Ministry of the Interior has said. Members of the taxi drivers association, using its vehicles, and their drivers as a human barrier to block the railway bridge on railway line at Suva...
The MOI told “Meta”: French have asked for assistance, for ongoing checks about the Paris bomber
Le Bureau Central Nation' (BCN) an organ of French Security has served notice on all member states of Interpol, including the Macedonian Republic, of a request for all members too agree to comply with specific requests for various checks from Databases that can be used in the French investigation relating to more possible perpetrators, organizers or facilitators in the...
No end to the arsenic fever in Gevgelija
The water in Gevgelija contains 10 times more arsenic than the allowed limit, and for 37 months the State Agency for Food and Veterinary Directorate has issued a decision banning the use of water from wells in Moin, from where the water of Gevgelija comes from. Three years after the discovery of arsenic in Gevgelija there has been no...
Doctors Chambers: We will determine the cause of death of the mother and baby in Gevgelija
The Doctors' Chamber of Macedonia confirmed the case where a woman in labour and her baby died in the Department of Gynecology at the General Hospital in Gevgelija.
In a press release, they said, they will take all measures necessary, and use the extent of their powers to determine what happened and seek to find out whether the tragedy occurred...
Johannes Hahn will visit the refugee camp in Gevgelija tomorrow
EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, who is a two-day visit to Macedonia on Tuesday visited camp refugees in Gevgelija.
Today he has a slightly different agenda he announced, at 12 am he is to meet with Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, and at 12.30 with SDSM leader Zoran Zaev and half an hour later he...
6.000 refugees pass through Macedonia daily
Over the past day and night, more than 4,000 refugees with seven special trains were transferred from the reception camp in Gevgelija to the northern border, Tabanovce. However, this morning two more special trains were packed and transported another 1,000 migrants to the northern border, reports officals from the railway station in Gevgelija.
UNHCR estimates that more than 6,000 migrants...
More than 6,000 migrants are travelling with buses and taxis due to the train strike
Buses and taxis transport migrants from Gevgelija to Tabanovce because of the strike by drivers from "Macedonian Railways".
Latest news says from the train station in Gevgelija, 2,000 migrants left on special trains, while the remaining 4,000 migrants in the camp went with buses and taxis.
According to estimates, in the course of the day, 5,000 - 6,000 refugees are expected...
New migrant reception center opens in Gevgelija
During the third meeting today at the Headquarters for Crisis Management, which took place in the Crisis Management Center (CUK), the attendees proposed measures for enabling the new reception center for migrants in Gevgelija that was opened today.
“During the meeting, besides viewing the course of our latest activities which are part of the Crisis management system, we also proposed...
Chavkov: The EU doesn’t have a consistent solution for dealing with this humanitarian catastrophe; Our efforts can only go as far as chipping at the issue
The problem with the refugees is a world issue, it isn’t a Macedonian nor a Greek issue. This is why we need an international reaction. These were the words of the Minister of Interior, Mitko Chavkov, who added that for the present, it seems like there is no solution nor is there anything of that sort on the horizon.
-The...
4000 Migrants overflowed Gevgelija – The Government lifted the border blockade
Just few hours after groups of migrants penetrated the police cordon on the Macedonia-Greece border and made their way into the country, the police lifted the blockade and allowed everyone else to enter, report human rights activists and news agencies. Behind the border, in the no-border zone between Greece and Macedonia about 200 people stayed.
According to information from the...
In Gevgelija, twelve women migrants suffered miscarriages in one day
At the moment, nearby the train station in Gevgelija, crews are working on a resting area that can accommodate 160 people. The area will be intended for women, children and people who have become frail from the journey. The area will operate 24 hours and will be under constant police surveillance. There are going to be twelve shower cabins...
Meta spent a day with the migrants in Gevgelija: A kilo of bananas is four euro, a bottle of water is one
Hundreds of migrants are waiting to give their documents to the police at the railroad station in Gevgelija, in order to get a certification which enables them to remain in Macedonia for 72 hours.
The immigrants have occupied nearly all the trees, while in the meantime, the police is trying to put the people in single files so they can...
Greek crisis emptied casinos in Gevgelija
Number of clients from Greece in casinos in Gevgelija is falling from 2011 onwards, but it is more emphasized in the recent period.
- Greeks are permanently in crisis, but from 2011 onwards, their number in the casinos is increasingly falling. It is more emphasized now because of the economic uncertainty and the closure of banks. The trend of declining...
