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Photo credits: Meta.mk At the beginning of the month, the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of North Macedonia informed that it will take over the competencies of the Municipality of Sveti Nikole and the Mayor Dejan Vladev in the Public Enterprise that should manage the future regional landfill and the six transfer stations. This is not the first promise...

The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia promised in its Work Programme that in the period 2022-2024 a gradual ban on the use of plastic bags in retail in the country will be introduced. The government fulfilled this promise. On December 1, 2021, the Decision to ban plastic bags on the market in the country went into force. As...

Photo: HalGatewood, Unsplash In his election manifesto titled “We Vouch for Shtip; Create New Future”, the Mayor of the Municipality of Shtip, Ivan Jordanov promised to provide new computers/tablets for every primary school student by the end of 2022. In addition, Jordanov has promised to secure uniforms for primary school students, as well as projectors for every classroom in the...

The scattered waste at Vardarishte, photograph taken on 9th January 2023 by Meta.mk   The current Mayor of Gazi Baba municipality, Boban Stefkovski, in his electoral campaign for the local elections that took place in October 2021, promised a cleanup of former Skopje’s landfill Vardarishte and building a sports and recreation center in that specific location. These statements given by Mayor...

The Kumanovo landfill “Krasta” is one of the locations that should be rehabilitated, and turned into a waste transfer station, with a special new biological waste composting plant. Photo: Meta.mk From 2020 to date, the cleaning of the unstandardized municipal landfills and solid waste illegal dumps in the Eastern and Northeastern planning region of North Macedonia has been stalled. There...

Photo:Mehrpouya H on Unsplash At the end of December last year the Council of the City of Skopje, acting upon the amendment proposed by Councilor Teodora Krstevska, voted for an allotment of MKD 2 000 000 from the city budget for free menstruаl products for secondary schools. ”The amendments do not impose large financial liabilities and exclusively serve the citizens. However...

Electric vehicle charger in Skopje; Photo: Meta.mk's photo archive North Macedonia’s budget for 2023 does not provide financial resources for subsidies to the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicles, although such a promise was made by the Macedonian government at the end of 2018. On 15th November 2018, the Government promised to introduce subsidies for purchasing electric and hybrid vehicles,...

Photo: Hal Gatewood, Unsplash The Mayor of the City of Skopje, Danela Arsovska, in her electoral “Manifesto for Modern Skopje” promised that all high school students and teachers will receive tablet computers, as well as training for the teachers on the use of the equipment. Allegedly, the City of Skopje is currently working on this promise, so we evaluate it...

(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 6th of December 2022) The statement of Kreshnik Bekteshi, the Minister of Economy of North Macedonia, given at the end of January 2021 that by the end of the last year the import of vehicles below the EURO 5 gas emissions standard would be banned, is...

The inaugural session of the Youth Assembly of the City of Skopje, 30 October 2022; Photo: City Hall of Skopje   The Mayor of Skopje, Danela Arsovska in her Manifesto “For Modern Skopje" for the local elections, as one of her promises for the youth of Skopje, also promised to establish the Youth Assembly of the City of Skopje as a...

Photo: Screenshot from the CI video of the building of the new high school published on Facebook Timcho Mucunski, the Mayor of Aerodrom Municipality in Skopje, in his campaign for the local elections last year said that a modern high school will be built in the municipality. To date, this promise is unfulfilled. In the campaign, in a video titled "My...

The Goce Delchev Student Dormitory in Skopje / Photo: Meta.mk   In May this year, “State Student Dormitory – Skopje” announced that admission in the state dormitories at the beginning of the academic year will be digitized, which will put an end to the waiting in long lines and to the extensive documentation necessary for admission. However, the announced digitization was...

The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia's Programme for Work for the period 2020-2024, promises that by the end of 2024, the government will provide direct support for the procurement of 10,000 bins and containers annually for the municipalities, as help towards protection of the environment. Somewhere in the second half of the government’s mandate, we assess this...

In late 2018, the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia promised it will introduce environmental stickers for categorization of the pollution the vehicles cause, with a set deadline for implementation in 2019 and 2020. The promise written in the Program for Reducing Air Pollution of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia to this day is unfulfilled. The...