15 October 2019
RTL Croatia’s journalist, Damira Gregoret, whose specialty is politics, is a reporter, news anchor and hosts political shows. Not long ago the Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenkovic, apologized to her for saying “You are so sweet Damira” instead of replying to her question he didn’t like. What followed was a public apology to Gregoret. […]
30 October 2018
The government has proposed that the state of emergency on the southern and northern border be extended until June 30, 2019, in order to prevent the entry and transit of migrants on the territory of Macedonia. The draft decision on amending the original decision for the approval of the extension of the deadline for the […]
24 October 2018
The Commissariat for Refugees and Migration s in Serbia has issued a warning yesterday that fake news is spread on social networks about an alleged attack by a group of immigrants on a 17-year-old girl at the center of Belgrade. “This is not the first case of spreading fake news on social networks about migrants […]
20 September 2018
Today, Serbia initialed an agreement with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) to advance security at the external borders of the EU, as well as to manage migration. Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos signed the agreement. Avramopoulos explained that the agreement will allow […]
22 September 2017
The State Self-Government Inspectorate has made a decision to stop the decisions for organizing local referendums in the municipalities for prevention of a population of migrants on the day of the local elections – 15th of October. This was announced today at a press conference the State Inspector for Local-Self-Government, Rahim Musliu, who also said […]
4 September 2017
With 15 votes “for” and 9 “against,” the Council of the Municipality of Bitola decided today to call a referendum where the citizens of Bitola to state their opinion about the draft- strategy for migrants. A heated debate opened up about the date for holding the referendum. The opposition gave a proposal for the referendum […]
3 September 2017
Referendums from several municipalities for the construction of apartments for refugees announced on the same day as the local elections, is a political manipulation, whose aim is to distract citizens’ attention ahead of the elections, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, in response to a journalist’s question during his visit to Veles. “Macedonia is not such […]
15 August 2017
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 […]
8 August 2017
The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy has issued a press reaction to the media where it states that the news that the country will be building flats for refugees and that they will be staying in Macedonia is fake. The Ministry states that refugee camps won’t be built and no citizenships will be given […]
11 November 2016
The American research center “Pew” has published research about migration and according to its results until 2015 around 244 million of people worldwide have moved out of their native countries because of various reasons. The data indicates that in nine countries, 20% of the people that were born there, and even more than that, now live […]
18 September 2016
Now is not the time for our country to become part of the Schengen Area, and the joining of our country in this area will not help us, said Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. “Everyone says that Bulgaria should immediately become a member of the Schengen area. But, this is not in our best interest […]
3 August 2016
For each possible problem while traveling, passengers are obliged to submit their complaints to the travel agency, so the agency can take the complaint into consideration and respond”, reacted today “Storia Travel” after “Meta” wrote articles looking into the alleged fraud over cheap flights which Macedonians living in the US and Australia were allegedly submitted […]
11 April 2016
The European Commission today called on all migrants from the Greek side of the border to be moved to other camps in the country. “The European Commission will continue to send the message that the people of Idomeni should be relocated and placed in reception centers across Greece and they should not make these dangerous […]
11 April 2016
The incidents in Idomeni remain a hot topic in Greece. The reaction of the Macedonian police, the outbreak of violence and the lack of response by the Greek government and the police in the whole situation has affected the Greek public. Once the Greek media showed a recording showing Macedonian police entering through the fence and […]
11 April 2016
One of the officers yesterday who was seriously injured in the incident on the southern border, was held for further treatment at the Clinical Center “Mother Teresa” in Skopje, while four have been released from hospital. Yesterday, during the intervention between the Macedonian security forces with a crowd of several thousand migrants who tried to […]
11 April 2016
Greece has sent a note of protest to Macedonia, condemning the violent incidents with the refugees at the border. According to a statement by the Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Greek Ambassador to Macedonia, Theocharis Lalakos, delivered two demarches to the Macedonian authorities concerning the situation in Idomeni. Lalakos noted that the use of violence […]
11 April 2016
14 policemen and 9 members of the Army, were injured in today’s clash between the police and migrants at the Macedonian-Greek border, said the Ministry of Interior. The statement from the Interior Ministry reported that during the clash three vehicles were damaged from the MOI and five from the Army. According to initial estimates from […]
23 March 2016
Conditions at Idomeni continue to deteriorate. Rain and more bad weather are like salt to open wound, especially following yesterday’s announcement that voluntary organizations and the UNHCR were pulling out from the camp. Once again tents are sinking into the mud from recent rains, and refugees are being left in the cold while voluntary organizations […]
21 March 2016
Thirty refugees in Idomeni claim that they were physically attacked by Macedonian police for attempting to cross the border into Macedonia illegally. Greek media reported on this incident according to information from the volunteers of the organization “Doctors without Borders”. A representative of the organization said that 33 people from different countries, aged 17 to 29, […]
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 […]
