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The border with Greece has been “Hermetically” closed

At the border today, near Gevgelija has been “hermetically” closed to refugees and railway traffic. Today, the refugees who are stranded at Idomemni, on the Greek side of the border, protested peacefully and demanded that they open the borders. At this shelter, there are 7,000-9,000 refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The area already resembles a real small town, with...

Border with Greece has been reinforced with iron polls

Tensions are at a high at Idomeni after refugees broke through the barriers in protest to get through to the Macedonian side. Desperate after waiting for days, the refugees began to throw stones at the fence and the police. The police force from the Macedonian side responded with tear gas to try to disperse the crowd and to calm...

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...

20.000 Refugees stranded in Greece, at Idomeni 6,000 refugees are still waiting

At the moment, all across Greece, 20,000 – 25,000 refugees have been stranded in the country. The figure is expected to rise which was released by the Minister for Migration Yiannis Muzalas in an interview with the Greek television “Mega” where he stated that he expected the numbers to rise, as every day thousands of refugees arrive every day...

The Steering Committee rules the number of refugees leaving determines the number allowed to enter

The Steering Committee, who have the highest authority regarding the refugee crisis, at a closed session last night came to a decision regarding the numbers of refugees in Macedonia. They have decided, to let the same amount of refugees in at the border-crossing Bogorodica, and to let the same amount of refugees out at the border-crossing Tabanovce. The session, was chaired...

MOI explains: Migrants from Gevgelija to Austria will not travel using a direct route

The transportation of migrants between Gevgelija an Austria will not be carried out using a direct route, instead, every country in the Western Balkans, particularly those countries on the migrant route, will individually make arrangements for the movement of migrants to their final destination, at which the migrants intend to seek asylum, the Interior Ministry explained to 'Meta'. Furthermore, it...

Jolevski: Migrants arriving in Macedonia has increased tenfold

The Army of the Republic of Macedonia (ARM) is willing to accept the increased number of foreign nationals, and at present there is no need to increase the number of troops on the Southern border. This was stated by Minister of Defence Zoran Jolevski, yesterday at the opening of the Advanced School of NATO, "Dealing with the threat of terrorism in...

Taxi drivers from Gevgelija will again block the border and the city

Bus and taxi drivers today at noon will again block the border crossing - Bogorodica. The protest of the drivers will last for two hours. Drivers of buses and taxi companies want to be involved in the transport of migrants, and recently they came to an agreement over the issue. Besides blocking traffic in both directions at the border crossing,...

ARM are putting up another line of wired fence on the Southern border

Another line of wired fence is being raised on the southern border by the Army of Macedonia to strengthen security along the border in the wake of the crackdown on leaks of refugees in to Europe. The network of wires is being set up intensively left and right of quota 59. ARM at the end of November last year began building...

Spasovski: Joint police patrols uncover 858 migrants with false documents

Macedonian police officers and their counterparts from several European Union countries and from the region, situated on the southern border, have uncovered 858 migrants who have used false or forged documents to enter the country. This, among other things, announced the Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski at today's meeting with experts from the police of the Visegrad Group (Slovakia, Czech Republic,...

For migrants it is standard procedure to be registered and filtered

The standard registration for a migrants with bio-metric data and they have to meet a precise criteria be able to sanction transit through the countries of the so-called Western Balkan route to the countries of the European Union who intend to seek asylum. This was the subject at the meeting of the Directors of Police in Macedonia, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia...

Migrants chant “Macedonia, Macedonia” from the Greek side of the border

In a video story broadcasted by the US television network CNN, from the Greek side of the border, one can clearly hear migrants chanting "Macedonia, Macedonia" while waiting at a petrol station near the Greek-Macedonia border-crossing Bogorodica / Idomeni. In the longer video one can see countless buses parked while migrants await registration and sign statements to confirm their final...

17 Migrants have been discovered in two separate cars

Yesterday officers from the police station in Negotino stopped a 'Matiz' car with license plates from Veles, where, apart from the driver MG (32) police discovered five migrants, and then they were taken to the Reception Centre for Foreigners in Skopje. In another case, on the motorway near the village Smokvica, police stopped a 'Renault' car with license plates from Skopje,...

Macedonia has the capacity to care for 2000 refugees, and is under pressure to take in more

The number of refugees arriving in Greece is increasing daily and the border is closed. As announced by Macedonian authorities, the interruption in the flow of migrants is at the request of Slovenia, allegedly due to a malfunction on the railway lines. The pressure to resolve the migrant crisis increases everyday, even more so due to the fact that today Serbia have...

Due to the defect on the Slovenian railway, the neutral zone Idomeni has been closed

A defect on the railway infrastructure in Slovenia is the reason for the closure of the neutral zone at the border crossing, Idomeni where the migrants cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, said the from the Ministry of Interior to “Meta”. “We were informed from other countries on the Western Balkan route that there had been a reduce the...

A truck full of migrants was discovered on the old high way from Skopje – Kumanovo

A truck full of migrants, including women and children, was found yesterday on the old high way from Skopje - Kumanovo, reported the television "TV 21". In the abandoned truck, according to "Telma", which came by this information from the police, 34 migrants were discovered, of which 16 were Iraqi nationals. Because they are not considered economic migrants they can continue their...

More than 4000 refugees registered in a day and night in Macedonia

A total of 4026 certifications for expressed intention for applying for asylum from Asia and Africa have been issued in the past day and night, with the largest numbers of refugees from Syria, announced the Ministry of Interior. The police also announced that 1,616 of the certificates are for males, 881 for females, 1,512 are for children who are accompanying...

Spasovski: Without a new, crystal clear and reliable voters list, fair elections will not be possible

The deadlines for renewing the electoral roll have been missed. After all the abuse we found and we have only we scratched the surface around the way personal documents were issued by the MOI, who voted, it is more than clear that the existing voters' list is disputable, with strong indications of criminal data within the list, which compromises...

Ivanov: The political environment has become so polluted it has begun to suffocate us

At today's annual speech, President Gjorge Ivanov addressed Parliament and devoted his words to the political crisis in Macedonia, the challenges facing the world, terrorism, extremism, and the refugee and migrant crisis. Ivanov said that the year we are leaving behind us, Macedonia faced enormous challenges, both globally and domestically. The President said that Macedonia in this last year faced...

President Ivanov and members of the Steering Committee discussed the migrant crisis

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov held a meeting today with members of the Steering Committee, the Government body for Coordination for Crisis Management and members of staff from the Army of the Republic of Macedonia, about dealing with the refugee and migrant crisis. The meeting was held in order for President Ivanov to introduce members of the committee with the recent...