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The rhetoric of the European Union in terms of resolving the name dispute with Greece has been intensified in each subsequent report. Each report mentions that Macedonia should maintain good neighborly relations and take decisive steps to find a mutually acceptable solution to the name dispute, and the term “without delay” is increasingly used in that context. The conclusions of...

Khalid El-Masri is a completely ruined man, report global media. A decade after the CIA, with the assistance of Macedonian authorities, took him from Macedonia and to a secret detention center in Afghanistan, El-Masri hasn’t yet recovered. Newspaper Sun Herald reported that the German of Lebanese origin is no longer part of the lives of his wife and children, while...

President of Democratic Union for Integration, Ali Ahmeti, held a meeting with Belgian Ambassador Anick Van Calster. The Embassy of Belgium based in Sofia, Bulgaria, is also a diplomatic mission for Macedonia. At the meeting, the interlocutors discussed the current situation in the country and the region, economic development, inter-ethnic relations, as well as Euro-Atlantic integration. As announced by DUI, President...

Bulgarian daily “Telegraph” accused that Macedonia is stealing the Bulgarian Coat of Arms. “The Government in Skopje adopted a new Coat of Arms that is a copy of our,” writes Bulgarian daily “Telegraph”. In its print edition, the daily, in an article with title “Macedonia steals our Coat of Arms,” states that Macedonian draft crest is a symbol of the Second...

At today’s session of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia, MPs passed the bill on minimum wage. With this bill, the minimum wage increased from 8,050 to 8,800 denars. Also, with these changes, a continuous increase of the minimum wage by 2016 was brought, so, in 2015, the minimum wage should be 9,590 denars, while the minimum wage in...

The high growth in industrial production is due to good tax policy and business environment, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Zoran Stavreski today in Prilep, commenting on the date of the State Statistical Office. - Macedonian industry started off good. There is a continuous growth for 14 months now. The latest data on the growth of 7.5...

The argument between Greek MEP Maria Spiraki and former head of Macedonian diplomacy Antonio Miloshoski continues escalating. MEP from the ranks of the New Democracy party, which is part of the Joint Committee EU-Macedonia, wasn’t silent to the invitation of Miloshoski to climb Olympus and together wave the flags of the two countries as a sign of good neighborliness,...

MEP from Bulgaria, Angel Dzambaski, sent a letter to the European Commission regarding the interrogations of Bulgarian citizens from the security services of the Republic of Macedonia. Namely, according to Dzambaski, on 25th of November 2014, President of the Bulgarian Cultural Club in Skopje reacted due to violation of the rights of the citizens in Strumica and Kochani done by...

At today’s debate on Macedonia’s plans for membership in the North Atlantic Alliance after the summit in the UK, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Poposki, said that Macedonia will apply for membership for the 16th time at the end of the month. - It is a precedent. No country has ever applied for NATO membership for 16 years in a...

The head of the Greek diplomacy, Evangelos Venizelos, doesn’t see an opportunity for a solution to the name issue anytime soon. In an interview for the weekly Real News, Venizelos emphasized that there won’t be any new developments for faster resolution because of the unconstructiveness of the Macedonian side. “There is no new proposal from Nimetz. There won’t be a...

The last official proposal for the name of the United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz, which was offered to Macedonia and Greece last year, was announced today by BIRN. On the document which was discovered by BIRN, there is the date April 9, 2013, which coincides with the date of the meeting between the mediator and representatives of Macedonia and Greece...

Macedonia will finish the year with growth of around 3.5 percent, which is above the regional average, said representative of IMF mission, Ivanna Vladkova Hollar, today. - The increase this year is above regional average and is projected to be around 3.5 percent and to slightly increase next year. Growth is balanced and reflects increased export, as well as growing...