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Macedonian citizens have purchased 85.000 electronic vignettes for traversing Bulgarian roads during the period between 1st of January and 13th of August this year. The Bulgarian Minister of Regional Development and Urbanism, Petja Avramova had fond words for Macedonian drivers who are among the most regular payers of road fees out of which the Bulgarian state has profited...

Bulgaria wants Sofia and Skopje to be connected with a highway and a quick railway. The speeded building of the Pan-European Corridor 8 is of great importance for Bulgaria stated today the Bulgarian Minister of Regional Development and Urbanism, Petja Avramova. She was on an official visit to Skopje where along with the Minister of Local Self-Government Goran...

The official number of employees in the public sector is close to the European average rates , as a percentage of the total number of employees, but it is still close to the Macedonian unemployment rates. Simoultaneously, the average unemployment rate in the EU is 6.8% or less than a half compared to the Macedonian. According to Annual Report...

Makedonska vlada demantuje da premijer Zoran Zaev i bivši premijer Kosova, Ramuš Haradinaj imaju “tajne veze i crne fondove za potplaćivanje političara u Briselu”, kao što su ovih dana (06.08.2019.) objavile srpske novine ”Blic” ne navodeći nikakav izvor za ovakva tvrđenja. Vlada u Skoplju odgovorila je na zahtev Meta.mk za komentar o navodima plasiranim u srpskim novinama ”Blic“, koje je prenela...

Several Serbian media outlets have recently promoted a conspiracy theory – the counterintelligence services of the Balkan countries, in a car dealership in Skopje, are preparing to assassinate Serbian oppositionists. Afterwards, the “West” would blame these crimes on Vučić’s government. The Serbian weekly newspaper ”Pečat“ in the issue released on 19 July 2019, published a text entitled: “Noose for Serbia” (original:...

Η Γερμανία και η Άγγελα Μέρκελ, όπως και η γερμανική αυτοκινητιστική λέσχη ADAC, μια από τις μεγαλύτερες ενώσης αυτού του είδους παγκοσμίως, σε όλες τις περιπτώσεις χρησιμοποιούν το όνομα Βόρεια Μακεδονία και όχι σκέτο Μακεδονία και ο ισχυρισμός ότι αυτό δεν είναι έτσι, αποτελεί μια περίφημη αναλήθεια, δημοσίευσε η ελληνική υπηρεσία ελέγχου των γεγονότων και καταπολέμησης της παραπληροφόρησης „Еllinika...

Dana 7 jula 2019. godine, srpski informativni internet sajt “Telegraf.rs” objavio je intervju sa bivšim pomoćnikom direktora Centralne obaveštajne agencije SAD (CIA) za Balkan Stivenom Mejerom. Mejer u intervjuu komentariše sadašnju situaciju u regionu zapadnog Balkana i nudi svoje ideje za stabilizovanje stanja. Informativni mediji u regionu požurili su da citiraju njegove komentare u skladu sa potrebama i pozicijama,...

With multiple indications that North Macedonia as a country has done tremendous progress, the EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn and the Vice President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini at the press conference that took place in Brussels presented the reports for 2019 regarding the advancements of several countries including ours. The European Commission has requested that the European Council...

Srpski onlajn-medij “Argumenti”, pozivajući se na onlajn-izdanje grčkih novina “Katimerini”, pišući o prvom test-letu grčkog vojnog aviona-lovca na makedonskom nebu, pomešao je stvari. “Argumenti” je ovaj let proglasio početkom predviđenih vazdušnih patrola grčkog vojnog vazduhoplovstva nad Makedonijom, kao deo zaštite makedonskog neba u okviru NATO procedura. Počinjući od naslova vesti, koja u prevodu glasi “Grčki lovci počeli da kontrolišu makedonsko...

In most of the news published in Bulgarian media yesterday and today about yesterday's test flights conducted by Greek military planes over Macedonia, for the purpose to analyze the communications and radar coverage, almost all of them have reported correctly the facts both in the titles and content. All stressed that these are preparations for the protection of the...

The working week in Macedonia lasts longer than in any member country of the European Union, and by the number of working hours weekly, this country is ranking second in the Balkans. The working week in Macedonia is 42.3 hours and the average working week in the countries of the EU is 40.3 hours, show the data provided by...

Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras, at a press conference projected a joint message that with the Prespa Agreement, both Greece and North Macedonia will benefit both the citizens and future generations, and that opponents of the agreement will in time, see all the benefits. They said the current political leadership is committed to building bridges and demolishing walls, that...

EU's High Representative/Vice President for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini and Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn today confirmed the arrival of the notification by the Republic of North Macedonia about its new name and congratulated Skopje and Athens on the acchievement. "Today, the European Union has formally been notified by the Republic of North Macedonia of its new name,...

Yesterday, the Prespa Agreement officially came into force and the implementation of its provisions began, with which Macedonia has changed its name to North Macedonia. The government also changed its name to the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia. The Government explained that the Prespa Agreement was published in the "Official Gazette" yesterday, and the constitutional amendments from 33. to 36. as...

By becoming a NATO member, Macedonia will lose its ability to follow its own foreign policy as a sovereign state, said the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marija Zaharova, during yesterday's briefing with the press. According to her, it is unclear from who would NATO protect the country and concluded that the only danger to the...

In a joint statement, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn welcomed the ratification of the Prespa Agreement in Greek Parliament. "We warmly welcome the next crucial step in the ratification of the Prespa agreement, taken with today's vote by the Hellenic Parliament. From the very beginning, the...

Today, a few opponents to the Prespa Agreement in Thessaloniki, in front of the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace, handed out "obituaries" to passers-by with the name "Macedonia" written on it, protesting and calling it a "betrayal on Greek Macedonia". "Today we bury Macedonia" says the text, and is signed by "Mother Greece, Macedonian children and Macedonians". At 2:30 pm today, Greek parliament is scheduled to vote...

Russian Federation's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, stated that Moscow isn't against Macedonia's new name but the legitimacy of the whole process behind it is suspicious, reports Sputnik news agency. -We aren't against the name that arose in the end. We are asking to what degree this process was legitimate and to what extent it was conditioned by the...

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department for Informing and Press Relations has called the passing of the new amendments of the Macedonian Constitution in order to change the country's name as "an artificial change of the country's name in order for an enforced entering of Skopje into NATO" and stated that the problem with the country's renaming should...

While reporting on Saturday and yesterday about the vote in Macedonian Parliament, where four constitutional amendments were adopted, which, among other things, Macedonian MPs accepted the change of the name of the Republic of Macedonia, most of the media and some news agencies in neighboring Bulgaria and Serbia, wrote headlines and in part of the texts that Macedonia was...