9 April 2022
The police, customs, and phytosanitary border controls of passenger and freight trains between North Macedonia and Serbia will be performed at a joint railway border crossing which is planned to be built at the Tabanovce railway station. The facility which is yet to be built will house police officers, customs officers, inspectors and railway workers […]
9 April 2022
From March last year, through April and September, to the new promise for the current spring. This is the series of promises that had been given in the past year about the start of the cleanup of the non-standard municipal landfills and dumps that are polluting the waters, the soil and the air in 18 municipalities […]
29 March 2022
The 4-decade long idea of introducing suburban rail transit as an addition to the bus public transportation system in Skopje isn’t welcomed with open arms by the current city authorities. The Skopje Region has 95 km of railroad track at its disposal which isn’t sufficiently utilized at the moment, in a situation when the road […]
12 March 2022
The popularity of public transport in North Macedonia is in a constant decline, especially among young people. Most young people use public transport because they get free monthly passes and have no other options. Most of them would have chosen cars as their preferred option if they had the luxury to do so. The delays […]
27 February 2022
The number of cars on the streets of the capital of North Macedonia is spiraling up and, consequently, so is the lack of parking spots. People from different parts of Skopje are complaining every day that they are cruising for 10 minutes before they can find a free parking spot, and this problem is most […]
20 February 2022
Since the start of operation of Jugohrom industrial complex, in 1955, at Jegunovce in the northwest of now North Macedonia, little attention was paid to the protection of the environment, especially to the resulting pollution of the underground and the surface waters in this part of the Polog Region. The residue from the chromite ore […]
18 February 2022
The cleanup of all illegal dumps and landfills in 82 days and the revitalization of the areas and their transformation into clean green spaces was an election promise of Mayor Danela Arsovska for the very start of her mandate at the helm of Skopje. On the 31st of January 2021, in her report, Arsovska backtracked […]
15 February 2022
Turkish company Kaltun Madencilik A.Ş submitted a request to the Ministry of Economy of North Macedonia for unilateral termination of the concession agreement due to lack of economic interest for further execution of the concession to exploit the deposited arsenic, informed the Ministry of Economy. The Turkish concessionaire in 2014 signed an agreement with the […]
14 February 2022
The significant gap between the genders in the fields of science and technology has been present for many years, but situation in recent years has started to improve, at least in North Macedonia. The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated on the 11th of February since it was first established in […]
11 February 2022
The postponement of the building of regional landfills in the country is only to the detriment of the people and the living environment. Apart from polluting the soil, water, and air, the existing municipality landfills are of limited capacity and one day they will reach their full capacity. On the other hand, the regional landfills […]
7 February 2022
The birth rate in North Macedonia has decreased and with lesser live births, the population is aging. The older population is predominant and, accordingly, the mortality rates in the country are on the rise. Still, in the last three years, we are seeing such high mortality rates that we have never been seen before. Those […]
7 February 2022
In 2021, the community hygiene public enterprise (PE) of Skopje, the “Komunalna higiena – Skopje” (PE Communal Hygiene – Skopje) has managed to select and bale 538.8 tons of waste. The total quantity of collected waste last year was 166,678 tons. This means that the PE was able to select a modest 0.32% of the […]
1 February 2022
The first 82 days since Mayor Danela Arsovska took over the helm of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, expired on Friday, the 28th of January, which prompted Meta.mk to check on site whether one of the most important promises that Arsovska gave in her election campaign was fulfilled: cleanup of the illegal dumps throughout […]
22 January 2022
After Meta.mk’s article about the situation with the stockpiled arsenic and other toxic mineral raw materials in the tailing ponds of the former Lojane Mine and the deposits near the village of Tabanovce in relative vicinity, the Ministry of Economy of North Macedonia sent a request to competent inspectorates to conduct an inspection and to […]
17 January 2022
In a situation when we see a new record of registered vehicles on the streets of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, and there is a continuous decrease of the number of passengers using the public transportation, the bicycle rental system which was implemented by the Public enterprise (PE) City Parking, now isn’t functioning – […]
14 January 2022
Over 10.000 hectares of forests were destroyed in the catastrophic wildfires that hit North Macedonia during this year. The situation was extremely serious during August, when the extremely bad combination of drought, a prolonged heatwave with temperatures of over 40 C and strong winds, caused the devastation of whole forests in the Maleshevo region, the […]
14 January 2022
“Komunalna higiena”, the community hygiene public enterprise of the city of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, last year collected 11,000 cubic meters of waste from the illegal dumps and other sites. Also, in 2021 their Eco Patrol handed a total of 1,359 Informative-educational Reports to the people and the legal entities that were caught […]
13 January 2022
A year has passed since the North Macedonia Minister of Economy Kreshnik Bekteshi stated that the import of used cars in North Macedonia below the EURO 5 standard for gas emissions will be banned. He announced that the ban of cars older than 10 years will start in 2021, but toward the end of last […]
12 January 2022
At the UN’s Climate Change Conference (COP 26), 104 states have agreed to cut down the emissions of methane gas into the atmosphere by at least 30% by 2030. This gas is held up in the atmosphere much less than the carbon dioxide, but methane has the potential to heat up 80 times higher than […]
12 January 2022
With the lower daily temperatures and the rise of the number of days with polluted air in Macedonian cities, the issue with the sources of emission of hazardous gases that are creating this problem is being opened again. The latest data provided by the State Statistical Office shows that the traffic is the biggest consumer […]
