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The second phase of the building of the railway line to Bulgaria will start in 2020
By the end of the year, a constructor of the second phase of the building of the railway line to Bulgaria, and the construction works are expected to begin at the start of 2020. The Ministry of Transportation and Communications stated for Meta Agency that at the moment, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development is making an evaluation...
The highway from Miladinovci to Shtip will be completed for an amount of 5.7 million euros
The Public Enterprise for State roads will finish the 10 service roads and the key juntion ner Sveti Nikole on the highway from Miladinovci - Shtip. The construction company "Granit" was chosen to finish the completion of the construction works at the highway that were not part of the project previously according to which the Chinese construction company "Sinohidro"...
Through the tolls we pay for the loans, interests and commissions for the motorways (video + infographic)
Despite the fact that the Macedonians have the lowest salaries in Europe, they still pay very expensive tolls. The compensation for one kilometer by car is 2,6 denars, and the adoption of the new toll price in 2014 was justified by VMRO-DPMNE, which claimed that the global economic crisis has ended and the compensation must be increased to the...
Government states that all legal conditions were met to cancel Euromax’s mining concession at Ilovica
During today's government session, the Ministry of Economy informed that the legal conditions to revoke the request for issuing a permit for the excavation of copper and gold at Ilovica location, the municipality of Bosilovo by Euromax Resources, inform the government.
The information that was presented today at the Government by the Ministry of Economy revealed that that the...
Zaev: Without a budget revision we shall have no gasification
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who will temporarily take over the position as a Minister of Finance until a new minister is appointed, confirmed there will be a budget rebalance, but firstly the necessary analyses will have to be made in order to see where the changes will be necessary.
-I know that certain budget items will have to be changed....
Too little international trains available and citizens are forced to purchase expensive bus tickets
Macedonia is one of the rare European countries where international railway traffic is about to go extinct. Apart from the lack of express trains towards the bigger cities during the entire year, there are no trains for citizens towards Serbia, Greece, and Kosovo. The citizens of border cities are forced to pay for bus tickets which are more expensive...
The new toll gates near Gevgelija angered the people from the surrounding area
The locals from the Gevgelija area villages of Miravci, Smokvica, and Prdejci demand to be freed from paying pay toll that will be put into use in the forthcoming days. The citizens that are traveling every day by using the highway to Gevgelija and back think that the pay toll in the amount of 100 denars in one direction...
World Bank dissatisfied with the progress of construction of Rankovce- Kriva Palanka Expressway
“Moderately unsatisfactory” is the grade that the World Bank gave for the progress of the implementation of the project for the construction of the Rankovce - Kriva Palanka Expressway, on Corridor 8.
The World Bank, which sources the money for the project, emphasizes that the construction of the 23 kilometres long road is underway, but the progress of the works...
Atanasov’s resignation is causing dilemmas: What happened to the education reforms?
The resignation of the Deputy- Minister of Education and Science Petar Atanasov has raised new issues that have to be analyzed - why are the education reforms stagnating and why hasn't anything been put into practice that was expected and promised in the past period?
Atanasov says that the main priorities in education for achieving higher quality haven't been met...
Atanasov: Prime Minister, you know best why we did not realize any changes in education!
Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Petar Atanasov, wrote a Facebook status saying that he was resigning from office, addressing the general public and Prime Minister Zoran Zaev.
The reason for his decision, he wrote, is the Government's inability to implement the promises that were made. He also says that "the revolution has started to eat its own children".
"In the...
Two public enterprises will be counting the number of vehicles passing through our roads
Despite Makedonia Pat has been determining the frequency of vehicles on Macedonian roads, starting from this year, the Public Enterprise for State Roads will be counting the number of vehicles traversing.
The manual traffic volume count in the next 12 months will be done by mobile counters, for which an agreement was concluded with the Institute for Testing of...
269,000 vehicles in the country are older than 18 years
Out of the 466,000 registered vehicles in the country, until 2017, 269,000 were made before 2002. The math shows that more than half of the vehicles on our roads in the country are 18 years or older.
According to the Ministry of Economy's Rule-book on old-timers, the status of a vehicle with special museum value (old-timer) is given to a...
The highway to Greece has been completely reconstructed
The reconstruction of the highway between Negotino and Demir Kapija has been completed and the roan in the length of 15.4km has been put to use. This project which was worth over 5 million euros was late several months.
-There were additional drawbacks and 300 m of the road had to be repaired - informs the Director of the...
The airport train will not be operational in the next 3 years
The National Program for Railway Infrastructure in the period between 2019 - 2021 doesn't have the project for setting a railway line from the Skopje railway station to the International Airport Skopje evidenced. The Ministry of Transportation and Communications has included this project in its National Transportation Strategy 2018-2020, but for its realization, a feasibility study will have to...
The three new pay tolls will be built with a loan in the amount of 15,3 million euros
The tender for building new pay tolls and the introduction of electronic payments along the Corridor 8 and the highway between Miladinovci - Shtip has officially been put out.
With a loan in the amount of 15.3 million euros through the European Band for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) the pay tolls named as Kadrifakovo and Preod will be built including...
In the first three months, €8.1 million Macedonian investments abroad
An issue that deserves attention is the question of whether there will be a time when Macedonian companies start to move investments to other countries, considering that in the first three months of this year, foreign direct investments from our country abroad amounted to €8.1 million.
Data from the National Bank shows that there has been a significant increase in...
Greek Railways are not interested in introducing a train from Bitola to FLorina
Although the railway line from Bitola to Kremenica on the Macedonian-Greek border has already been built, passenger trains will not be running anytime soon. The Greek railway operator - TrainOse is not interested in introducing a borderline train between Bitola and Florina. RSM Railways - Transport told "Meta", that a meeting with the Director General of the Greek Railways...
It will take a whole year for the mistakes in the project behind the highway between Kichevo and Ohrid to be undone
It will take a year for the determined flaws in the project behind the highway between Kichevo and Ohrid to be undone. The Public enterprise for State Roads has published the tender for the completion of the project's documentation for the road long 57 km and for which the state will pay 598 million euros.
As the tender documentation...
From June 15, return tickets for trains to Thessaloniki will be just 756 denars
RSM-Transport Railways, from June 15 are re-introducing the express train from Skopje to Belgrade and to Thessaloniki. The train from the Macedonian capital to Thessaloniki will leave every day at 4.45 am, and arrive at the Thessaloniki train station at 9.33 am, from where it will be possible to catch a connection train to the resorts in Litochoro, Leptokaria...
A Law for the state inspectorate for the use of languages is underway
The Ministry of Justice is making a draft law for the State Inspectorate on the Use of Languages. The Unique national electronic register of regulations (ENER) states that the forming of the inspectorate is in accordance with Article 20 of the Law on use of languages, which predicts that this organ will function as part of the Ministry of...
