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Kotzias – Poposki: If there is no trust between partners, they can not get married

25 August 2016

Today in Skopje, the Foreign Ministers of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Poposki and Nikos Kotzias discussed confidence-building measures and the possible development and expansion of the railway line from Bitola to Lerin and the construction of the gas pipeline from Thessaloniki to Macedonia . The name dispute, as previously announced, was not part of the […]

Ban Ki-moon in Athens Listening to the Greek’s Position on the Name Dispute

18 June 2016

Today in Athens, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon spoke with the Greek government about the refugee crisis, the name dispute and the Cyprus issue. This morning Ban Ki-moon held talks with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, where they focused their discussion on the refugee crisis. Later during midday he had a meeting with […]

Hahn: Przhino Agreement is not dead, and is important for elections

4 May 2016

The Przhino Agreement has a future and it is important that the elections will be accepted and supported by the International Community, said EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, in an interview with “Radio Free Europe“. “It has a future. We have experienced that usually all the various deadlines were met […]

Kotzias: At this point in time we will not discuss the name dispute

22 April 2016

The name dispute is not up for discussion at the moment due to the of the internal political crisis in Macedonia. This was stated by Greece’s Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias before its present face to face meeting with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Poposki. The two ministers met on the sidelines of a regional meeting on […]

New tensions in Idomeni, refugees push old wagon on the railway towards armored vehicles

11 April 2016

The situation remains tense in Idomeni after yesterday’s clashes. Today a group of refugees gathered again at the fence and demanded the Macedonian police open the border. Today’s communication, however, is still calm. Refugees demanded the Macedonian police to let them through, commenting that they were not terrorists. The response from the Macedonian side was that […]

Greece has sent two notes of protest to Macedonia due to incidents on the border

11 April 2016

Greece has sent a note of protest to Macedonia, condemning the violent incidents with the refugees at the border. According to a statement by the Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Greek Ambassador to Macedonia, Theocharis Lalakos, delivered two demarches to the Macedonian authorities concerning the situation in Idomeni. Lalakos noted that the use of violence […]

Three police officers injured during clash with migrants

10 April 2016

Three police officers were injured in the clash this afternoon on the Macedonian-Greek border, where a police officers and a group of migrants clashed violently when the migrants tried to cross the border, the Interior Ministry confirmed for “Meta”. The police officers were immediately transferred to the medical center in Gevgelija. Earlier, police threw tear […]

Refugees in Idomeni and Piraeus refuse to leave their makeshift camps

10 April 2016

Macedonian police threw tear gas to clear a group of refugees protesting at the fence in Idomeni. Greek media reported that some of the refugees were unconscious and were have trouble breathing because of the incident. Refugees protested again this morning on the fence demanding the border be opened. Yesterday a leaflet in Arabic circulated […]

The Southern border ‘legally’ open, but actually it is closed

10 March 2016

The Steering Committee’s meeting over the migrant crisis lasted late into the night, due to the new circumstances and measures introduced by the countries of the Balkan route, which was confirmed for “Meta” by the Center for Crisis Management (CCM) and the Ministry of Interior ( MOI) that they had not adopted new measures, but […]

Tusk – Ivanov: Synchronized action is needed to address the refugee problem

2 March 2016

Today, President Gjorge Ivanov met with the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. Ivanov’s Cabinet announced that at the meeting, they will focus on efforts to achieve a common European solution for the refugee and migrant crisis. “We require and expect a decision from the European Council, and we have no interest in letting […]

“BBC” provoke Poposki: Did you enter politics to throw tear gas at children?

1 March 2016

“Your country fired tear gas on many people, many of them were children. Now I’m just wandering, is that why you went into politics for?” Provocatively asked the BBC journalist from Newsnight to Nikola Poposki, the Foreign Minister to Macedonia. “I don’t think this is a fair judgment”, replied Poposki. According to the Foreign Minister, […]

In the next 10 days Kurz, Zaorálek and Hahn will be visiting Macedonia

9 February 2016

This week, Austrian and Czech Foreign Ministers Sebastian Kurz and Lubomír Zaorálek, will be visiting Macedonia, where their main focus will be on the refugee crisis. The visit of Kurz in Macedonia is part of his tour of the Western Balkans. Kurz two days ago he visited Sarajevo and yesterday went to Belgrade. As well […]

VMRO-DPMNE have hired an American consulting firm to promote Gruevski

24 December 2015

The ruling party VMRO – DPMNE has hired an American consulting agency “New Partners“, which according to the agreement, will promote Macedonia and the parties President and Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, writes the American weekly “PR Week“. The weekly refers to documents published on the website of the State Agency for the registration of foreign associates […]

More than 4,000 refugees have entered Slovenia after Hungary closed its border

18 October 2015

Thousands of migrants in the past day and night, entered Slovenia at night between Friday and Saturday because Hungarian authorities closed their border with Croatia to stop the flow of refugees into their territory. The Refugee agency of the United Nations (UNHCR), stated that from Croatia approximately 4,000 migrants entered Slovenia. Most of them intend […]

Ivanov Calls for Mor Communications and Cooperation between all Security Agencies

7 September 2015

President Gjorge Ivanov, today held a meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Macedonian Army (ARM), Commander of Joint Operations Command (JOC), directors and heads of the state bodies in charge of defense, security and intelligence, and the national Coordinator for Combating Terrorism, where they discussed what measures are needed to be taken about the […]

Poposki in Luxemburg: Macedonia expects to be treated like any other EU member state

5 September 2015

Macedonian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nikola Poposki attended a working breakfast in Luxemburg with diplomats from established EU nations, as well as nations with candidate status, to discuss the current refugee crisis engulfing Europe. Poposki said, ” Europe has to come together to resolve this issue, because a country, acting on its own, simply does […]

ARM: We will stay at the border as long as necessary

27 August 2015

Macedonian Army Soldiers (ARM) who were dispatched to the south border, two days after the Government declared an emergency situation because of the large inflow of migrants, said they will stay at the border to assist the police if needed, commented for Meta the ARM headquarters. Colonel Gjorgovski from the headquarters says the army will […]

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