16 February 2021
There are almost no major construction projects abroad that the construction companies from North Macedonia are taking part in, and the situation has been gradually worsening with the years. The statistical data shows modest number of signed and completed contracts in the foreign markets. In 2020, the completed construction operations abroad by the companies from […]
6 November 2020
The sight of thousands of people waiting to kiss the mortal remains of the Serbian Orthodox Christian bishop Amfilohije Radović in Montenegro caused outrage in the Balkans. Several days later, reported infections of top Serbian religious figures, including Partiarch Irinej, indicate that the lavish funeral could serve as a coronavirus superspreader event. Metropolitan Amfilohije was […]
21 August 2020
The European Union has rejected the claims that the building of a wire fence between Serbia and North Macedonia is part of an agreement with Serbia. As was announced by the EU Commission’s spokeswoman, Ana Pisonero, Brussels is providing significant financial and technical aid to its Western Balkans partners in managing migration and for that […]
28 July 2020
A local strongman notorious for harassment of female employees in a remote Serbian municipality received a three-month prison sentence in a trial billed as the first high-profile #MeToo case in the country, Global Voices reported. The trial of the 58-year-old former mayor of the town of Brus, Milutin Jeličić, nicknamed Jutka, ended on July 10, […]
23 July 2020
A civic initiative, #hiljadekamera [thousands of cameras], composed of concerned citizens, experts and digital rights organisations, has been vocal about the deterioration of privacy in Serbia resulting form massive introduction of video surveillance system with advanced face recognition in the capital Belgrade. Government of Serbia in cooperation with the Chinese company Huawei has been actively […]
9 July 2020
During yesterday’s session, the Government of North Macedonia adopted the Commission for Infectious Diseases’ recommendation to introduce PCR tests for citizens of Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Hercegovina as a prerequisite for entering the country. The decision will become effective today and will last until a new decision has been adopted by the Government. […]
8 July 2020
The Health Minister Venko Filipche informed on his Facebook profile that the Commission for Infectious Diseases held a meeting this morning and it decided to submit a proposal to the Government that, starting from tomorrow, all citizens arriving in North Macedonia from Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to be obliged to submit PCR […]
7 July 2020
No country in the world knows the exact total number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. All that is known is what can be learned from the official records kept by health authorities based on the results of the tests performed. All infections that are laboratory confirmed are considered confirmed […]
3 July 2020
The Commission for Infectious Diseases had no discussion today about closing the borders of North Macedonia with Kosovo and Serbia and it hasn’t issued a recommendation to the Government, said the Interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski during the visit to Chucher – Sandevo. -This isn’t a political issue, and therefore the Government cannot make a […]
18 June 2020
After a COVID-19 imposed hiatus, Serbia announced that it will hold its postponed parliamentary elections on June 21. Some of the biggest opposition parties will boycott the elections, blaming the government it had not provided fair game conditions. Ruling parties, on the other hand, started the campaign in earnest, continuing their tradition of controversial campaign […]
3 June 2020
The president of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Ivica Dačić distanced himself from election video clip published on Twitter by Branko Ružić, the vice president of the SPS executive board. Both politicians serve as ministers in the coalition government of Republic of Serbia. Dačić occupies the position of First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister […]
28 April 2020
U okviru svog programa za borbu protiv dezinformacija i lažnih vesti, koje na Balkanu vrlo lako prelaze granice i brzo se pojavljuju u medijima druge zemlje, a ponekad i na drugom jeziku, Meta.mk redovno prenosi aktuelne novosti srodnih servisa za proveru činjenica i borbu protiv dezinformacija u regionu, odnosno od Hrvatske na severu do […]
28 April 2020
U okviru svog programa za borbu protiv dezinformacija i lažnih vesti, koje na Balkanu vrlo lako prelaze granice i brzo se pojavljuju u medijima druge zemlje, a ponekad i na drugom jeziku, Meta.mk redovno prenosi aktuelne novosti srodnih servisa za proveru činjenica i borbu protiv dezinformacija u regionu, odnosno od Hrvatske na severu do Grčke […]
24 April 2020
Two months since the first case of COVID-19 was registered in Croatia, as the first Balkan nation to have officially confirmed the presence of the virus, there almost 20,000 inhabitants of 10 Balkan nations that have been infected with the virus. What’s most striking about the official statistics published by the World Health Organization, the […]
22 April 2020
Global Voices published an English version of a story of Istinomer (Truth-O-Meter), a fact-checking initiative of the Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA), , which meta.mk republishes as part of a content-sharing agreement. The developments involving the arrest and release of journalist Ana Lalić for “spreading panic and inciting unrest” after she reported on the lack of protection […]
23 March 2020
U manje od mesec dana, Srbija je od zemlje u kojoj su se zbijale i šale na račun korona virusa, stigla do 249 obolelih i proglašenja vanrednog stanja. Zvaničnici su se u više navrata oglašavali, iz dana u dan iznoseći tvrdnje o korona virusu i donoseći nove, sve drastičnije mere u borbi protiv istog. Kako […]
26 February 2020
The аnti-migration wave is getting louder in Serbia. Although, according to the latest report of the European Commission, Serbia received a positive evaluation when it comes to the regulation of the system of acceptance and management of the migrations, migrants are increasingly spoken about in a negative context – that they steal, rape and commit […]
13 February 2020
An opinion poll conducted by the Institute for European Affairs in September 2019 shows that 23 percent of Serbian citizens believe Russia is Serbia’s largest aid donor. In reality, Russia hasn’t made the top 10 of Serbia’s largest donors since 2000, according to the data by the Ministry of European Integration. The EU tops the list with 2.96 billion […]
7 August 2019
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 […]
18 July 2019
Nenad Shebek is an international consultant for media and civil society. Previously he was director of the Belgrade office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and before that, spokesperson of Regional Cooperation Council. He served as Executive director of the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe 2002-2014. Prior to that, he had worked as […]
