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26 January 2022
Numerous citizens of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia, today paid homage to the late music star Aki Rahimovski. Condolence book was placed in the central Macedonia Square, and among others, the president of the Republic of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski and the minister of culture Bisera Kostadinovska – Stojchevska, signed it. […]
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 […]
31 December 2021
Approximately 56 000 users connected to the central heating network in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, could get much higher bills from the 1st of January. Balkan Energy Group (BEG), the operator of the network, submitted request to Energy and Water Services Regulatory Commission of North Macedonia (EWSRC) for 300% increase of the fees […]
28 December 2021
The attractive inhabitant of the Zoological Garden in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, Coco the chimp, turned 26 yesterday. The caretakers at the Skopje Zoo prepared a delicious surprise for Coco on his birthday. “It celebrated its birthday with its caretaker Biljana, with whom it shares the same birthday date. Apart from the birthday boy, […]
24 December 2021
The Russian-themed children’s playground behind the Universal Hall in Skopje, built with money from the Municipality of Centar and the Russian Embassy in North Macedonia, caused a kind of a diplomatic scandal. Meta.mk discovered that among the boards with names of Russian cities, there was a board with the name of the Ukrainian city of […]
22 December 2021
The level of the air pollution in Skopje during October and November of 2021 was lower compared to the same period in 2020. Concerning the PM 10 and PM 2.5 particles during this past autumn, there is a trend of their decline, while the carbon monoxide and the nitric oxide were within the normal limits. […]
25 November 2021
“Forever in our hearts”, “The dreams ended up in ashes”, “We will remember you”, “We miss you!”. With these banners, flowers in their hands and tears on their faces, the pupils from the Ismail Qemali Elementary School in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Wednesday gave their last respect to their friends who lost their lives in […]
19 November 2021
Toward the end of the ’80s, a referendum for introduction of trams in Skopje went unsuccessful by 1%. It took another 30 years for the procedure for introducing alternative public transportation in the capital to come to a closure. So, don’t act hastily, say the experts after the statement of the new Skopje mayor Danela […]
3 November 2021
Due to the rehabilitation works on the runway of the Skopje International Airport, from the 28th of March to the 16th of May 2022 the arrivals and the departures to and from the biggest airport in North Macedonia will take place only between 5:30 PM to 9 AM each day. The updated flight schedules for […]
14 October 2021
A children’s playground with Russian thematic was built behind the Universal Hall at Skopje’s city center during the local election campaign in North Macedonia. The playground, where the children from the surrounding buildings are supposed to play, has a floor with the map of the Russian Federation and the name of the state Russia is […]
30 September 2021
This year, the Skopje landfill Drisla will receive an autoclave, or a machine for treatment of the medical waste, but also an air quality measurement station. The landfill received €800,000 in an IPA project for the recycling of construction waste. But the projects for secondary waste selection, treatment of industrial waste and the waste sorting […]
22 September 2021
Activities for marking the European Mobility Week have been taking place in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia these days, but along comes defeating data about how people are practising the sustainable urban mobility in their everyday trips. According to the latest data provided by JSP – Skopje, the capital’s public transportation during the first […]
2 September 2021
Conservation and restoration works began on one of the main symbols of the capital of North Macedonia – the Skopje Aqueduct. Irena Stefoska, the Minister of Culture of North Macedonia, accompanied by Aco Kostov, director of the Directorate for Protection of Cultural Heritage, and Kole Chapkanovski, director of the Conservation Center – Skopje, presented the […]
31 August 2021
The first group of 149 Afghani nationals arrived at the International airport in Skopje late last night. Immediately upon arrival, a pregnant woman with her husband and child were transported to the University Clinic of Gynecology in Skopje for checkup while another emergency vehicle was used for transporting a person that collapsed. The Foreign Affairs […]
28 June 2021
The lack of parking spaces in Skopje is becoming a chronic problem. The number of cars on the streets of the capital of North Macedonia is on the rise from year to year and this trend is not leading to opening new parking locations for these vehicles. The statistical data shows that the city’s authorities […]
8 May 2021
One of the primary and instant solutions to ease the pressure from the “concretization” of the central areas of metropolitan cities in the developed countries is the development of fast, cheap, high-capacity and safe means of mass transportation of people from the city centers toward the suburban areas and vice versa. Due to the high […]
24 April 2021
In order to see tangible improvement of the air quality in Skopje in 2 to 3 years, bold and all-encompassing activities for solving the problem with air pollution are necessary, not just some minor assets from the budgets allocated each year for this purpose. The priority should be the decrease of the pollution with PM […]
19 April 2021
The measures taken by state and local authorities to lower the air pollution in Skopje are obviously not enough. The data provided by the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning – MEPP’s air pollution monitoring stations in the capital of North Macedonia indicate that during this winter in February and March the air was more […]
18 March 2021
The Public Enterprise for State Roads is preparing detailed analyses for the extension of the deadline for the building of the Kichevo-Ohrid motorway. It is highly probable that the deadline will be breached for the second time since the contractor, the Chinese company Sinohidro, took the job to supposedly finish the construction of the motorway […]
16 March 2021
After four months in “the parliamentary labyrinths”, Government’s draft law for taking a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for construction of two Bus Rapid Transit lines in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, yesterday finally passed through the Financing and Budget Committee’s filters. The Government finalized the draft-law for rapid […]
