9 March 2021
The list of electricity subsidies beneficiaries in North Macedonia should be expanded to also include families with low incomes, families with only one family member employed, but also the unemployed and the workers made redundant. At the moment, this right for monthly support in the amount of MKD1 000 is only given to around 30 […]
27 January 2021
During yesterday’s conference titled “Vision for Energy Transition 2040,” Kreshnik Bekteshi, the Minister of Economy announced that this year North Macedonia will ban the import of used cars below the EURO 5 standard of gas emissions. “This year, the norms for imported cars in our country will be expanded. Regarding the measures, we are already […]
13 January 2021
There aren’t any subsidies from the state budget for 2021 for the citizens who would like to buy electric or hybrid vehicles, the assets planed for subsidizing the installing of LPG fuel systems in old vehicles are projected to only 210.000 EUR for the next 12 months, the eco stickers for the vehicles weren’t implemented […]
31 December 2020
Through the Program for the support of print media, the Government of North Macedonia has provided financial aid for some of the media outlets. “The financial aid has been approved to those print media outlets that have met all of the obligations towards the state and the employees for 2019. In accordance with the 2020 […]
18 November 2020
North Macedonia’s Ministry of Economy’s budget for 2021 will be 826 million MKD or 13.4 million EUR, and 190 million MKD (3 million EUR) are planned for various subsidies, informed the Minister of Economy Kreshnik Nekteshi in a press conference, when he presented the Ministry of Economy’s draft-budget for the next year. He said that […]
13 October 2020
The Government of North Macedonia will continue with the financial support for Wiz Air for establishing new flights from both Macedonian airports as soon as the low budget airline resumes the flights in accordance with the conditions and statutes planned by the Agreement for the period between 2019 and 2022, informs the Ministry of Transport […]
18 July 2020
Media reforms in North Macedonia were very low on the agenda of policy and decision makers in the first quarter of 2020, states the report titled “Monitoring of Media Reform Process and the Work of AVMS and MRT” by the Media Development Center. COVID-19 pushed out the issue of media reforms from the agenda and […]
7 July 2020
The media and the self-regulation, the threats and lawsuits that the journalists face, the fake news, media literacy, and the financial support for the media are all present in the electoral manifestos of two of the biggest political parties that will be participating in North Macedonia’s parliamentary elections on the 15th of July. In VMRO-DPMNE’s […]
2 July 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has had an enormous negative effect on the functioning of public transportation in Skopje and the Public Transportation Company-Skopje (Javno soobrakjajno pretprijatie – Skopje – JSP -Skopje). The long lockdown hours, closed schools, and colleges, many people working from their homes, including people’s fears to use public transportation, in a period of […]
11 June 2020
The Government has three conditions under which it will fully subsidize the social security contributions for the employees at various media outlets, television, radio broadcasters, printed media, and Internet portals. This was stressed at today’s press conference by the Deputy Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani and the Minister for Communications, Accountability, and […]
11 June 2020
During yesterday’s session, the Government adopted a Decree to subsidize the social security contributions for media employees. The Decree determines the conditions, the ways, and the procedures for covering the social security contributions for media employees who worked and reported about the COVID-19 situation during the state of emergency i.e. during June, July, and August […]
12 April 2019
Within its commitments for free, independent and professional media, Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society deems that the media should not be directly and financially aided by the state. The aid ought to come in other forms such as lowering the tax rates and lifting the journalist employment fees and it ought to be for […]
16 August 2017
With the budget rebalance of the City of Skopje, another 3.5 million euros are planned as alleged subsidies to the Public Transport Company, but that money will end up for the Panorama Wheel, said Dragi Davcevski, SDSM’s coordinator for Consultancy Group and the Coalition Council of the City of Skopje, as well. He stressed that […]
17 December 2015
“Buying a House for the Youth” is a new project that the Government will start from February 1, 2016, which at today’s press conference was announced by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. The aim of the project, as the Prime Minister put it, is the youth up to 35 years old should have easier access to getting […]
8 August 2015
The Ministry of Finance gave 227 million denari in subsidies to 8711 farmers. The subsidies were mostly given to milk producers. For the production and sale of sheep, cow and goat milk, 8562 farmers received 206 million denari. The Ministry has paid 1.4 million denari to support the production of garden produce in green houses […]
23 June 2015
Minister of Labor and Social Policy Dime Spasov today announced the measure subsidized employment of people at social risk, as well as assistance for the private sector with direct subsidies to create jobs for these categories. Through subsidized employment of persons with social risk will include recipients of social assistance, victims of domestic violence, persons […]
1 March 2015
Farmers from all over Macedonia today in Bitola formed a new agricultural association with pretensions of trade union under the name “Republic trade union association for agricultural salvation.” President of the association is Nikolche Boshevski, a farmer from the village of Novaci, who handles more than 20 hectares of agricultural land and is one of […]
