Tag: young people

The inaugural session of the Youth Assembly of the City of Skopje, 30 October 2022; Photo: City Hall of Skopje   The Mayor of Skopje, Danela Arsovska in her Manifesto “For Modern Skopje" for the local elections, as one of her promises for the youth of Skopje, also promised to establish the Youth Assembly of the City of Skopje as a...

Youth unemployment remains a problem that North Macedonia must work hard to solve, notes the latest Report of the EC on North Macedonia's EU accession progress. The youth and meeting the needs of this group remainс a challenge that has to be addressed and solved. The report stresses the problems that North Macedonia has to solve, as well as...

The primary and secondary school pupils, but also the undergraduate students in North Macedonia, should have access to free counseling centers, where they will be able to discuss their problems and talk freely about everything which is bothering them. This is the conclusion from the online debate that took place on the 27th of April 2022, organized by the...

In North Macedonia, there are 638.000 people up to 29 years of age, which is 34.7% of the total resident population in the country. According to the last census performed last year, this is 1,836,713 people. On the other hand, there are 419,125 people aged from 60 to beyond 85, which is 22.8% of the total population. According to the...

Apart from women and persons with disabilities, the young people are yet another group that in regard of the political participation, is one of the most marginalized in North Macedonia. Although a quarter of the population are young people aged up to 29, only 3% of the mayoral candidates at the local elections that took place in October were young...

The vakcinacija.mk website is open for scheduling a term for vaccination for children and young people aged 12 to 18, which will start on Monday. According to the data from the Moj Termin system by yesterday afternoon, a total of 1,623 children and young people have shown an interest in vaccination against COVID-19. Most of the registered are from Skopje,...

During the coronavirus crisis, the Government of North Macedonia brought out umbrella policies i.e. an effort to encompass as much people as possible instead of targeted measures for specific groups that were under biggest pressure from the crisis, which would have protected them the  best, stressed Blažen Maleski from the "Reactor - Research in Action" think-tank, during the presentation...

Limited physical contacts, new ways of socialization, online learning, fear, and uncertainty about the future... These are some of the challenges that the young people have faced during the global COVID-19 crisis. For some, it meant more time for themselves, but for others, it meant difficult everyday life. Individually, each of the young people accepted the world health crisis...

The young people in North Macedonia have different plans for their summer vacation in the forthcoming period, showed the survey that was carried out by the @studentarijamk Instagram profile. The questions were posted online on 5 and 6th of July, and 3.129 respondents replied. When asked whether they plan a summer vacation during the next three months, 51.8 % of...

Young people from countries in the Western Balkans, have a negative attitude towards immigrants, even though most of them have never come into contact with an immigrant. The main reason for the youth’s negative attitude towards immigrants is the negative perception of the religion of Islam. This was shown by research, and a survey on the perception and the attitudes of...

“Students should be left alone to think critically and to express themselves, and every time someone imposes their opinion on them, or intimidates and abuses them, we strongly condemn it. Causing agitation among young people for achieving partisan purposes must stop”, said a statement released by the Youth Education Forum (MOF). They added that “principals, teachers and parents need to...

Parliament today should continue its discussion on the of growing problem of emigration, especially the emigration of young people leaving Macedonia, at the proposal of the MPs from the opposition. On today's agenda is the continuation of the 67th session and the draft Law on the Budget for the Republic of Macedonia for 2016, however a shortened procedure.

The only "success" of Nikola Gruevski for young people in Macedonia is that, due to his bad, wrong and criminal policies, more than 250 thousand young people moved out of the country, reacts SDSM to the speech of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski at the conference of UMS of VMRO-DPMNE. "Gruevski is the source, the essence of numerous problems in Macedonia...