Thursday, 13 May 2021
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 23:16

Nikoloski:Early elections are certain, whether in October or in early 2022  

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski insists that early general elections will take place either together with the municipal elections in October, or soon after, when the extent of the VMRO victory over Zaev’s SDSM party is clear. We are absolute favorites in the municipal elections. We see...
Macedonia Economy 13.05.21 | 23:02

“Macedonia has entered a period of inflation”

Macedonia has entered into inflation, warns VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski, pointing to official reports from the Central Bank. The reports place the inflation rate at 2.2 percent, above the projected 1.5 percent. The real inflation rate has surpassed 3 percent. Food and electric energy...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 22:55

Dimovski: The Prespa Treaty led to the dispute with Bulgaria

Zaev’s Prespa Treaty with Greece and the redefining of the Macedonian national identity contained in it opened the door for Bulgarian politicians to condition Macedonia, said VMRO-DPMNE official Ilija Dimovski in an interview this evening. Dimovski, who is a well informed participant in the disputes...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 22:41

Nikoloski: Only homes will be legalized under the new law, not commercial real-estate

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski clarified that the newly adopted bill for legalization of unlawful builds will only apply to homes, and not to commercial real-estate. VMRO largely supported the law in Parliament, along with the ruling coalition, but it caused some concerns in the public...
Macedonia Sport 13.05.21 | 20:50

Goran Pandev bids farewell to Genoa

Goran Pandev bid farewell to Genoa after a successful season in which the team avoided relegation. Survival ensured, 100 goals in Serie A and 150 games in this jersey. I want to share my joy with the Genoa fans. I wish all luck to Genoa in the future. Now it’s time to focus on the European Championship...
Macedonia Economy 13.05.21 | 20:44

Chamber of commerce will survey companies who need priority vaccines for their workers

The Healthcare Ministry will work with the SKM chamber of commerce to provide priority vaccination to workers who operate in crowded conditions. Macedonia is lagging badly behind otherr countries in vaccinations, with less than 10 percent of the population having received one dose and a negligible number...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 20:34

Zaev promised Tusk that he will fight corruption and work with the opposition

A day after EPP party leader Donald Tusk issued a warning to the Zaev regime, Zaev met with him in Athens. Tusk yesterday spoke on the phone with VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski and afterwards said that the Macedonian Government needs to fight corruption, keep its hands off from the judiciary, work...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 20:19

Butel Mayor bids tearful fairwell to the gunned down mobster

Butel Mayor Velimir Smilevski confirmed that he was very close to the mobster Kamer Idrizi, who was machine-gunned to death with his nephew yesterday in Skopje. Idrizi was close to the ruling SDSM party and was often pictured with Smilevski, people from the Mayor’s entourage, in some instances brandishing...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 19:02

Zaev tells a Greek audience that his dispute with Bulgaria is ridiculous and made-up

During a panel in Athens, Zoran Zaev insisted that the dispute he is having with Bulgaria is ridiculous and made-up. Bulgaria is blocking Macedonia from opening EU accession talks as it demands significant concessions on issues of national identity and history. Zaev told the amused Greek audience that...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 18:52

Parents and students will protest plan to digitilize textbooks on Saturday

An association of parents of high-school students is planning protests across the entire country on Saturday. Parents demand that Education Minister Mila Carovska gives up on her plan to make school textbooks digital. They fear that the proposal has little to do with actual education reform plans, but...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 17:47

Greece opens its border for Macedonian tourists

More than a year after it was closed, Greece will open its border for Macedonian citizens tomorrow. The requirement for entry will be a negative PCR test, a certificate of received two doses of a coronavirus vaccine or an anti-body test and only the Gevgelija border crossing will be used. The announcement...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 17:35

Professor Siljanovska opposed the bill to legalize unlawfully built houses

Gordana Siljanovska, former VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate and the head of the party’s district 1 list in the 2020 elections, was one of the five members of Parliament who voted against the bill to legalize unlawfully built homes. On the SDSM coalition side, the representatives from DOM, LDP and...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 17:09

Vaccination report: Share of population given at least one dose approaches 10 percent

The Healthcare Ministry informed that so far it has distributed over 175,000 doses of vaccines, and over 25,000 citizens have taken both doses. About 10 percent of the population have received at least one dose. Daily, about 14,000 citizens are being vaccinated. Currently, some 330,000 citizens are awaiting...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 15:48

Man with criminal records killed in Butel gunfight seen in several photos with government officials

When asked by a reporter about the murder that took place yesterday in Butel, VMRO-DPMNE spokesperson Dimce Arsovski said that he was a man with criminal records, who was seen in several photos on social networks with government officials. There is no more to comment on such a government, seen photographed...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 15:35

Number of deaths high again, number of new Covid-19 cases drops

Out of 2,598 COVID-19 tests carried out in Macedonia in the past 24 hours, 123 new cases were registered, 3,803 patients have recovered and 17 passed away, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Out of the total number of recovered, 3,564 were reported as positive for the virus in the period 01.01-31.03.2021....
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 13:32

Analyses show the Macedonian officer is not infected with the South African strain of the coronavirus, new strain detected

The Macedonian officer who was brought from Africa is not infected with the South African strain of the coronavirus, but a Nigerian strain of the virus has been detected. According to the analysis from the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Nigerian strain of the virus was detected in the officer,...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 13:20

Milososki: Only oligarchs will benefit from the sale of agricultural land for one euro

According to VMRO-DPMNE, selling state-owned agricultural land for one euro is not good, as only certain oligarchs who have black funds would use it to legalize it and become large landowners, but the people and the state as a whole would not benefit and we are against such a solution, said MP Antonio...
Balkans 13.05.21 | 12:10

Varvitsiotis: Greece doesn’t accept decoupling of Macedonia and Albania on the EU road

Europe must keep its promises and there should be no delay in the accession process for Macedonia and Albania, said Greece’s Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis at the Delphi Forum in Athens and stressed that they do not agree with the possible decoupling of Skopje and...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 12:02

Macedonia’s top leaders congratulate Ramadan Bayram

Macedonia’s top leaders have sent greetings to the Reis ul Ulema Haji Shakir Efendi Fetai and all Islamic followers in the country on the occasion of the Muslim holiday Ramadan Bayram. In these difficult times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the holy holiday of Ramadan Bayram brings hope for a new...
Macedonia 13.05.21 | 11:31

Muslims celebrate Ramadan Bayram

Islamic believers in Macedonia and all across the world celebrate Ramadan Bayram, the end of the holy month of fasting, on Thursday. Observance of Ramadan is mandated in the Quran. The celebration lasts for three days. It is a day of reconciliation and reuniting. It is also a day when the power of rich...
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