Category: News
Macedonia 28.10.24 | 20:34

The drive from Skopje to Ohrid will be reduced to 1.5 hours

Deputy Prime Minister and Transportation Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski joined Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski today, to inspect work on the Gostivar – Kicevo highway. We are beginning an enormous project. The largest of its kind in the recent history of Macedonia. The highway to bypass the...

Macedonia 28.10.24 | 20:31

Mickoski: We are working to turn Macedonia into a triple crossroad

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski and his deputy Aleksandar Nikoloski inspected the work done on the Kicevo – Gostivar highway, that is supposed to connect Skopje to the Macedonian cultural capital Ohrid. 1, After literally two years fo vain talk and empty promises, we are finally seeing something...

Balkans 27.10.24 | 22:29

Borisov wins Bulgarian elections, but again without conclusive majority

Exit polls in Bulgaria show that the conservative GERB party led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is handily winning in the latest general elections, but that, like in the half dozen previous attempts, it will find it difficult to actually form a Government. GERB is winning with 26.4 percent of...

Macedonia 27.10.24 | 22:25

Ahmeti sends letters to leaders of Albania, Kosovo, US, Germany, France and the EU, warns about Macedonia’s future stability

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti send letters to his political ally Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania, to other leaders in Albania and Kosovo, as well as to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the leaders of Germany, France and the Secretary of State of the US. In the letter, Ahmeti expresses...

Macedonia 27.10.24 | 15:41

Government signs contracts for municipal projects worth 250 million EUR

A total of 275 contracts worth 250 million EUR with nearly all municipalities in the country were signed in the Government today. The funds are being distributed from the bilateral loan taken from Hungary, said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski. The contracts include reconstruction, construction and...

Macedonia 27.10.24 | 15:33

Mickoski defends appointment of new security chief, says attacks from SDSM’s espionage network only motivates him more

Bojan Hristovski, the newly appointed head of the ANB security service, meets all the necessary criteria for the appointment, said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, answering media questions. Hristovski was fired by the politicized leadership of ANB as the Zaev regime “reformed” the agency...

Macedonia 27.10.24 | 15:12

Mickoski welcomes decision of Committee members to resign after problematic pardons

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski welcomed the decision of the members of the Commission for pardons to resign, after two mobsters were given pardons by President Gordana Siljanovska. People make mistakes. Once the mistake was spotted, it is virtuous to assume responsibility. The only moral thing they...

Macedonia 26.10.24 | 19:53

All members of the Pardons Commission have resigned after their scandalous decision

Members of the Commission which advises the President on issuing pardons have submitted their resignations. The decision comes after two well known mobsters were placed on the list of a dozen sentenced persons who received pardons in honor of the Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle. The one...

Macedonia 26.10.24 | 15:13

Mickoski says he was able to present his positions on the dispute with Bulgaria to the key EU leaders

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski today said that he was able to raise all the necessary issues that relate to Macedonia’s EU accession talks with European Union leaders and with the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who was in Skopje on Thursday. According to Mickoski this means...

Macedonia 26.10.24 | 14:40

Centar Mayor Gerasimovski will not follow his Strumica colleague Kostadinov in the boycott of ZELS

Goran Gerasimovski, the Mayor of Skopje’s Centar district, announced that he will not follow his fellow SDSM party Mayor Kostadin Kostadinov from Strumica in leaving the ZELS association of municipalities. Kostadinov and Skopje’s Karpos Mayor Stevco Jakimovski announced the move earlier this...

Macedonia 26.10.24 | 14:30

Highway to Kosovo delayed because SDSM and DUI officials sold land along the route to turn a profit

Construction of the highway from Skopje to the border with Kosovo, which is only 10 kilometers long, is delayed because of machinations with te land along the route, said VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Brane Petrusevski. According to Petrusevski, SDSM and DUI party officials tipped off businessmen close...

Economy 26.10.24 | 11:34

Finance Minister Dimitrieska sees 3.7 growth rates in the coming years

Finance Minister Gordana Dimitrieska – Kocoska says that growth projection for 2024 will remain at the reduced level of 2.1 percent, but that Macedonia will grow at a faster rate in 2025 and in the subsequent years, of up to 3.7 percent. This estimate is based on the efficiency of the work of our...

Macedonia 26.10.24 | 11:28

Skopje: 15 year old stabbed an 18 year old

A 18 year old boy was stabbed yesterday evening in Skopje. The attack happened in a bus that was driving near the City Mall shopping center in Karpos. Two attackers assaulted the victim. Police subsequently arrested one of them, a 15 year old boy.

Macedonia 25.10.24 | 23:30

Former top SDSM official announces spring push to oust party leader Venko Filipce

Former SDSM top official Petre Silegov lashed out at his party, accusing the new leadership of holding it captive. He also sent out a cryptic message hinting at possible movement against the newly elected leader Venko Filipce, in March. Let’s not kid ourselves. SDSM is a captive party since 2019....

Macedonia 25.10.24 | 23:23

Steps to fight air pollution will include purchase of new buses and mapping out of main polluters

Environment Minister Izet Mexhiti announced new steps to reduce air pollution in Macedonia, mainly by changing the types of heating fuels that are used and reducing emissions from transportation. As part of the IPA 3 program, focused on reducing air pollution in Skopje, Bitola, Tetovo and Kumanovo, we...

Macedonia 25.10.24 | 23:17

First meeting of the new historic Commission seen as dynamic and constructive

The teams of Macedonian and Bulgarian historians in the joint Commission met in a dynamic, positive and constructive atmosphere, said Vanco Gjorgjiev, who leads the Macedonian group of historians. This is the first meeting in the new make-up of the Commission, after most of the historians on the Macedonian...

Macedonia 25.10.24 | 23:11

Mickoski discussed education reforms with NGO groups

As part of an IRI led project, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski met with a number of NGO groups operating in Macedonia. The Prime Minister called on the civic sector to actively participate in the coming changes in the education system, that will focus on improving the quality of education for the medical,...

Macedonia 25.10.24 | 23:08

Nikoloski: Six new direct flights to Barcelona, Istanbul, Lyon, Dubai..

Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski announced that six destinations will be added to the Skopje and Ohrid airports with budget companies. Fly Dubai will link Skopje to Dubai twice a week starting in June 2025. The popular destination of Barcelona will be covered three times a week. Lyon and Stuttgart...

Macedonia 25.10.24 | 22:33

VIDEO: This is how Macedonians in Pirin Macedonia became Bulgarians overnight!

The Bulgarian National Television published a report dedicated to the village of Borovicane in the municipality of Petrich, which is a few kilometers from the border with Macedonia. Grandma Ilinka, a resident of Borovicane who was a proxy in 1965, recalled that then the village should have been called...

Economy 25.10.24 | 22:22

Nikoloski brings good news: Six new flights will be launched in 2025, connecting Skopje with Dubai, Barcelona, ​​Ohrid with Istanbul

Next year, six new flights will be launched to the country’s two international airports, Skopje and Ohrid, as part of an open call for flight subsidies, the Minister of Transport Aleksandar Nikoloski announced at today’s press conference. Thus, the new routes will connect Skopje with Dubai,...

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