Tag: blace
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...

Macedonia 15.09.24 | 10:45

DUI and VLEN are arguing over the language of a road sign

Deputy Prime Minister Izet Mexhiti accused his political opponent, Ali Ahmeti’s DUI party, of allowing road signs without Albanian inscription in them. The two rival parties, DUI and VLEN, are arguing after a sign at the border crossing Blace with Kosovo was placed in Macedonian, English and French,...

Macedonia 19.06.23 | 13:34

The perpetrator of the deadly car accident near Blace border crossing in custody

Public Prosecutor from the Basic Public Prosecutors Office in Skopje is gathering evidence on the heavy traffic accident that took place on Saturday near the border crossing “Blace” between Macedonia and Kosovo, in which three members of one family drowned in the river they fell in. Until...

Macedonia 25.12.22 | 22:45

Police official close to DUI allowed a wanted criminal to escape

A report by the Kod investigative outfit alleges that two border police officers allowed a wanted criminal from Albania to flee the country, and that the escape was facilitated by a police official from the ruling DUI party. Sokol Bibaj is one of the over 200 foreign citizens who were given Macedonian...

Economy 16.01.20 | 17:17

Destination: Kosovo – SDSM begins building its first highway and it’s two kilometers long

Over the past nearly three years, the Zaev regime was able to complete two major highways started and largely built by the previous, Nikola Gruevski led Government (Demir Kapija – Smokvica and Skopje – Stip), and hopelessly drag out the third (Kicevo – Ohrid). But no new highway construction...

Macedonia 15.11.19 | 11:29

TV21: SDSM and DUI officials are feuding for control over the main border crossing with Kosovo

TV21 is reporting a growing confrontation between the SDSM and DUI parties over who gets to contrl the Blace border crossing with Kosovo. The television reports that rival Interior Ministry officials from the two coalition partners were assigning and re-assigning employees at the border crossing based...

Macedonia 22.01.19 | 21:44

Woman hidden in the trunk of a car found at the Blace border crossing

Customs officers at the Blace border crossing towards Kosovo were shocked today when they found a 20 year old woman hidden in the trunk of a vehicle they stopped. The car had Macedonian license plates and was driven by a Macedonian citizen who was acting suspiciously during the crossing. At one point...