Tag: cars
Macedonia 28.02.23 | 13:25

Suspicious group of car resellers causes concern in Skopje

Citizens who have offered their vehicles for sale are warned about a group of resellers who are apparently running a scam. According to media reports, citizens in Skopje have had situations where they would try to sell cheap, old cars, only to have a group of people come over in expensive vehicles to...
Macedonia 11.03.22 | 11:32

Bulgarians in Macedonia warn that the Interior Ministry is harassing them, blame Minister Spasovski

Petar Kolev, leader of the GDU party that represents ethnic Bulgarians in Macedonia, accused the Interior Ministry of initiating a campaign of harassment against those driving cars with Bulgarian license plates. For days now, hundreds of people who drive cars with Bulgarian license plates report that...
Macedonia Economy 22.12.20 | 16:30

Parliament halves taxes to register foreign cars that are already used in Macedonia

The Macedonian Parliament approved a proposal from the Government to reduce taxes for registering foreign vehicles in Macedonia by 50 percent. This applies to cars who are already used in the country, brought here no later than October 1, and were driven under foreign license plates. The environmental...
Macedonia Economy 22.11.20 | 11:35

Citizens driving foreign cars will be allowed tax breaks if they register them in Macedonia

The Government plans to allow citizens who use cars with foreign license plates to register them in Macedonia. This is common practice especially in the east of the country, where cheaper imports from Bulgaria are often driven under their original license plates. Emigrants to western European countries...
Macedonia Economy 30.10.20 | 17:22

Sharp drop in the number of imported cars

Import of used cars has dropped by 42 percent over the first nine months of 2020. The Customs office said that only 11,000 cars were imported in this period, compared to 26,000 in 2019. As for new cars, the number of imports dropped from 6,300 to 3,800. Besides the coronavirus crisis, a big reason for...
Macedonia 20.10.20 | 09:30

VMRO holds protests in seven cities

VMRO-DPMNE is holding drive-through protests in seven cities this afternoon Party supporters will drive through the centers of Skopje, Veles, Ohrid, Kumanovo, Prilep, Stip and Bitola, starting at 18:30h. Macedonia is ran by criminals and injustice reigns. Political opponents are persecuted daily and...
Macedonia 02.09.20 | 15:03

Government agencies spent over eight million EUR for new cars

The Government and state institutions spent 8.1 million EUR over the past two and a half years purchasing new vehicles. A quarter of the newly bought vehicles were priced at over 30,000 EUR, the CGK group said. It pointed to the SOZR institution, which provides logistics for the Government, and purchased...
Macedonia 14.08.20 | 12:09

Tetovo police arrests the man who torched two EVN vehicles

Tetovo police said that it arrested the man who torched two vehicles owned by the EVN energy distribution company. The culprit is identified as K.O. (43). The Dacia and Nissan are nearly completely destroyed, and a near-by Golf was also affected by the fire that was planted overnight. It’s believed...
Macedonia 07.08.20 | 20:08

Two cars burn down in Karpos

Two cars were set on fire in Skopje’s Karpos district overnight. The incident was reported shortly after midnight, and the worst affected was a Skoda car. The fire spread to a part of a facade of a near-by building, as well as to a Volkswagen Passat that was parked close by. There is still no indication...
Macedonia 09.04.20 | 16:53

Interior Minister Culev denies claim from his SDSM appointed deputy that a limit of three people per car will be introduced

Interior Minister Nake Culev denied a claim from his deputy Slavjanka Petrovska, that the police will fine citizens who have more than two other people in their cars and that motorists will have to use protective equipment. Regarding the misinformation that were shared in the public that there are limitations...
Macedonia 16.01.20 | 21:21

New cars left unused, waiting for Minister Filipce to inaugurate them

Photographs of new, seemingly unused cars, hidden in the Bit Pazar clinic garage, surfaced online. When pressed on the issue, the head of the Skopje public hospitals Viktor Isijanovski said that the cars are meant to be used for home visits by doctors, but were not officially presented to the public...
Economy 03.12.19 | 19:33

Government abandons plans to fight air pollution by subsidizing the purchase of new cars

The Government has re-allocated the funding that was supposed to go to subsidies for buying new cars, and the measure that was presented as something that will help fight air pollution will now be abandoned. The subsidies were triumphantly announced just five months ago, as a major move to fight air...
Macedonia 04.09.19 | 11:46

Albanian man would steal cars in Macedonia, drive them across the border to sell them

Albanian police arrested a 53 year old man living in the border region with Macedonia, near Struga, on the charge that he was organizing vehicle theft in Macedonia. The cars would be stolen in Macedonia and then driven across the hills on the border to Albania, where they would be sold. The Albanian...

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