Tag: diaspora
Macedonia 04.02.24 | 17:58

Mickoski: The next Government will facilitate the return of Macedonian retirees

Speaking from Geneva, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski announced that the next Government will elevate relations between Macedonia and its diaspora. If we can’t form a Ministry for the Diaspora, we will create a coordinative body with the Foreign Ministry, Interior Ministry, Education Ministry...
Macedonia 16.09.22 | 12:20

The state administration will be filled with Albanians from the diaspora!?

In state institutions and ministries, the preparations for harmonizing employment along ethnic lines began after the Minister of Information Society and Administration, Admirim Aliti, created a new balancer. A letter from the ministry has reached the institutions, which states that in the employment...
Macedonia 30.03.22 | 15:41

The price of the census boycott was paid by the Macedonians – 132,260 remained unregistered

The results of the census conducted last year showed that 132,260 residents remained unregistered. Many doors remained closed due to calls to boycott the census. The census takers did not knock on many doors for one reason or another, but that did not make the Macedonians go to the census sites and register...
Economy 25.12.21 | 10:00

Diaspora remittances surpassed 3 percent of the GDP in 2020

Eurostat estimates that the Macedonian diaspora made 361 million EUR in personal transfers to their relatives and friends in 2020. It amounts to over 3 percent of the Macedonian GDP, and unregistered transfers and diaspora spending during visits to Macedonia is significantly higher. The sum is still...
Macedonia 08.11.21 | 13:43

Osmani: Successful start of the project for mobile issuance of passports for the diaspora in Slovenia

The base and mobile stations for preparation and issuance of travel documents of citizens of the Republic of Macedonia, who live and work abroad, have started working, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani informed on Facebook. With the new equipment in our diplomatic and consular missions, the procedure for...
Macedonia 28.09.21 | 09:56

Nearly 200,000 citizens who live abroad registered in the census

A total of 1,619,857 persons, 503,491 households and 711,695 apartments were counted until yesterday in Macedonia’s 2021 Population and Housing Census, according to the State Statistical Office on Monday. 198.589 citizens who live abroad have submitted their applications online so far. Today is the...
Macedonia 22.09.21 | 14:09

Zaev defends the idea of counting the diaspora in the census: They might decide to come back tomorrow

Zoran Zaev defended the controversial concept of counting the emigrants from Macedonia among the actual residents of the country in the on-going census. The move is designed to inflate the Albanian share of the population, but according to Zaev, it is important because the emigrants might at some point...
Macedonia 24.03.21 | 10:34

Imam in Germany also included in registering Albanians in the census: This is how the census modeled by Zaev, Filipce and Simovski is conducted

The diaspora census came down to census of Albanians. Most of the 130,000 registered so far outside Macedonia are ethnic Albanians because Macedonians are boycotting the census. Highest registration has been recorded in Switzerland, Germany and Italy, and there is a mass boycott among Macedonians living...
Macedonia 22.03.21 | 13:37

Number of emigrants registered in the census rises to 121,000

The number of Macedonian emigrants who registered in the census surpassed 121,000. Macedonian citizens who live abroad are registering online, through a web site set up by the State Statistics Bureau, and have until April 21 to input their data. Turnout is far stronger in the Albanian diaspora in Western...
Macedonia 21.03.21 | 17:56

Our diaspora is the best in the world, says Grubi informing that 99,500 citizens abroad have registered in the census survey so far

First Deputy PM and Minister for Political System Artan Grubi posted on Sunday via Facebook that a total of 99,500 nationals from the diaspora have used the self-registration census option, of which 11,500 in the past 24 hours. Our diaspora is really the best in the world. Register at https://census.stat.gov.mk/,...
Macedonia 15.03.21 | 21:06

Osmani travels to Switzerland to help add as many of the emigrants to the census as possible

Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani is in Switzerland tomorrow to urge diaspora members to register in the coming census. Osmani is from the DUI party which represents ethnic Albanians, and which insists on having as many Albanian members of the diaspora counted in the census. Switzerland has a large...
Macedonia 15.03.21 | 12:48

Osmani: Over 60,000 citizens from the diaspora register in the census, mostly from Switzerland, Germany and Italy, weaker results in Canada and Australia

The headcount of diplomats ends today, but continues for the diaspora. The number of registered citizens from the diaspora exceeded 60 thousand. In the first place is Switzerland with about 16 thousand, which is a quarter of the expected numbers, followed by Germany with 10 thousand, Italy with six thousand,...
Macedonia 11.03.21 | 17:44

We are more when we are together: Ahmeti called on the Albanian diaspora to respond to the census

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti called on the Albanian diaspora to respond en masse to the census via Facebook. In a video message he says that the more Albanians from the diaspora are listed in the census, the stronger they will be. We are more when we are together, said Ahmeti. Ahmeti called on the diaspora...
Macedonia 10.03.21 | 16:47

Over 45,000 citizens living abroad have filled out the online census survey so far

A total of 45,755 citizens living abroad have filled out the online census survey until 9 am today, according to the State Statistical Office. The online census survey is available to emigrants and employees in the diplomatic-consular missions. The census in the country will start on April 1 and will...
Macedonia 04.03.21 | 18:33

Over 22,000 citizens registered on the online census

The State Statistics Bureau (DZS) informed that 22,000 Macedonian citizens have registered using the census website that went online earlier this week. After numerous reports of problems with the website and security lapses, DZS insists that not all these applications will be counted toward the final...
Macedonia 02.03.21 | 13:58

Expats complain: It is easier to register in the census from Macedonia than from abroad

The diaspora census as the first step in the population census began with much controversy and inconsistencies. After several It experts informed that they had easily breached the system and that they had registered from Macedonia, although it should be available only from abroad, the State Statistical...
Macedonia 01.03.21 | 10:52

Grubi in Albanian language called on the diaspora to register, the Macedonian diaspora is not informed about the census yet

The counting of the diaspora is starting today. The diaspora census will mast from March 1 to March 15. The census surveys will be accessible to Macedonian citizens staying abroad for work or other personal reasons longer than 12 month. Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grubi in Albanian language yesterday...
Macedonia 02.02.21 | 12:24

Tens of thousands of Macedonians from the diaspora may remain uncounted in the census because passport issuance procedure is too slow

Tens of thousands of Macedonians living abroad may remain uncounted in the census because the issuance of Macedonian travel documents is late. They have been appealing for half a year to be issued travel documents because they cannot properly extend their stay in the country, and also because they will...
Macedonia 07.11.20 | 12:06

Macedonian diaspora organizations condemn Bulgaria for its veto

Macedonian diaspora organizations are condemning Bulgaria for its pressure against Macedonia, after it violated one of its key articles of the 2017 Zaev – Borisov treaty and blocked the opening of EU accession talks with Macedonia. Macedonians across the world bitterly denounce any future “treaties”...
Economy 18.06.20 | 19:51

Business chamber demands the border to open for the free-spending diaspora

The Economic Chamber of North West Macedonia, an association of largely ethnic Albanian owned businesses, called on the Government to immediately open the border for the diaspora visitors who usually flock to Macedonia during the summer season. Free spending Macedonian emigrants to Germany, Switzerland,...
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