Tag: Gevgelija
Macedonia 04.08.19 | 11:58

Five border police officers caught accepting bribes

Five police officers from the Gevgelija border crossing with Greece were arrested on bribery charges. The men were caught in by the internal police control. Following a search, more than 800 EUR and alcohol which they also accepted as bribes were found with the five men. It was not specified what exactly...

Macedonia 04.08.19 | 11:48

Police stops trafficker with 24 migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh

A 37 year old man from Veles was arrested on Saturday evening, after police caught him transporting 24 illegal migrants in the back of a pickup truck. The migrants are from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Police intercepted the group on the highway between Gevgelija and Demir Kapija, which is the...

Macedonia 29.07.19 | 10:24

Police stops truck carrying 79 migrants who crossed over from Greece

Another in the near-daily arrests of groups of migrants crossing Macedonia on their way from Greece to the European Union. The police stopped a Mercedes truck on Sunday near the Gevgelija border crossing with Greece, and found it was carrying 79 migrants. The driver, 25 year old V.K. from the near by...

Macedonia 19.07.19 | 10:48

Police stops a truck carrying 48 migrants near the Greek border

Police stopped a truck driven by a 26 year old man from Skopje, who was transportting 48 migrants. The truck was stopped near Gevgelija, close to the border with Greece, where the driver picked the migrants up, and was likely planning to take them to the border with Serbia. There were 38 migrants from...

Macedonia 18.04.19 | 20:35

Zaev announces plan to push public sector employees into the private sector

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced that he is going ahead with his plan to reduce the public administration by pushing public sector employees into the private sector. Zaev made the announcement during a rally in Gevgelija, ahead of the presidential elections, where the votes of the public administration...

Macedonia 15.04.19 | 21:37

In the election we will be joined by those who intend to boycott

I think that people who have dilemmas after what happened in the referendum, whether this government is capable and whether it wants to organize fair and democratic elections, I refer to those who intend to boycott, I think that they too will join us because they will understand that only from within,...