Tag: infrastructure
Macedonia 11.11.24 | 23:42

Nearly a billion EUR in infrastructure investments in 2025

During his visit to Prilep, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that in 2025, almost a billion EUR will be invested in infrastructure, from the major highway projects, to the 250 million EUR worth of local roads and water lines. We have quadrupled the speed of implementation of the highways between...

Macedonia 01.06.21 | 19:06

There is nothing from the infrastructure facilities promised by the Government, it is time for them to leave

There is nothing from the infrastructure facilities promised by the Government, it is time for them to leave, Hristijan Mickoski, leader of VMRO DPMNE said at Tuesday press conference. There is nothing from the infrastructure facilities that they promised but did not realize. It is time for them to leave,...

Macedonia Economy 19.10.20 | 09:09

SDSM and DUI feud over expected EU infrastructure windfall

The ruling SDSM and DUI parties have postponed the appointment of managers to some key public companies. Even thought the two parties have announced an agreement as to who gets what, which includes some major swaps in lucrative utilities, the new appointment haven’t been formally approved yet by...

Macedonia 02.03.20 | 11:50

The SDSM led Government barely spends any of the funds earmarked for infrastructure

Infrastructure investments are at mere 1.67 percent in January 2020, the Kurir news site reports based on Finance Ministry data. This is by far the lowest level of spending the money that are already appropriated in the budget for building up Macedonia’s infrastructure since its independence. The...

Economy 28.02.20 | 13:54

Misajlovski: Citizens deserve better roads to make their lives easier and better

SDSM has not built a single kilometer highway. They have not begun the construction of any of those 500km highway they promised. All of these express roads you see in Macedonia that are being built, some stalled because of obstacles, and the authorities does not know how to handle, were begun by VMRO...

Economy 18.02.20 | 12:08

Mickoski presents an ambitious infrastructure plan worth two billion EUR

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski presented an ambitions infrastructure development plan for the next four years, which he said will be implemented under a VMRO-DPMNe led Government. A key strategic project is finally building a highway that would connect Skopje with Macedonia’s second city...

Economy 06.02.20 | 12:39

Mickoski: Under SDSM, capital infrastructure projects have hit a historic low

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski called the track record of the SDSM led Government in building the planned public infrastructure as historically botched. Mickoski said that the planned infrastructure budget was at just 400 million EUR, after all the cuts, and even that wasn’t implemented...

Economy 02.09.19 | 15:43

Misajlovski warns that incompetence in building new infrastructure projects is dragging the whole economy down

Former Transportation Minister Vlado Misajlovski pointed to the dismal results in building the infrastucture which is already planned in the budget as evidence that the economy is suffering from incompetence on the part of the Government. The Macedonian economy is strongly affected by several major infrastructure...

Economy 22.04.19 | 13:27

Gruevski pained by the economic growth opportunities Macedonia is missing out on under Zaev

Nikola Gruevski was not actively involved in the presidential election campaign. The former Prime Minister and VMRO leader focused mostly on the economic mismanagement under the SDSM party, and reposted articles about the long list of infrastructure projects he started and SDSM seems completely unable...

Economy 26.12.18 | 15:19

Zaev unable to name three infrastructure investment projects he began in his year and half as Prime Minister

During a TV interview on Tuesday, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was unable to name a single infrastructure invesment started during his now year and a half in office. Pressed by journalist Fatmir Aliu, Zaev quickly named the Skopje – Blace highway, which will connect Macedonia to Kosovo and is high...

Economy 13.12.18 | 13:07

Gjorcev: the Government is punishing voters who support the opposition by denying them infrastructure funds

VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Vladimir Gjorcev accused the Zaev Government of deliberately cutting infrastructure investment as punishment for parts of the country which do not support the ruling SDSM and DUI parties. – Eastern Macedonia is literally put on a black list. Nothings is going to...