Tag: New Year
Macedonia 15.12.20 | 14:30

New closing time set at 18h in an attempt to prevent New Year parties

The Zaev Government announced a new set of coronavirus restrictions, meant to prevent holding New Year parties. In a joint press conference, Zaev and his Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce said that restaurants and bars will be ordered to close by 18h, instead of the current closing time of 21h. The ban...
Macedonia 10.12.20 | 20:48

Bitola can’t seem to get a New Year decoration right

Bitola town hall messed up the New Year decorating, putting up a message that is either misspelled or is in Bulgarian. The message originally declared “Zdrave 2021”, which means “health” in Bulgarian. In Macedonian, it should be “Zdravo 2021” (hello 2021) or “Zdravje 2021” (health in...
Macedonia 10.11.20 | 19:01

Despite the crisis, Skopje Mayor Silegov insists to put up New Year decorations

The SDSM party rejected the advice from VMRO-DPMNE to cancel the New Year decorations and divert the funds toward purchasing computers for poor families who can’t afford to allow their children to attend online classes. The not insignificant sum of 200,000 EUR that would be spent in the capital...
Macedonia 08.11.20 | 12:12

VMRO to Mayor Silegov: Cancel the New Year party, give the money to children who don’t have computers

Members of the Skopje city council from VMRO-DPMNE called on Mayor Petre Silegov to give up on his plan to spend 200,000 EUR on decorating the city for the New Year and to reallocate the money toward buying computers for children of poor families, struggling to attend online schooling. This is reckless...
Macedonia 01.01.20 | 15:38

Nikoloski: In 2020 we will win and begin the renewal of Macedonia

VMRO-DPMNE Vice-President Aleksandar Nikoloski detailed some of the worst failures of the Zaev regime in 2019, such as the Racket scandal and the loss of the much hoped for date to open EU accession talks. We leave a difficult year behind us. Macedonia was economically devastated and nationally disfigured....
Macedonia 01.01.20 | 12:07

Pro-Government journalist calls on TV editors to censor Hristijan Mickoski’s New Year message

A journalist close to the SDSM regime had the most petty New Year comment, when he called on media outlets not to broadcast the video message sent out by VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski. According to the comment, that was widely shared ahead of New Year’s day and was seen as an instruction...
Macedonia 01.01.20 | 11:33

Twin boy and girl – first babies born in 2020

Twins, brother and sister, were the first two children born in 2020 in Macedonia. The births were reported in the Skopje Clinic, a minute after midnight for the girl and two minutes later came the boy. The parents will receive presents from the city of Skopje.
Macedonia 31.12.19 | 16:11

Skopje clinics will be open non-stop for the New Year

Emergency medical teams and hospitals in Skopje will be on stand-by throughout the night to provide assistance to citizens who may get injured, or over-do it with the New Year celebrations. The clinics in Aerodrom, Cento, Cair, Shuto Orizari, Gjorce Petrov, Dracevo and Bit Pazar will operate in three...
Macedonia 30.12.19 | 10:48

New Year greetings from the Zaev family

Outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev congratulates the New Year to all citizens by posting photos of his family. Holidays bring special feelings of joy, warmth, and beauty to every home. Let use them to spend time with our loved ones and prepare jointly for new challenges, the outgoing Prime Minister...
Balkans 02.01.19 | 13:35

People swim and jump into the water during a traditional New Year’s swim in Slovenia

For the 15th time now, New Year’s Jumps to the sea were organised at the main beach of Portorož at the Slovenian coast. A record number of nearly 700 people participated at the jump to the Adriatic Sea, which showed today a temperature of 11 degrees Celsius. Participants are not only local people,...
World 31.12.18 | 13:38

Australia rings in New Year early with first round of fireworks

New firework designs including from a schoolgirl have lit up Sydney Harbour with families across eastern Australia treated to early New Year’s Eve pyrotechnics. Hundreds of thousands of people lined Sydney Harbour to watch the 9pm show with South Australian schoolgirl Dhrithi’s blue and white...
Culture 26.12.18 | 10:03

New Year-Christmas gala concert in Veles

A new Year-Christmas gala concert of the Macedonian Opera and Ballet (MOB) will take place in the Veles Theatre on Wednesday. This grandiose music event will be attended by 70 members of the Macedonian Opera and Ballet, of which 53 members of the orchestra and seven title-holders of the Macedonian Opera...
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