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Macedonia 27.10.24 | 15:41

Government signs contracts for municipal projects worth 250 million EUR

A total of 275 contracts worth 250 million EUR with nearly all municipalities in the country were signed in the Government today. The funds are being distributed from the bilateral loan taken from Hungary, said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski. The contracts include reconstruction, construction and...
Macedonia 25.10.24 | 23:08

Nikoloski: Six new direct flights to Barcelona, Istanbul, Lyon, Dubai..

Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski announced that six destinations will be added to the Skopje and Ohrid airports with budget companies. Fly Dubai will link Skopje to Dubai twice a week starting in June 2025. The popular destination of Barcelona will be covered three times a week. Lyon and Stuttgart...
Economy 25.10.24 | 22:22

Nikoloski brings good news: Six new flights will be launched in 2025, connecting Skopje with Dubai, Barcelona, ​​Ohrid with Istanbul

Next year, six new flights will be launched to the country’s two international airports, Skopje and Ohrid, as part of an open call for flight subsidies, the Minister of Transport Aleksandar Nikoloski announced at today’s press conference. Thus, the new routes will connect Skopje with Dubai,...
Macedonia 24.10.24 | 16:47

Von der Leyen expresses hope that Macedonia will open the EU accession talks soon

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Macedonia today, and expressed hope that the country will be able to open the first chapter of the EU accession talks soon. Von der Leyen insisted that Macedonia belongs to the European Union, and she called on the country to do the constitutional...
Macedonia 23.10.24 | 23:27

Mickoski: The Academy and the Government will prepare a strategy to guide Macedonia until 2050

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski announced that the Government and the MANU academy will prepare a long term strategy for development of the country, that will cover education, demographics, agriculture, economic development, infrastructure, energy and all other essential national areas. Macedonia needs...
Macedonia 23.10.24 | 09:52

Macedonia marks the founding of VMRO

Macedonia today marks the Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle, which celebrates the founding of VMRO – the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. VMRO was founded on October 23rd 1893 in Solun, with the goal of organizing resistance against the Ottoman rule and creation of an...
Macedonia 22.10.24 | 21:09

Only a quarter of cancer patients are receiving the modern chemo drugs they need

Only one quarter of patients diagnosed with cancer are receiving the recently introduced biological chemotherapy, which is considered safer and more efficient. The revelation comes a year after a major scandal rocked the clinic, with numerous allegations that doctors and staff were stealing the expensive...
Macedonia 21.10.24 | 20:08

Mickoski: We are committed to a solution with Bulgaria that will not lead to additional demands

Speaking at a European summit in Salzburg, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that Macedonia is eager to reach a solution in the dispute with Bulgaria that will prevent the opening of new, additional lines of dispute. Even if we include the Bulgarians in the Constitution, there is no guarantee that...
Economy 19.10.24 | 22:46

Mickoski: We stopped the economic free-fall

The economic situation is stabilizing and its free-fall has been stopped, said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski during a public event today. He was responding to allegations from SDSM member of Parliament Fatmir Bytyqi, who described the economic situation in Macedonia as disastrous, after the country...
Economy 18.10.24 | 17:17

Huge German wind investment coming to Kumanovo

A large new wind park worth 400 million EUR will be built in the area between Kumanovo and Kriva Palanka, said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski following his return from Germany. The Prime Minister said that the wind park will be a German investment, and that two other manufacturing investments will...
Macedonia 17.10.24 | 11:23

SDSM falls below 10 percent in latest poll

If elections were held today, SDSM would not win even 10 percent of the votes, shows the latest poll conducted by IPIS. According to the poll, VMRO-DPMNE would dominate the elections with 27.2 percent of the vote, while only 9.6 percent would go to SDSM. Additionally, more than a half of those polled...
Macedonia 16.10.24 | 19:07

Poll: VMRO dominates the political scene, leads SDSM 3:1

A poll conducted by IPIS finds that VMRO-DPMNE dominates the political scene, having the support of 27.2 percent of the voters, followed by SDSM with 9.6 percent. Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski is the most popular politician in the country, with 27.8 percent of the citizens declaring for him, while...
Economy 15.10.24 | 19:12

Prime Minister Mickoski presents investment potential before German companies

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski met with the German Chamber of Commerce and held a lecture to present the economic plans and energy potential of Macedonia before would-be investors. Besides the companies that are already present on our domestic market, additional companies expressed interest to invest...
Macedonia 14.10.24 | 19:24

Vanja’s mother was questioned about the conduct of the father

During the trial in the gruesome murder of young Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski, the court today heard from Vanja’s mother, Zorica Gjorcevska. The mother was asked about the conduct of her ex husband Aleksandar, who is a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of his daughter. She testified that...
Macedonia 13.10.24 | 11:44

Teacher salaries will go up by 50 percent in four years

Public teacher salaries will grow by 50 percent in the next four years, provides the agreement between the Government and the SONK union, under which an initial increase of 5 percent goes into effect in October. The agreement provides for future increases, coming each March. In 2025, the salaries will...
Economy 12.10.24 | 12:30

VMRO: SDSM and DUI left money in the budget only for half of 2024

The budget is unrealistically projected, and the previous Government left funds only for half of 2024, said VMRO-DPMNE in a statement. SDS and DUI planned the budget only for half of the year, and not for the whole of 2024. This leaves the new Government no room to maneuver. 83 million EUR will go to...
Macedonia 10.10.24 | 20:31

Taravari expects a law on the ethnic representation in public administration

Healthcare Minister Arben Taravari, who is one of the leading officials of the VLEN coalition, said that the Parliament now must adopt a law on ethnic representation in the public administration, after the Constitutional Court struck down the much criticized regulatory model called “the balancer”. The...
Macedonia 09.10.24 | 19:11

Constitutional Court abolishes much criticized model of ethnic hiring in the public administration

The Constituional Court today voted to abolish the so-called “balancer” – the regulation that mandated preferential hiring of ethnic minorities to the public administration in order to ensure the ethnic proportion or employees matches that of the country as a whole. The model was widely...
Macedonia 08.10.24 | 20:51

Mickoski: We made too many concessions, while Bulgaria won’t even allow Macedonians to organize

In an interview with a group of editors from the main media outlets in Macedonia, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski discussed the dispute with Bulgaria, that continues to block Macedonia’s EU accession process. The Prime Minister said that Macedonia is absolutely prepared to negotiate with Bulgaria,...
Macedonia 07.10.24 | 17:00

Mickoski: We intend to turn Macedonia into a key transport and energy crossroad in the Balkans

We intend to have Macedonia as a crossroad of road, energy and railway infrastructure in the region, said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski after his meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic in Skopje. The geographic location of our country is very important in this part of Europe. It will make...
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