Saturday, July 27, 2024
If a referendum were to be held today on the question of whether they would support the country's accession to the EU, 68 percent of the citizens of Macedonia would answer in the affirmative, according to the public opinion poll of the International Republican Institute - IRI, conducted in...
A total of 1,128,000 Macedonian tourists visited Greece last year, a figure almost doubled compared to 2022, show data of the Institute of the Association of Greek Tourist Businesses INSETE. In the “Who goes where? How long does it stay? How much does it spend?” survey, INSETE analyzes official data...
The only party of the Macedonians in Albania, the Macedonian Alliance for European Integration, continues advocating for the country's new electoral code to guarantee parliamentary seats for minorities. The parties of other minorities in the country joined them in these commitments and together submitted a request to the competent Albanian...
The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has officially nominated Greek diplomat Michalis Rokas as the EU Ambassador to N. Macedonia. He has been serving as EU Ambassador to Malaysia since December 2020. Rokas has previously served as Head of Division for support to Delegations...
A fifty-four-year-old Macedonian national with the initials I.D was arrested in Kosovo under the suspicion of circulating counterfeit money, specifically US dollars. The Directorate for the Investigation of Economic Crime and Corruption caught the suspect in the act during his attempt to circulate a large sum of dollars in...
The Albanian police near the city of Rogozhina prevented the smuggling of artifacts and icons and arrested two people in whose vehicle they were discovered. “As part of the “Icons” raid, in the vehicle in which the now arrested Pelumb Leka (53) and Emanuel Chacho (56) were, the police discovered...
The forces for control and protection of the sovereignty of the airspace of the Republic of Serbia on Saturday at 10:39 a.m. over the city of Valjevo, at an altitude of 5,500 meters, discovered an unknown flying object, Serbian B92 reports. On the orders of President Aleksandar Vuči, a pair...
According to the recently published Balkan Defense Monitor 2024, Serbia is the leading country in the region in terms of defense spending, which amounted to 2% of its GDP in 2023, followed by N. Macedonia with 1.7% and Albania with 1.6%. The latter two countries, both of which are...
Wizz Air has cut down the number of flights from the former Yugoslav republics, and the most affected by this change are Skopje and Ohrid. According to the initial information, the reason for the drastic reducing of the flights was an anomaly found in a specific component of the...
Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned North Macedonia's Ambassador in Sofia to a meeting about "recent public comments by politicians in the neighboring country and their false statements related to the Republic of Bulgaria," the Bulgarian MFA said in a press release. Without disclosing any specifics on the politicians or...