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Bulgaria can decide how it will be using the revenues it makes from the €10/MWh tax on Russian gas imports transiting through Bulgarian territory, the European Commission confirmed. Last Thursday, Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov announced that consultations are underway between Bulgaria and the European Commission on the energy tax...

A Macedonian national was killed in Sonchev Breg, Bulgaria. On Thursday around 11:00, the regional office of Nessebar received a message that a male body with visible head injuries was found in a wooded area next to the restaurant "Bacvata" on Sonchev Breg. After the police inspection, it was established...

According to the Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Fatmir Bytyqi, the Government's timely measures, such as the freezing of trade margins in trade, the reduction of the VAT rate from 10% to 5% for basic food products, the subsidization of electricity for food producers, as well as the freezing...

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...

I did not sign because Serbia is an internationally recognized country and Kosovo is not for me. And I don’t want to make an international legal agreement with the Republic of Kosovo, said Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučič said in an address to the Serbian public a day after the...

The Prime Mi0nister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, also spoke on the occasion of the attack on Serbian young men near Shtrpce, who said that even on the holy Orthodox night, Serbs in Kosovo are not safe. The Prime Minister also wrote on Twitter that she condemns this crime, as well...

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...

De facto recognition of Kosovo by Serbia this is how Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti evaluates the unsigned agreement in Ohrid, for which he accused Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučič. Kurti said it was now up to the EU to find mechanisms to force Serbia to sign the deal. "The basic...

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...

Changing the Preamble of the Macedonian Constitution is a guarantee for the start of the new phase of North Macedonia’s EU negotiation process, said the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the country, Dirk Jan Kop, in an interview with Radio Free Europe. Despite Bulgaria's threats of a...