Thursday, April 25, 2024
Freezing prices is not a market solution, according to Zoran Jovanovski, vice president and advisor in the Office of the President of the Chamber of Commerce for macroeconomic issues and public finances of North Macedonia. According to Jovanovski, the burden of the crisis should not be borne by only one...
The Government is set to freeze the prices of rice and eggs on Tuesday, but also make a decision to limit the export of eggs. Regarding sugar and flour, there will be no intervention yet. It will be waiting for the retailers to make these products cheaper themselves, while...
The country lacks around 10,000 workers per year, according to the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, FatmirBytyqi “The biggest lack of staff is in construction and hospitality. The country tries to provide workers from imports without restrictions from which country, and hopes that ours will be motivated to report...
The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy reported that according to the decision of the Government, starting from March 2022, according to the new Methodology for harmonizing pensions, with the March payment, pensions will increase by 8.4%. With the legal amendments, a new way of harmonizing pensions was foreseen, whereby...
The State Audit Office of the Republic of North Macedonia (SAO) published on Thursday the Audit Report on the work of the Fund for Innovation and Technological Development (FITR) for 2022 for the period from 2019 to 2021. Undefined activities and inconsistencies with the strategic, normative acts and established...
The Government has adopted a Decision that determines the obligations of traders who are registered for trading, as well as traders who are legal and natural persons registered for production, who sell their products on the market in their own stores or to other traders on wholesale and retail...
The Macedonian Ministry of Economy is currently working on designing new measures aimed at reducing the prices of basic food products. The measure to limit the margins is fully respected by the traders, but a large part of the food companies that use subsidized electricity from the state, did...
A family of four in January needed MKD 50,799 for minimum monthly expenses, according to the calculations of the Union of Trade Unions of Macedonia. According to the data on the minimum union consumption basket published today, the most money or MKD 19,206 is spent on food and drinks, and...
Food prices are not decreasing despite all the Government's measures. Citizens react that every time they go to the store, they are faced with more expensive food items. However, the State Statistics Office recorded stabilization of prices in January compared to December and even a decrease of 0.1 percent....
Macedonia ended 2022 with 7.7 billion euros of public debt, which is 57.1 percent of the gross domestic product. It is historically the largest debt, but the borrowing that is planned this year, in accordance with the Budget for 2023, is over 1.6 billion euros, reads the analysis of...