Thursday, March 28, 2024
The draft law on wages in the public sector is discriminatory and unconstitutional. Not only does it limit the participation of trade unions in the decision-making of the Government, it also eliminates the possibility of arranging wages and benefits with collective agreements, react from the Trade Union for Education,...
The leader of opposition party VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski, asked to comment about the fact that SDSM says that there are surpluses of electricity and that instead of losses, positive results are recorded in the energy sector, Mickoski stressed that out of 230 million euros spent by ELEM last year,...
The construction of the new natural gas power plant in Alexandroupolis, a key project for the energy security of Greece and the wider Balkan region, was officially announced today. The Alexandropolis power plant is being built by the Greek Joint Venture which consists of the three main energy groups in...
The World Bank has new expectations that Macedonia’s gross domestic product (GDP) will increase by 2.4 percent in 2023. That is 0.7 percentage points below the estimate the Bank made in June last year. In the global outlook report, Macedonia's economy is estimated to grow by 2.1 percent in 2022....
The price of electricity for small consumers and for 99.2% of households will decrease, said the director of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Marko Bislimovski, and added that, however, the VAT will increase from 5% to 10% starting January 1. "When we made the decisions, we took into account the...
Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister FatmirBytyqi informed on Wednesday that the funds collected from the extra profit tax, which would be introduced once, only for 2022, will be used to deal with the crisis. “We don't get this money for anything. We will use them to deal with the crisis. At...
The three energy companies submitted their requests to Energy and Water Services Regulatory Commission of the Republic of N. Macedonia (ERC) for the price of electricity on the regulated market, starting January 1, 2023. MEPSO is demanding a 29.75 percent increase in the electricity transmission price, EVN Elektrodistribucija is demanding...
There were 5,985 companies with zero employees In Macedonia in 2021, or there is no statistical data on employees for them, according to the State Statistics Office (SSO). This is 8.2 percent of active business entities (72,922), reports Pari.com.mk. Experts explain that in the country there are companies without employees...
The Macedonian Minister of Finance Fatmir Besimi confirmed during Sunday’s inteview with RFE/RL that there will be a one-time extraordinary taxation of large companies. The tax on extra profit, following the example of several other countries that introduced it in the crisis, will be collected when the calculations for...
According to the President of the Regulatory Energy Commission (REC) Marko Bislimoski, the agreement of Monday of the energy ministers of the EU member states on the introduction of the highest price for natural gas is also positive for our domestic circumstances. Bislimoski told the media that the long-awaited agreement...