Monday, September 16, 2024
Macedonian Minister of Finance FatmirBesimi said on Thursday that there was no money in the Budget for increasing officials' wages in 2024. In response to reporters' questions at Thursday's press conference, Besimi noted that it was not in the Budget to increase the wages of elected and appointed officials in...
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 2.3 percent in the second quarter (Q4) of 2024, said the State Statistics Office (SSO) on Wednesday. In the second quarter of 2024, a greater increase was observed in the following sectors: Art, entertainment and recreation; Other service activities; Activities of households as...
The foreign exchange reserves at the end of February of this year amounted to 3,900.4 million euros and compared to the previous month, they recorded an increase of 124.9 million euros, the National Bank informed on Monday. Most of the foreign exchange reserves are invested in securities (79.6%), followed by...
The country must adapt to the new situation, we have already entered stagflation, it is a state of stagnation of the economy and inflation. The government should have foreseen the increase of prices, as before, the commodity reserves should have been replenished and put into use in order to...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) made decisions by which the final price for the delivered thermal energy to consumers supplied by ESM, from the requested price increase of over 50%, approved 4.51%. On an average account of MKD 1800, the increase is MKD 80. “The price for the citizens remains...
Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire and founder of the AliBaba Group last weekend, in addition to visiting Belgrade and Sarajevo, also visited Skopje. The man who created a business empire from scratch and was rejected several times to enroll in college was in the Balkans at the weekend, and...
The executive director of the Bulgarian state-owned company Bulgargransgaz Vladimir Malinov told BNT that although Russia had cut off natural gas supplies to Bulgaria, they would not stop the transit of Russian gas to Macedonia, Greece and Serbia. According to Malinov, Bulgaria has already started negotiations with Turkey to provide...
In the last two and a half years, state institutions have procured a total of 392 new passenger vehicles for which they spent 8.1 million euros, according to research data and a database released today by the Center for Civil Communications (CCC). “A quarter of the purchased new vehicles are...
The concept that the government is proposing as a tax reform is nothing but a new burden for citizens and business to cover the crime, corruption and mismanagement of the SDS and DUI government, says opposition VMRO-DPMNE. The largest opposition party points out that it is not actually a tax...
The Union of Trade Unions of Macedonia (SSM) has argued for the past period that the living costs of the Macedonian worker and citizen is becoming too expensive and that more and more workers are working, but are poor and cannot afford even the basic food products to feed...