Sunday, May 5, 2024
The number of workers receiving the minimum wage has increased to around 100,000 due to non-compliance with laws and collective agreements by unscrupulous employers, the Federation of Trade Unions of Macedonia (SSM) announced Monday. "In 2011, when SSM launched the campaign on May 1 for the need to pass a...
Some of the students were left without a denar granted by the Government, many of the young people under 29 did not receive the announced government assistance due to the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic in the amount of 3,000 denars through their domestic payment card. There are...
Customs officers at the Deve Bair border crossing prevented an attempt to smuggle up to 19,9 million denars' worth of counterfeit clothes, shoes, and purses, the Customs Administration said in a press release. Almost two thousand pieces branded with logos of Louis Vuitton, Dior, Moncler, Gucci, Versace, Burberry, and Michael...
 The effects of this law for Mytilineos are catastrophic for Macedonia, the numbers are shocking and will lead to the financial collapse of the state, university professor AtanaskoTunevskisaid in an interview with TV Telma. “Mytilineos is given state aid of 50 million euros in cash, plus the fact that it...
We are entering an energy crisis. We consume twice as much electricity as we produce. For daily needs, without announcement, we take electricity from the European network. MEPSO has so far received four warnings from the center in Switzerland about this unannounced intrusion into the European network. So far,...
The union of the Public Revenue Officen (PRO) expects to call the mediator to find a solution to their demand for a 30 percent salary increase, which some of the employees of the Ministry of Finance recently received. “The mediator we proposed was immediately accepted by the ministry and we...
The foreign exchange reserves at the end of March of this year amounted to 4.287 billion euros and compared to the previous month, a decrease of 61 million euros was recorded, the National Bank said on Tuesday. Most of the foreign exchange reserves are invested in securities (60.2%), followed by...
If necessary, we will use mechanisms in place to prevent price hikes, said Economy Minister Kreshnik Bekteshi on Tuesday regarding yesterday’s warning by the food processing industry that prices are set to increase sharply. “We are closely monitoring the situation regarding the global supply chain, especially of food products. We...
The stability of the financial system was successfully maintained in 2021 as well, with almost all segments of the financial sector achieving accelerated growth. The banking system, as the main part of the financial system, has maintained its reliability, and by bringing macroprudential measures into the domain of the...
The biggest problem this government is having is that it is constantly borrowing, and at the same time they do not want to look at the costs they are incurring, and see what can be reduced, and there is room for cost reduction. Namely, we have more than 300...