Saturday, May 4, 2024
The African swine fever situation is becoming more dramatic. From day to day, the disease is galloping in the interior of the country, threatening the hundreds of millions of euros invested in the pig sector, noted Cvetan Tripunovski, chair of the VMRO-DPMNE Commission for Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management. "Due...
In November, an inflation rate of 19.5% was measured in Macedonia, which is the highest inflation rate in the region and one of the highest in all of Europe. This shows that the cost of living in Macedonia is growing the most, and the standard of citizens is decreasing...
Under the revised budget, adopted by the government at Thursday’s session, total expenditures stand at EUR 3.95 billion and it is increased by 1.4 percent compared to the original 2020 budget, Finance Minister Nina Angelovska said at today’s press conference. According to the amendments to Macedonia’s 2020 budget, revenues are...
The Government, at the proposal of the Ministry of Economy, did not adopt a Decision on determining the highest trade margins on the selling prices of basic food products in the wholesale and retail trade, which will be valid from March 1 to May 31, 2022. The decision determines the...
Ahmeti and Kovachevski invented a new tax, which, beware, they called “solidarity”, and which in reality collects a double tax, from those companies that regularly pay their taxes and are loyal to their state, said VMRO-DPMNE on Sunday. “Instead of the Government fighting against the gray economy, which is flourishing...
Slovenian starter battery plant TAB MAK is discussing new investment plans worth €30 million in expanding manufacturing capacity. Company’s management team said that TAB MAK employs 530 people who continued to work even during the pandemic, with governmental financial assistance measures. The new investment will create jobs not only in...
The average paid net salary per employee, in August 2022, amounted to 31,871 denars and is 11.3 percent higher than the same month last year, according to the State Statistics Office. The increase is due, above all, to the increase in the average salary in the following sectors: Manufacturing industry...
Between 1996 and2022, independent Macedonia did not have double-digit inflation. The first years after independence were shocking in terms of price growth. Thus, in 1993 there was an average annual inflation of 349.8%, in 1995 the average was 121.8%, in 1995 it was 15.9%, and from 1996 it "sailed"...
  We are implementing series of measures to tackle informal economy in the country and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has welcomed these efforts, says Finance Minister Nina Angelovska. “The measures to tackle the informal economy target the labor market and the fiscalization process. There are active employment measures in place,...
The fifth set of anti-crisis measures to focus on the liquidity of companies to survive the coronary pandemic, to open partially closed sectors such as tourism and to adopt protocols according to the WHO for their smooth operation, wage subsidies of 14,500 denars to continue at least 2021, to...