Thursday, March 28, 2024
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, in the context of the opening of the "Vancho Mihajlov" Cultural Club in Bitola, today explained to the media in Sofia what fascism was, but also that Mihajlov was not a fascist. "If we are talking about fascism, it should be made clear that Ivan Mihajlov...
The process of Europeanization of the Balkans is irrevocable, all countries in the region, including here North Macedonia are now firmly on the pre-accession path, European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas told MIA on the sidelines of the ABNA-SE conference 'The role of news information in the new Balkan...
Diplomat Angela Price Aggeler has been confirmed as the new US ambassador to North Macedonia, the Democratic majority in the Senate tweeted on Friday. Aggeler will replace Kate Mary Byrnes, who has served as the US ambassador to Skopje since 2019. Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing...
The White House wanted to have 10,000 active duty troops on the streets of Washington and other cities earlier this week to quell protesters, but Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint of Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley pushed back at the use of any active duty troops,...
Italian police have arrested two Macedonian nationals, one of them without a residence permit in this country, for illicit drug trafficking. Referring to the Italian police, Top Channel reports that out of the seized 680 kilograms of hashish and marijuana, as much as 600 kilograms were found in a truck...
President Stevo Pendarovski met with Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in Istanbul on Saturday, discussing developments in the Orthodox world, role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in stimulating interreligious dialogue and coexistence among nations and religions. Pendarovski and Bartholomew also referred to the issue of solving the...
The decision for a mandatory negative PCR or rapid test upon arrival Greece, for both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated and those who have recovered from COVID-19, introduced on December 19, 2021, has been extended for another two weeks, until January 24, 2022. The measure applies to all passengers,...
Bulgaria's Liberal MEP, Recovery Ilhan Kyuchyuk is the new rapporteur for Macedonia in the European Parliament. The decision was taken yesterday by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. Kyuchyuk is coming to this post for the next five years in the place of Slovenian Ivo Vajgl. The rapporteur's role in...
The uniqueness of the Macedonian language is recognized worldwide and accepted in the United Nations, Matthew Nimetz, former personal envoy of the UN Secretary-General on the name issue, said in an interview with Kanal 5 TV. When asked about the Sofia-Skopje relations, and that the identity and language were not...
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, has died from the consequences of coronavirus infection. Patriarch Irinej died shortly after 7am on Friday at the Army Medical Centre in Belgrade where he was admitted on November 4 after testing positive for the novel virus. He was 90. On...