Cornerstone laying ceremony of the new initial investment worth €18 million for the construction of manufacturing site in the Skopje Free Trade Zone 2 of the US company DURA Automotive Systems was held Monday. The company anticipates a summer 2019 launch for the modern 16,000 m2 facility. The new site will employ approximately 500 employees …
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Prime Minister Zoran Zaev expects the process over the referendum date, question and its character to be completed by the weekend. “We expect to define these issues with political leaders, representatives of parliamentary political parties by the end of the week. We should define them because time is getting tighter up to September 23 or …
It is obvious that the name agreement will pass in the Greek parliament, otherwise we would not have signed it, says government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos. In an interview with Greek radio Real FM, Tzanakopoulos explains that the government wants a larger majority “for this important agreement, which closes a 25-year-long issue in the best possible …
The last, most difficult stage of the Europeanization of Macedonia began with singing and crying, with joy and sorrow. At the celebration for the NATO invitation, Macedonia grieved and rejoiced, some sang and laughed with tears of joy, some cried crocodile tears over the fate of Macedonia and cursed the traitors who sold the name, …
The agreement reached between Skopje and Athens shows that persistent negotiations and diplomacy work, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in the interview with the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, noting that Austria supports EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. “We warmly welcome the agreement between the two sides. It shows that persistent negotiations and diplomacy work. For …
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EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn will arrive to Skopje tomorrow. This visit will also mark the start of the screening process, which is expected to accompany the beginning of EU accession talks. According to the agenda, tomorrow morning, Hahn will hold a meeting with PM Zoran Zaev, after which he will meet with parliamentary speaker, …
We, the leftists, the democrats and the progressive citizens, support the agreement, because we oppose nationalism and revisionism and we are committed to a peaceful European, Balkan neighborhood, as the agreement surpasses nationalist and religious tensions, reads the text in support of Prespa agreement signed by over 320 Greek intellectuals including university professors, journalists, writers. …
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The Prespa name agreement is very important and positive both for Greece and for FYROM. Once it is finalized, we can implement in practice some very good and positive ideas for cooperation between the two countries in terms of new technologies, says Nikos Pappas, Greek Minister of Digital Policy, Media and Telecommunications. According to him, …
Brussels – NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Eilene Gottemoeller expects that today all the leaders of the NATO member states to agree on the membership invitation for Macedonia and soon start accession negotiations with our country. In an interview with Nezavisen/Independent newspaper, Gottemoeller said that NATO had already prepared the negotiating documents and that if …
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Blue hat with a star and red scarf around the neck, symbols of the youngest in a former country that no longer exists. The youth were divided according to age and achievements in that former state and grew up healthy and step by step under the watchful eye of their parents, neighbors, teachers, society. From …
Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, will decide today with whom he will pose for a picture – whether with Panos Kammenos, the Greek Defense Minister and the leader of the Independent Greeks, coalition partner in the government of Alexis Tsipras on one side, and with Gjorge Ivanov, the president of the state, on the …
I’ve been traveling a lot out of the country in the past ten days. Often for a longer period of time. And every time I went back, even though I’m a sociologist, I was amazed at the speed at which the changes took place. Not so much from the material aspects of the changed appearance …
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This week, your country was invited to begin accession talks to become the 30th member of the NATO Alliance. This is a big step towards a bright future and opens the door for greater prosperity and security for you and for the wider Western Balkans. Time and again, you have shown courage to forge your …
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In a day or two, or maybe a week, no one will write to the parents of Nikola Sazdovski and ask them how they are, whether they need anything, offer to help them in any way, wipe their tears, and hear their woes. Left on their own, they will curse their misfortune, they will grieve …
The Macedonian Parliament is preparing for the procedures that follow before the country’s NATO membership. The Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security will propose a dein Parliament on supporting the accession process for Macedonia’s NATO membership. “We expect that this declaration will be adopted at the session of the Assembly next Tuesday, July 17th,” said …
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday at an official ceremony handed over to Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev the invitation for launching negotiations with NATO after it was approved by the NATO allies at yesterday’s summit in Brussels. “This has been a crucial breakthrough, which has opened the path to become a full member …
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British Prime Minister Theresa May highlighted the historic agreement between Macedonia and Greece congratulating Prime Ministers Zaev and Tsipras as an extremely successful story of the last two EU-Western Balkans summits, stressing that progress is possible. May at the London Summit announced the doubling of financial support for public administration projects in Macedonia, as well …
Jelko Kacin, Slovenia’s Ambassador to NATO, says accession to the Alliance depends solely on Macedonian citizens. “You need to meet the conditions. As soon as this is completed, we expect a positive signal from Athens. If we hadn’t received a positive message from Athens, the Secretary-General would not have signed the document for the accession talks,” …
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Returning the concept of a transitional government that was agreed in Przino – at the height of the political crisis of the state. This is basically one of the demands set by the opposition as a condition for unblocking the election of the new composition of the SEC, in addition to the amendments to the …
Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska and Defence Ministers of 17 Allies and Finland as NATO partner country signed Thursday in Brussels during the NATO Summit a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Multinational Cooperation for the Provision of Land Battle Decisive Munitions (LBDM) with which Macedonia joins Smart Defence Initiative. Under the leadership of Belgium, MOU was …
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