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The Prime Ministers of Macedonia and Greece are reported to have 10 days in order to resolve the name dispute between the two countries. According to Macedonian TV channel A1, which cites diplomatic sources, the EU is expecting that Gruevski and Papandreu will resolve the dispute in the coming days so that on December 7 Macedonia could receive a date for starting its EU accession negotiations. On Friday,...
The Macedonian parliament and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) signed on Friday an agreement on long-term cooperation to protect the rights of children. Parliament speaker Trajko Veljanoski and UNICEF representative Sheldon Yett signed the document on the day when the world is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. "The parliament is strengthening...
Bulgaria President Georgi Parvanov has stated that Bulgaria's support for Macedonia joining the EU is not unconditional after speaking to Macedonia's President, Gjorge Ivanov, Parvanov held a telephone conversation with Ivanov on Friday, at the initiative of the Macedonian side, the President's press office reported. Ivanov stated that he was grateful for Bulgaria's consistent position in support of...
Filip Stojanovski is a Global Voices author and translator based in Skopje, Macedonia. He is the Program Coordinator of Metamorphosis, a think tank which seeks the development of democracy and prosperity by promoting knowledge-based economy and information society.
Skopje - Macedonia on Wednesday reported its first swine flu death - a 32-year-old man who died in Skopje hospital according to local media. The man was hospitalized earlier this week with a serious case of pneumonia. ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov declared that Bulgaria and Macedonia are not only neighbors but brother peoples, who have to help and support each other. “We have categorically supported the removal of visas for Macedonian citizens. Skopje will also get our support for the Euro-Atlantic community,” declared Borisov. ...
The European Parliament has adopted an amendment to Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement. The amendment will allow citizens of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia to travel freely to and from the European [...]
Macedonia urged Greece not to block its European Union (EU) entry talks, if the southern neighbor wishes to settle their ongoing name dispute, local media reported Thursday. Macedonia in October gained permission from the European Commission for its EU accession talks. But Greece threatened to thwart the efforts if there was no significant breakthrough over the name dispute. "We have been doing...
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution, which recommends the lifting of the visa regimes for citizens of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro on December 19 this year instead of January 1, 2010, as proposed by the European Commission. During the debates, which started late on Wednesday, the MEPs expressed their support for removing the visa barriers for the three countries, a step, which has...
Traffic on the southwest Bulgaria-Macedonia road between the city of Kyustendil and the Gyueshevo crossing point has begun to move again at 18:15 on Tuesday. The roads had been completely blocked earlier in the day, as the swollen Bistritsa river had damaged two road bridges. Emergency repair work has been completed....
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, said Friday the recent statement his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski had been misunderstood. Borisov said this in Brussels, as quoted by Darik Radio, regarding a statement Nikola Gruevski made recently in Australia, which Bulgarian President Parvanov interpreted as raising territorial claims towards Bulgaria. “Mr....
Macedonian Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, has stated that his country had no territorial claims towards Bulgaria or any other state. Gruevski’s denial comes in response to Thursday’s statements of Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov who interpreted words Gruevski said before Macedonian immigrants in Australia as territorial claims towards Bulgaria. ...
Bulgaria's President, Georgi Parvanov, has declared during his Australia visit that a recent statement of Macedonian Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, was "unacceptable". During a news conference in Sydney, Parvanov referred to the words of Gruevski who recently visited Australia as well. Gruevski’s words were that the Macedonians in Australia had a unique opportunity that they did not...
Macedonia's breakup is inevitable because it has gone bankrupt, has no political will to find the right place for its Albanian minority, and has capitulated before it. This is the opinion of Modest Kolerov, Director of the Moscow information agency Regnum, and a former head of the Department for Inter-regional and Cultural Relations of the Russian Federation, as cited by Darik Radio. Kolerov has said...