Voters in North Macedonia head to the polls on Wednesday for the first round of presidential elections, in a test vote that could define the country’s EU perspective.
Voters in North Macedonia head to the polls on Wednesday for the first round of presidential elections, in a test vote that could define the country’s EU perspective.
Voters go to the polls in North Macedonia this week for the first round of the presidential election — the seventh such vote since the small landlocked Balkan country gained independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.
The leader of the main opposition party in North Macedonia has said that if elected prime minister, he would refer to the country solely as “Macedonia,” regardless of the 2018 Prespes Agreement that settled the dispute with Greece over the country’s name.
A Danish skier was injured in a bear attack at a nature park in North Macedonia Tuesday, in an area where authorities say mild winters have led to a surge in the brown bear population.
North Macedonia ‘s parliament speaker on Wednesday formally set early parliamentary and presidential elections in the spring as the country makes a bid to join the European Union.
North Macedonia’s parliament on Sunday approved a caretaker government with a mandate to organize a general election in May.
Leaders of the six Western Balkan countries, including Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, met on Monday in Skopje, North Macedonia to discuss reforms needed to access the European Union growth plan presented last October.
The famous angels of Kurbinovo, a small village on the shore of the Great Prespa Lake in North Macedonia, have got their colorful robes, expressive faces and fluttering wings back, after the wear and tear of time had dulled the luster of what is regarded as one of the greatest murals of the Komnenian era (AD 1081-1204).
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union announced on Tuesday a 560 million euro ($613.87 million) financing package for North Macedonia to build a railway line to neighboring Bulgaria.
The way is now paved for the reopening of the Thessaloniki-North Macedonia oil pipeline, after an entire decade of inactivity, the managing director of Helleniq Energy, Andreas Shiamishis, has revealed to Kathimerini.
Former prime minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras was scheduled to make a private visit to the residence of Zoran Zaev, the former prime minister of North Macedonia, in Strumica, in response to Zaev’s invitation.
The Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator (DESFA) will supervise the construction of the natural gas interconnector linking Greece with North Macedonia, including the section in the neighboring country, following a government agreement signed in March 2021.
Last Saturday, on the shores of Mikri (Little) Prespa Lake, situated on Greece’s northwestern border with Albania, a multitude of people celebrated well into the early hours of the morning.
A senior US State Department official on Friday voiced hope that North Macedonia will be able to approve politically difficult constitutional changes that would help its bid to join the European Union.
The largest party representing North Macedonia’s ethnic Albanian minority offered to pull its ministers from the government to meet a demand from the opposition to clear the way for European Union membership talks.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with his North Macedonia counterpart Dimitar Kovachevski on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius on Wednesday.