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Macedonias overdue date for starting EU accession talks will be discussed when European foreign ministers meet next week, but Skopje fears new Greek and Bulgarian objections.Europes foreign ministers are due to decide at their session on Tuesday whether to ask EU chiefs to... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you already ... (more)

Cornerstone laying ceremony marked Saturday the start of the construction of "Bogdanci" wind park.

With the conflicts that dominated life in the Balkans for years now in the past, academics, analysts and political leaders said the time has come to establish dialogue and co-operation to help citizens overcome the prejudices and stereotypes that have divided the region.

Macedonian high school graduates dance during the 13th Quadrille Dance Parade at the main square in Skopje, the capital of The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia yesterday.

A new European statistical report saying that more than ten per cent of FYR Macedonians have left their country in little more than a decade has stirred up a debate on emigration.In a new report on migration, the European statistics agency EUROSTAT said that from 1998 to 2011, some... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you ... (more)

Macedonia Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said he is disappointed that members of the Islamic Religious Community chose to boycott a world religious conference in Skopje in protest of what they termed "marginalisation" of Muslims in Macedonia.

A report labeled "FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA REVIEW OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT" released by the European Union shows that the FYR Macedonia faces challenges in the field of employment.

An intrepid cat was caught by his owners opening not one, not two, but FIVE closed doors to get outside.

Plus, Macedonia's attempt to extradite two mass-murder suspects from Kosovo is complicated, and Latvia eases up on some non-citizens. Bulgaria's center-right Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria party won a plurality of votes in the country's 12 May elections, but party leader and former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov faces an uphill ... (more)

The recent arrest of five people in a joint police action targeting a money laundering ring shows the power of a co-ordinated fight against organised crime, analysts said.

Some 65 history, English, literature and ethics teachers from countries of the former Yugoslavia attended a seminar for Holocaust educators at the Holocaust Museum in Skopje, Macedonia.

Macedonian police struck a blow against organised crime and corruption with a recent operation that resulted in the arrests of 19 people on charges of theft and illegal trading of religious and historical artifacts.

Wizz Air inaugurated Skopje as the second south-eastern European destination it offers from Stockholm Skavsta .

Ohrid police spokesman Stefan Dimoski said Thursday that a janitor at a campground raised the alarm, saying the Hungarians had not returned from the lake on Wednesday.

The low cost Wizz Air has inaugurated a new direct Skopje FYR Macedonia-Stockholm flight.

The EU ambassador, Aivo Orav, has urged Macedonia to hurry up with forming a commission of inquiry into the events in parliament on December 24, which triggered a prolonged political crisis.

Human Rights activists have condemned a leading Macedonian Orthodox bishop for blaming the increased divorce rate on women trying to be equal to men.

Bulgaria and Macedonia share a common past and should forge close neighborly ties, stressed Bulgarian caretaker PM and Foreign Affairs Minister Marin Raykov in a statement Tuesday.

DNEVNIK Four candidates have so far oficialized their candidacy for the next head of the main opposition party, the Social Democrats, SDSM.

This image provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Bulgarian policemen overseeing the deportation in Skopje, Yugoslavia, of Macedonian Jews to the German death camps in March 1943 in Bulgarian occupied Skopje.