Macedonia News

Heavy snowfall continued over the weekend in the Balkans, claiming more victims, blocking traffic and exacerbating problems in areas already cut off by the extremely cold weather.

Macedonia's PM Nikola Gruevski and ministers of health and education - Nikola Todorov and Pance Kralev - put into service on Sunday two new laboratories at the Institute of Occupational Health in Skopje.The goal of the labs is to improve conditions for toxicological and... Macedonia's PM Nikola Gruevski and ministers of health and education - ... (more)

One of the region's Euro MPs has revealed how he feared he was going to die when the plane he was on was forced to make an emergency landing in Macedonia.

Abstract In this paper we argue that power-sharing mechanisms introduced in Macedonia have gone a long way towards guaranteeing the better representation and participation in Macedonian society of the Albanian community through the institutionalisation of a model of inter-ethnic power-sharing. Nevertheless, since they are the product of violence, ... (more)

DNEVNIK The daily looks at the recent relations between United Kingdom and Macedonia.

GV Author Filip Stojanovski posts pictures of Skopje's snowy and icy streets and reports on his blog: "[] the pavements and the side streets in the municipality of Centar remain icy.

The ultra-nationalist World Macedonian Congress has demanded that FYROM 's former Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski be sued for treason since he has a Bulgarian citizenship.

The United Nations mediator in the "name" dispute between Macedonia and Greece, Matthew Nimetz, is to visit both countries this month to examine their commitment to solving the long-standing issue.

Once a city quarter becomes majority-Albanian, it is quickly emptied of its Slavic, non-Muslim population.

The city-owned "Skopje Breathing" online system, which informed residents of air pollution levels, stopped functioning in early January 2011.

In this photo Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 photo people stand next to a natural ice sculpture that was formed after the wind blew waves over the boardwalk of Lake Geneva at the Port of Choiseul in Versoix near Geneva, Switzerland.

The newspaper investigates rumors that the Albanians in Macedonia might soon form a new political party that will oppose the existing ones at the local elections in early 2013.

Macedonia is going ahead with two major infrastructure projects this year despite European ecologist groups' warnings that construction could devastate local species.

Judge Peter Tomka [official profile] of Slovakia will serve as president. Tomka, who has been vice president of the ICJ since 2009, has also worked for the Slovakian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has held several UN positions, including being a member of the UN International Law Commission [official websites]. Judge Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor ... (more)

Sweden has ended up on the first place on the European Commission's ranking of the EU-countries when it comes to innovation in 2011.

The FYR Macedonia's Civil Aviation Agency has confirmed that Turkish Airlines has been given the status of a "regular carrier", thus granting it numerous privileges over other airlines operating to the country.

After the government on Friday said it had chosen a baroque facade for its HQ, architect Petar Mulickovski said he had turned down an invitation to be an advisor to the project.

Greece is being "irrational" in opposing Macedonia's bid to join NATO because it objects to the country's name, the Balkan nation's foreign minister says.

Environmental activists in Skopje are urging the city to put back on line a web page allowed people to check air pollution levels in the capital.

Dutch dairy cooperative FrieslandCampina has signed a memorandum of understanding with a UK-based venture capital firm to acquire Serbian dairy producers Imlek and Mlekara Subotica, and sees great potential to grow sales in the region.