The Macedonian national football team will start the game cycle for the new edition of the Nations League for the 2022/2023 season at the beginning of June. Our A-Team, led by Blagoja Milevski, is in Group C where they will face the national teams of Bulgaria, Georgia and Gibraltar. Macedonia will play their first game on June 2 on the away field against the national team of Bulgaria. It will be the first competitive game between the two neighboring countries. The match was scheduled at the Huvepharma Arena in Razgrad. This was recently offic…
Exactly 4922 Macedonian citizens applied for asylum in one of the EU countries last year, which is a significant increase compared to 2020, when the number was 1230 asylum applications. Most of them tried to find refuge in Germany. The data provided by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) shows a general upward trend in the numbers of asylum seekers as before the pandemic, but Macedonia is highlighted as one of the countries with a drastic increase in numbers. While there were 1230 asylum seekers in European countries in 2020, the num…
Today the Macedonian handball team is leaving for Debrecen (Hungary), where they will take part in the European Handball Championship 2022. Shortly before leaving, there was the first bad news for Team Macedonia. So far, they have been spared, but now the pandemic has hit the team. The coronavirus occurred in our camp at the last moment in five people, which had an impact on the squad selection of coach Kiril Lazarov. The goalkeepers suffered from the positive tests by Nikola Mitrevski and Marko Kizic, so a solution had to be found and Gradim…
The serious traffic accident in which a bus with Macedonian license plates caught fire occurred during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday on the Struma motorway in Bulgaria. Among the dead are 12 children, seven people survived the accident. 45 people, citizens of Macedonia, died when a passenger bus with Macedonian license plates caught fire on the Struma motorway, reports Bulgarian television NOVA. The tragic incident occurred near the village of Bosnek at 2 a.m. on Tuesday evening. The fire broke out after the vehicle hit the protective …
Shortly before a vote of no confidence in his government (Thursday), the Macedonian Prime Minister and head of the Association of Social Democrats SDSM, Zoran Zaev, postponed the resignation he had announced. The SDSM party leadership decided yesterday evening, media reported in Skopje. Members of the party leadership had unanimously decided that Zaev should remain in his offices “until the processes in the country normalize”. Zaev himself confirmed the information, saying that he wanted to help maintain the parliamentary majority and, if poss…
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced his resignation as prime minister and head of his party late Sunday following the heavy defeat of his governing Social Democratic Union in Macedonia's local elections. "The responsibility for this outcome is mine and I'm resigning as prime minister and as leader of the Social Democratic Union," Zaev said at a news conference at party headquarters. Although official results were not yet in from the local elections, Zaev conceded defeat in the most important contest — the mayor's race in…
Late on Sunday evening, the leaders of the two largest political parties on the Macedonian political scene declared victory in the local elections. While waiting for the official and final results of the state electoral commission, both VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM declared victory in the first round in a number of municipalities, but also a head start for the second round of elections, which will take place in two weeks (October 31). - SDSM and the coalition won in the first round or have a serious lead over VMRO-DPMNE in more than 30 municipalities …
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