Handball: Vardar wins versus Kristianstad
European champion Vardar continued the series of good games in the Champions League and registered a new win, this time in Sweden beat Kristianstad with 23-26 (10-15). Vardar allowed the home team to take advantage of the first few minutes of the match when they were leading 5-3, so then to take the lead in their hands and make a turn and get an advantage of 6-7, which by the end of the first part increased to 10-15. In the second part, Vardar kept the result under control by having a 4-5 goal advantage, and at one point the advan…
Doing Business 2018: Macedonia continues to be among top ranked economies
Macedonia is ranked 11th in the latest edition of the annual World Bank Group’s “Doing Business” report, being the best-ranked economy alongside Georgia (9th) and Lithuania (16th) in the region of Europe and Central Asia. The report says that Georgia has implemented the most reforms in the past 15 years, totaling 47, followed by Kazakhstan and Macedonia with 41 each. “Despite a prolonged political crisis, Macedonia remains one of the top ranked economies, in terms of ease of doing business,” said Marco Mantovanelli, Country Manage…
Kathimerini: FM Kotzias wants to see name dispute settled in 2018
Greece's Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias wants to settle the name dispute with Macedonia in the first half of 2018, but his hopes might prove to be too ambitious, Kathimerini comments. Laying out the intentions of the Greek government to solve the row, Kotzias said name negotiations should be completed by mid-2018. “If it’s not, there will be major difficulties. If it gets resolved, it will then be a matter of three to four months of bureaucracy at the United Nations," he stated. According to him, the process sh…
Macedonia's Dumb and Dumber to fight corruption by removing Anti-Corruption office
Macedonia's dumb (Dragan Tevdovski) and dumber (Zoran Zaev) vowed a relentless fight against corruption as their own appointed prosecutor has launched a corruption probe against two Government officials for corruption. Zaev himself is in Court for requesting 200,000 euros in bribes on camera from a Strumica businessman. But the corruption probe for the dumb and dumber duo is just a minor hiccup since on Friday evening, the Government announced it will remove the Anti-Corruption body whose sole existence was to prevent corrupti…
Kumanovo Case: Seven sentenced to life imprisonment, 26 get lengthy prison sentences
Seven life sentences, 13 defendants sentenced to 40 years behind bars, 6 men got 20-year sentences, one defendant will spend 18 years behind bars, two defendants 14 years, 13 years in prison is the sentence for two men, 12 years for two others with four defendants acquired. This is included in the verdict of a court in Skopje for defendants involved in the events in the Kumanovo settlement of Diva Naselba in 2015. Tensions flared at Thursday's hearing at the Criminal Court. The accused terrorists got up before the verdicts were an…
Macedonia: Number of employees in industry in September increased by 3.3 Percent
According to the State Statistical Office data, the index of the number of employees in industry in September 2017, in comparison with September 2016, was 3.3%. The number of employees in industry in the section Mining and quarrying in September 2017, in comparison with September 2016, decreased by 0.5%, in the section Manufacturing it increased by 3.8%, while in the section Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply it decreased by 1.2%. The number of employees in industry by Main Industrial Groupings in September 2017, …
OSCE admits Macedonian Elections were fraudulent
Macedonia’s elections were marred by massive electoral fraud which included, but not limited to: ballot stuffing, bribery, ballots from one city found their way into the ballot boxes of another city, police intimidating voters, police preventing voters from voting, fraudulent reporting of results etc. OSCE, despite their well known political biasness towards the Macedonian marionette Government, it appears have gained enough courage and wrote in their report that Macedonia’s elections were marred by fraud, and lots of it. However, it …
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