Skopje

Three die of Listeria infection

SKOPJE -- Three persons died in Macedonia during the past month as a consequence of infection with the Listeria bacteria.

Seven cases in all have been registered in the Balkan country in the same period of time.

Serbia, Macedonia recognize driving licenses

BELGRADE -- The interior ministers of Serbia and Macedonia signed an agreement on the mutual recognition of driving licenses between the two governments.

Nebojša Stefanović and Gordana Jankuloska signed the document in Belgrade on Friday.

BELGRADE - The interior ministers of Serbia and Macedonia, Nebojsa Stefanovic and Gordana Jankuloska respectively, signed an agreement on the mutual recognition of driving licenses between the two governments in Belgrade on Friday.

Financial experts have broadly welcomed plans by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to set up tax havens on the ground that they will boost employment in the financial and legal sectors.

The plan took a step towards realisation after parliament on Wednesday gave a green light to a package of constitutional changes that, among other things, allows for the opening of such zones.

Archbishop of Ohrid Jovan remains in prison

SKOPJE -- The Macedonian Appellate Court confirmed the first instance ruling against Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje Jovan Vraniskovski.

He was sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges for embezzlement of EUR 250,000.

SKOPJE - The Macedonian Appellate Court confirmed the fist instance ruling sentencing Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje Jovan Vraniskovski to three years of imprisonment on charges for embezzlement of EUR 250,000.

New data from the Macedonian Civil Aviation Agency, CAA, show that passenger numbers rose by 40 per cent in the last four years at Skopje’s Alexander the Great airport.

Macedonia’s main airport last year nearly broke the million-passenger boundary, after more than 920,000 passengers passed through it.

Two companies, Turkey's Aksoy Energy and CPL Concordia of Italy, have passed the next stage in an important competition for the announced €100 million gasification of Skopje, it was announced.

Macedonia's Transport Ministry is due to select the winning private partner for the energy project in September.

If all goes to plan, construction is expected to start early next year.

Bosniaks marched through the Macedonian capital on Monday from Skopje’s old town, near the Murat Pasha mosque, to the Stone Bridge, one of the city’s biggest landmarks, where participants called for peace and tolerance and said that Srebrenica should never be forgotten.

President to confer with U.S. official Nuland

BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić will meet with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Euroasian Affairs Victoria Nuland.

The meeting will take place on Sunday, the president's press service announced on Friday.