Skopje

Pampulevski, like other apple growers in Debar, exports more than half his crop to Russia, but the Kremlin's war in Ukraine has sent relations with Skopje into a tailspin, and exporters are hurting.

Ljube Pampulevski and his family have been growing apples all his life. Photo: Ljube Pampulevski/private

On the National Telelvision, European MP Andrey Kovachev from EPP/GERB stated that his non-admission to the territory of North Macedonia together with the chairman of the "Bulgarian Memory" foundation Milen Vrabevski and three other Bulgarians, shows that the allegations about the existence of blacklists with European citizens are true.

Bulgaria marks 120 years since the death of the great Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev. His memory will be honored with various events in the country. President Rumen Radev will participate in the celebrations in the town of Gotse Delchev.

The European Union's border agency, Frontex, started deploying guards at North Macedonia's southern border with Greece on Thursday in a joint operation with Skopje to control and prevent illegal migration and cross-border crime.

"Mr Ambassador, please accept these photographs of my father Miltiadis Manaki, which come from my private collection. My father thought of himself as a Greek, and for this reason I offer these photographs for publication in the album dedicated to him."

The President of the Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, stated that in the last two years, he has not had a single constructive conversation with his Bulgarian colleague, Rumen Radev.

After a protest by archaeologists in Skopje on Monday, MPs shelved a controversial legal change that would have bypassed any state decision-making over any archaeological finds along the routes of new highways that are due to be built.

Archaeologists are set to protest in front of parliament in Skopje on Monday over a proposed legal change that would bypass any state decision-making over any archaeological finds made during construction work on a set of highways to be built by the Turkish-US giant Bechtel-ENKA.

As North Macedonia gears up for an important constitutional change, to include Bulgarians in the preamble as a constitutive people and so avoid repeated Bulgarian EU blockades, it has condemned a Bulgarian request to be "included" in the process as "scandalous".

The Ministry of Infrastructure has published an open call for airlines interested in operating flights to three international airports in Slovenia under a scheme that aims to improve air connectivity after a very slow post-Covid recovery.