Ethnic groups in Greece

The Governor of a region in northern Greece is demanding that state of emergency be declared in the area around the Idomeni border crossing.

At least 13 000 people are stranded on the border between Macedonia and Greece, as Macedonian authorities are applying restrictions to the flow of migrants for several weeks, local and international media quoted him as saying.

The southwestern town of Petrich marked Bulgaria's national holiday on Thursday with a procession on the occasion of the 138thanniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.

The procession was the first of its kind and was organised under the initiative of the youth formation of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (VMRO).

Amid a drama in the Idomeni refugee camp on the Greece-Macedonia border, the media in Macedonia are reporting on EC President Jean Claude Juncker's "gaffe."

It concerns Juncker "angering the Greeks by using the constitutional name of Macedonia" during a press conference.

Hundreds of refugees on Feb. 29 tried to break through a border fence into Macedonia from Greece, where more than 7,000 people are stranded, as anger mounts over barriers to entry imposed on migrants flooding into Europe.

Some 20 Macedonians who want to formalize their sex changes by obtaining new IDs, face long administrative obstacles and rejection by institutions who pronounce themselves incompetent to deal with the issue.

New migration guidelines agreed to by Balkan interior ministers in Zagreb on Thursday resulted in a dramatic drop in the number of migrants crossing the southern Macedonian border over the weekend.

Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian and Austrian police chiefs have reached an agreement on joint registration of refugees on the Greek-Macedonian border.

The five countries agreed on Thursday to jointly organize the transport of refugees to Austria, allowing passage along the "Balkan route" only to refugees from war-torn countries.

Analysis of data released by the EU statistics body Eurostat shows that in four years, from the start of 2010 to the end of 2013, 58,713 Macedonian citizens obtained permission to stay in or become citizens of EU countries.

The number is more than equivalent to the population of the fifth largest town in Macedonia, Tetovo.

Many Macedonians in possession of Bulgarian passports are facing fines for having voted in the 2014 European Parliament elections.

The Macedonians holding dual citizenship voted in Bulgarian diplomatic missions in Macedonia, including at the Bulgarian embassy in Skopje, without being eligible to do so.

Three citizens of Serbia have been arrested in Macedonia in connection with the murder of a 27-year-old Macedonian citizen on Ohrid.

Among them is a man from Kraljevo who is suspected of committing the murder.