North Macedonia

Atanasov, who is 33, had spent two and a half years working for a foreign oil and gas company, a job that saw him spending more time in Africa than at home. When a friend died of malaria, he decided enough was enough.

The President of the Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, described as "scandalous" the request of Bulgaria to participate in the process of preparing the constitutional changes in the southwestern Balkan country.

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".

VERONA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday a deal on an Open Balkan single labour and economic market was the most important agreement reached with the PMs of Albania and North Macedonia, Edi Rama and Dimitar Kovacevski, during his visit to Verona.

Serbia and North Macedonia signed a memorandum of collaboration on Friday for the construction of a natural gas pipeline that will link the two countries and relate to another pipeline between Greece and North Macedonia.

Signing the memorandum in Belgrade were the prime ministers of North Macedonia Dimitar Kovacevski and of Ana Brnabic.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Friday that, after the completion of a gas pipeline to Bulgaria in October, Serbia would focus on building a gas pipeline to North Macedonia as well in order to connect with Greece and LNG terminals there.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Friday economic and political relations between Serbia and North Macedonia were steadily improving, especially as a result of the Open Balkan initiative.

BELGRADE - The governments of Serbia and North Macedonia signed on Friday in Belgrade three MoUs that will advance bilateral cooperation.

The documents were signed at a ceremony also attended by Serbian and North Macedonian PMs Ana Brnabic and Dimitar Kovacevski.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with North Macedonian PM Dimitar Kovacevski in Belgrade on Friday.

The two officials agreed that the relations between their countries were the best in modern history.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with North Macedonian PM Dimitar Kovacevski in Belgrade on Friday.

"We agreed that the relations between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of North Macedonia are the best in modern history. We will continue to work together for the well-being of our peoples," Vucic wrote in a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram profile.