Skopje

Macedonia, Croatia intensify military co-operation

The two countries will conduct expert exchanges, and Croatia will have access to the pilot training centre in Skopje.

Macedonia Defence Minister Zoran Jolevski (left) and Croatian Defence Minister Ante Kotromanovic met in Skopje earlier this month. [Miki Trajkovski/SETimes]

A Bulgarian-Macedonian business forum will take place in Sofia in the spring of 2015.

The two countries discussed Macedonia's European future.

The announcement was made during a meeting between representatives of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Macedonian-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Chamber of Macedonia in Skopje on Tuesday.

SKOPJE - The governments of Macedonia and Serbia held a joint meeting in Skopje on Monday, discussing ways to improve cooperation between the two countries, focusing primarily on the economy, after which they signed seven bilateral agreements on cooperation.

Serbia wants "closest possible" cooperation with Macedonia

SKOPJE -- Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov received on Monday in Skopje Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

According to Vucic, quoted by Tanjug, "it is important for Serbia and Macedonia to discuss joint projects."

Bulgarian and Macedonian police have detained a 41-year-old inmate who was seeking to enter Bulgaria.

In a joint operation, the two police forces prevented him from passing through the border where he had been accompanied by a Bulgarian national, according to the Interior Ministry in Skopje.

The Bulgarian, however, managed to flee.

Over a thousand students on Wednesday occupied the Skopje university faculties of Philosophy, Philology, Law and the Economy, proclaiming them an "autonomous students' territory".

Students demand the immediate suspension of a new Law on Higher Education, which has introduced mandatory externally supervised exams.

Reports: 3 workers dead in factory fire in Macedonia

SKOPJE -- Three workers died on Thursday in a fire that broke out after an explosion in a factory in Bogdanovci, Macedonia, according to media reports.

As the large screens hiding the new look of the refurbished government building in Skopje were taken away in the last days of 2014, passers-by have been struck by its similarity to a very familiar building: the White House in Washington.

Protesters on Sunday night joined hands and made a human chain around a modernist 1970s building in Skopje, threatened with redevelopment.

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Students, university professors and their supporters on Friday besieged the main boulevard in front of the government building in Skopje, calling for an end to plans for state-supervised tests for graduates.

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