Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Ambulances without drivers, a food bill above the minimum wage, Lajka and the Serbian election: the week in which everything bought was still waiting for someone to switch it on

The ambulance service got vehicles with no one to drive them, Skopje's public transport company has buses that don't run,...

5 days ago Read more →

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Mihailova, Saraj, shrinking flats, an EU without Macedonia and the oncology clinic: the week every question ended up at someone else's address

A defendant with confiscated passports made it to Sofia, the Saraj police report stayed under lock, the average new flat...

12 days ago Read more →

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Spatial plan, Bitola, Dojran and Ohrid, plague in Irkutsk: the announcements arrived, the answers are waiting for a report

Every announcement this week came with a date and a photo op. What was missing was the last line: how...

19 days ago Read more →

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Prilep's drug network, EU roadmaps without Macedonia, a budget rebalance for 100-denar diesel and the Kičevo hospital: the long wait got press releases

A network "untouchable" for more than 15 years, a hospital under construction since the eighties, accession talks Skopje and Tirana...

26 days ago Read more →

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Interior Ministry, customs and the food agency, diesel at 104.50 denars, Mickoski in New York, Vučić at the UN and the Strumica mines: the statements and the numbers underneath

The state announces inspections, and an inspector gets detained. Oil falls, diesel climbs. A week in which almost every official...

27 September 2026 Read more →

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The Vodno cable car, the power-company audit, the Thaci verdict and the Barutana plan: a week when every institution had its own version

Two inspections of the same cable car with opposite findings, a climate plan contradicting its own urban plan, and a...

21 September 2026 Read more →

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Bribes at the Inspectorate and Customs, driving licences without exams, the Laskarci verdict quashed and 34 fires in a single day

A week in which oversight had a price, the celebration cost nothing from the Budget, and deadlines expired faster for...

14 September 2026 Read more →

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Fires, vehicle inspections, empty desks and the city train: the week the data existed and nobody opened it

The motive behind the fires was said out loud, the payments were logged, the births were counted, the sleepers had...

07 September 2026 Read more →

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West Nile, fires, data centres and honours for Mladic: the week the response kept arriving after the damage

The map of which municipalities never sprayed came out after the epidemic, spraying in Resen began only after the raven...

01 September 2026 Read more →

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West Nile, Tabanovce, the fires and a closed modular hospitals case: the week Macedonia measured activity instead of results

Thirteen sprayings and four dead, technical solutions drawn up but never built, and five years of investigation without a single...

23 August 2026 Read more →

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Fires, Gostivar's water, police without insurance and electricity priced by drought: the week the response always came last

Fifty-two fires in one day stopped by villagers, a crisis closed with a glass of water in front of the...

18 August 2026 Read more →

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Gostivar's 4,374 patients, a judge with 64 votes, diesel at 98.50 and a river with no culprit: the week when everything was by the book

Not one of these things required anybody to break a law this week. The tests existed, the votes were counted,...

03 August 2026 Read more →