Macedonia

From 1 September You Can Stop Outside Skopje Airport for Free Only Once a Day

Cameras read the number plates - a second arrival the same day means parking from 100 denars up. Taxi drivers...

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Skopje's Sanitation Company Says It Washes Daily, and the City Smells Like Something Else

The utility announced it washes every micro-location in every municipality. At the same time, Skopje residents are posting photographs of...

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A Broken Joint in Gjorce, Prams in Kisela Voda: The Dog Shelter Says Someone Is Leaving Dogs There Deliberately

The director says the dogs have no ear tags - meaning they are not strays, but brought and abandoned. And...

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A new kilometre-long fire line, lit from several points at once: near Gradsko control has been lost

Twenty-three fires in a single day, aircraft redirected from one front to the next. And on Kitka, someone waits for...

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19,031 born, 14,500 enrolled: 26 schools are closing, and nobody is counting the difference

Three hundred fewer classes, twenty-six villages without a school. Janevska says they "managed" to do it - but an empty...

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Fifty-two offences in one patrol, nine under the influence: Lake Ohrid has a law, but nobody to enforce it

A boat hit a paddleboard just off the shore, and the response came from residents standing on boards in the...

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Kavadarci depends on the wind, Bukovo has burned for years, and nine truckloads of waste left Kičevo

The fire is not being put out - it is being buried under soil. And when clearing a dump means...

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Spraying until 3:30am across twenty-four neighbourhoods: when the emergency became a weekly schedule

One suspected case was enough for an entire village to be treated. Spraying is protocol and it has to happen...

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Nine thousand denars in Butel, three thousand in Gjorče Petrov: what a first-grader is worth depends on the postcode

The municipalities are doing more than they have to. The problem is that "free education" means the teaching is not...

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Shtip Has 27 Fewer First-Graders Than Last Year: One Class Vanishes Every Year

A decade ago the town had over 10,000 pupils. This year it has 5,569. The first-grade desk is the most...

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Eleven Struga Villages Lost Their Bus a Week Before School: The Bill Is 55,000 Euros

The operators stopped after years of funding the service out of their own pockets. The mayor says the debt was...

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Bitola Goes From Six Sectors to Ten: Every Fourth Employee Will Be Somebody's Manager

The administration calls it dispersing power, the opposition calls it party hiring worth 200,000 euros. The real problem is the...

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