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Bitola Gets New Fire Engines With European Money: a Water Tanker and Off-Roaders Ahead of Fire Season

The kit arrives through the EU's FIREFLY project and will serve Novaci and Mogila too. Real work, not a ceremony...

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Skopje Enters a „New Era” of Transport Again: the BRT Project Is Finally Unlocked

The word that keeps coming up is „unlocked.” Commuters stuck in traffic won't be won over by an announcement -...

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Good News From the Zoo: Skopje's White Wolves Have New Cubs, and Two Pups Have Already Won Over the Whole Team

Among headlines about detentions, bank fees and landfills - two little wolf cubs hiding close to their mother, just like...

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A 15-Kilometre Cable for 15,000 Euros and a 50,000-Euro Party: Anti-Corruption Body Opens a Case on the Institute of Public Health

Staff drawing salaries without showing up, premises rented out to a private bakery, a cable nobody can locate. The list...

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Macedonia in the UN's ECOSOC for the First Time With 174 Votes - a Diplomatic Win That Still Has to Mean Something

174 votes is no small number. But a seat in New York is the easy part; making it mean something...

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EU Ambassador „Shocked” by Struga's Landfill: It Grew From 22 to 30 Metres in Five Years, Right by Lake Ohrid

Rubbish a step away from what we put on the postcards. The mayor promises a tender - but the lake...

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The Vodno Tower Was Finished in January, Opens Only in June: When Delay Becomes the Norm, We Stop Counting It

155 meters and 20 million euros, finished half a year ago, and still waiting on paperwork shuffled from one counter...

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Elected One, Governed by Another: Karpoš Has Gone Almost a Month Without a Mayor, and the Stand-In Doesn't Even Exist in the Law

Lukrovski is on sick leave with no explanation, and the municipality is run by a councillor holding a title Macedonian...

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Toškovski Announces Registration of E-Scooters: Safe City Saved 17 Lives, but the Reaction Arrives Years Late

Road deaths fell from 56 to 39 in five months, foreign plates will finally be fined. But e-scooters have been...

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The Academy That Creates Judges Didn't Follow the Rules Itself: 13 Years of Procurement Without Competition, an Entire Generation Annulled

The state audit uncovered payments to coordinators the law doesn't provide for, and the enrolment of 130 trainees annulled in...

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Ohrid Is Crumbling Piece by Piece: a House From 1927 Demolished on a Day Off, Institutions Pass the Buck

56 buildings erased from the list of cultural heritage. The request for emergency protection arrived before a long weekend, the...

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80% of Pets Are Not Neutered: Bitola Paid 126,000 Euros for Bites, Seven Times More Than in 2021

The root of the stray-dog problem isn't on the street, it's at home. A new law demands registration and oversight...

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