Macedonia

Two Schools in Bitola Are Running for One Child Each, and 188 First-Graders on the Interior Ministry's Lists Never Turned Up

Three village schools go dormant, two stay open for a single pupil each. The municipality says enrolment is still running....

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148 Empty Schools and 433 Fewer Classes: In Ten Years We Have Lost 8,300 First-Graders

In 2016, 23,266 children started first grade. Today 14,952 did. The ministry calls it optimisation - a word that describes...

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Pelister Is Under Control After Three Days of Fire, but Two Institutions Cannot Agree Whether Anyone Was Injured

The park director says two crew members were injured during the night. The head of the rescue directorate denies it....

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Macedonia

Skopje's Budget Revision: 420 Million Denars for a New Bridge Towards Saraj, Liabilities Down by 60 Million Euros

The budget growth, the falling debts and the comparison with Shilegov and Arsovska all come from the mayor's own announcements....

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150 Electric Buses for 51 Million Euros - After Two Cancelled Tenders Nobody Ever Explained

The contract is signed with a Hungarian company and the first 30 are due by the end of December. The...

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Macedonia

"City Train" Zelenikovo - Skopje for 40 Denars: The Line Was Running on Sleepers From 1959

Twenty-eight minutes to the centre instead of the morning crawl through traffic. But the figure that says the most is...

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Macedonia

Shtip Lost Its Water Because Turbidity Hit 400 NTU and the Filter Plant Can Handle 50

One storm in a neighbouring region left several municipalities without reliable water. The Shtip wells that worked for half a...

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Shtip Has No Water: The Filter Station Is Taking In 400 NTU and Can Process 50

One summer storm is enough to leave a city of over forty thousand people without drinking water indefinitely. The director...

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Third Night on Pelister: Some of the Crews on the Ground Have Not Slept for 48 Hours

A helicopter dropped 28 tonnes of water, bulldozers are cutting firebreaks, and the fire returns with every rise in temperature....

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19,031 Born, 14,500 Sitting Down in First Grade: Where Are the Missing 4,500 Children?

Falling birth rates do not explain the whole number - the children starting school this year were born when over...

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Macedonia

Over Two and a Half Hours from Greece into Macedonia: The Holdup Is Not at Our Counters

The queue on the Greek side stretches from the toll booth to the crossing. At Medzhitlija the wait is about...

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Macedonia

The City Train Starts on Tuesday: 40 Denars, 25 Minutes and Sleepers Older Than the Passengers

Part of the line was running on wooden sleepers laid in 1959. Now the train will do 80-90 instead of...

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