(MENAFN) North Macedonia is conducting runoff elections Sunday as citizens cast ballots to determine municipal leadership across 33 localities where first-round results proved inconclusive. Polling stations opened at 7 am local time (0600GMT),...
(MENAFN) Voters in North Macedonia are heading to the ballot boxes on Sunday for the second stage of local elections. Citizens are selecting mayors and council members in 33 municipalities where no contender secured the necessary 50% of votes...
(MENAFN) Voters in North Macedonia went to the polls on Sunday for the second round of local elections, according to reports. Citizens are selecting mayors and city or town council members in 33 municipalities where no candidate secured the...
(MENAFN) Voters in North Macedonia are casting ballots on Sunday for the second round of local elections, with over one million registered citizens choosing mayors and council members in 33 municipalities where no candidate secured the required...
SKOPJE, 31 October 2025 – International election observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will hold a press conference to present their findings following the second round of the local elections in North...
This year marks the 25th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security - a landmark document recognizing women’s vital role in building peace, stability, and democracy. For over two decades, the OSCE Mission to...
(MENAFN) Preliminary results from North Macedonia’s local elections on Sunday show the country’s governing coalition leading in the majority of municipalities. With approximately 70% of votes tallied, the bloc led by the Internal Macedonian...
SKOPJE, 20 October 2025 – The campaign was competitive in North Macedonia’s local elections and voters had a wide range of political alternatives to choose from, but they were negatively affected by systemic legal gaps and shortcomings in the...
SKOPJE, 17 October 2025 – International election observers will hold a press conference to present their findings following the local elections in North Macedonia. What: A press conference of the international election observation mission to the...
Energy experts and decision-makers from South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean met in Vienna on 15-16 October for an OSCE Regional Workshop on “Building Energy Systems Resilience: Science-based Decisions to Face Future Risks and Extreme...
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister and head of VMRO DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski celebrates with his wife Roza and supporters in Skopje on Sunday after the runoff vote. Photo: EPA/GEORGI LICOVSKI. After Sunday’s local election runoffs, the ruling VMRO...
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE) won the run-off in the local elections in North Macedonia in 21 of the 33 municipalities and in the City of Skopje, the Central Election...
Montenegro has made the most progress on its path toward EU membership among Western Balkan countries over the past year, while Serbia continues to lag behind in aligning with the EU’s foreign and security policy, primarily because it has not...
As it prepares for another wave of enlargement, bringing in candidate countries from the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe, Brussels faces a critical challenge: how to expand while maintaining its climate ambitions. The answer lies not in...
The European Commission will present a report on the progress of Ukraine and other EU candidate countries on Tuesday, November 4. Ukraine's rating is expected to be assessed as "mostly positive," Rikard Jozwiak, Europe editor for Radio Free...
EDIRNE, Türkiye / ISTANBUL Scholars and religious leaders attending the second Balkan Scholars Meeting in Türkiye’s northwestern province of Edirne on Sunday emphasized the importance of unity in the Islamic world and called for global efforts to...
(MENAFN) Voters in North Macedonia are casting ballots on Sunday for the second round of local elections, with over one million registered citizens choosing mayors and council members in 33 municipalities where no candidate secured the required...
Greek filmmaker Thanasis Neofotistos is in post-production on his buzzy feature debut “The Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes,” a genre-bending coming-of-age story about fear, superstition and acceptance set in the hinterlands of rural Greece. The...
By Biagio Carrano There was a time, which now seems almost like a fairy tale, when in any Belgrade tavern you could have a mixed meat grill and a salad for 10 euros. It wasn’t that long ago-just ten years. Unfortunately, in those ten years, many...
