Full Coverage: Macedonia (FYROM)

27.07.2005 The Electronic Network Centre and the E-Macedonia Foundation presented today the new internet website, Nasa Strana (Our Site), which is a part of the programme implemented under the same name. Zlatko Nikolovski from the Electronic Network Centre and Slave Mladenovski from the E-Macedonia Foundation talked to the media at the presentation.

26.07.2005 The Court of First Jurisdiction “Skopje 2” decided that the “Resist, Say No” civic action can join the legal team of the subscribers involved in litigations with Macedonia Telecommunications Ltd.

25.07.2005 At the meeting held in Negotino on Thursday, July 21, the Association of Public Local Broadcasting Enterprises of Macedonia discussed the Draft-Broadcasting Law and estimated the new legislation will completely destroy the local system of information.

22.07.2005 The Sobranie of the Republic of Macedonia started today the general debate on the proposed Law on Labour and Employment.

20.07.2005 “Svetla Vizija” association of unemployed citizens discovered a number of Articles that are not in compliance with the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia and are directed against the dignity of the working class.

19.07.2005 The round-table discussion titled “Promoting the young persons on the labour market and alternative forms of knowledge and skills acquirement” was held yesterday at the Union of Women Organizations in Macedonia (SOZM) facilities in Skopje. The discussion was organized under the “Open Space” Youth Centre Programme.

19.07.2005 The campaign to replace the plastic with shopping bags made of cloth, sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, started last week with distribution of textile bags to the shoppers in front of “Vero” supermarket and “McDonalds” restaurant in Skopje.

18.07.2005 An explosion hit a police station in the Macedonian capital late on Friday in what appeared to be the second attack on police this week. A senior police official said a device had exploded about 23:30hours outside the police station in Bitpazar, a mainly ethnic Albanian quarter, a few kilometres from Skopje city centre.

15.07.2005 On July 13, 2005, the MOST civic association held its third Electoral Assembly, which elected the new bodies and organs of the associations. Also, the Assembly adopted the Decision for Changes and Amendments to the MOST Statute.

14.07.2005 The Ministry of Labour and Social Policies organized a public debate on the draft-Law on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, yesterday, in Skopje.

12.07.2005 The Humanitarian Association of Single Mothers (HANSM) from Ohrid, Macedonia, recently released its Report on ICT in Macedonia, covering the period 2003-2004.

12.07.2005 Macedonia, together with Albania and Moldova, holds the last place in SEE in terms of foreign investments. Last year, only 151 million US Dollars in direct foreign investment (DFI) were realized, show the findings of the Foreign Investments Agency (FIA). The Agency, together with UNDP, GTZ and “Kapital” weekly, organized yesterday the “DFI and Local Self-Government” Conference.

08.07.2005 Vlado Buckovski, Prime Minister of Macedonia, met yesterday, July 7, with Madeleine Albright, the President of the National Democratic Institute NDI and former US Secretary of State.

07.07.2005 “Corruption: Detect, Report, Condemn” is the name of the campaign launched by the National Commission for Prevention of Corruption, with the aim to involve all citizens and institutions in the prevention and fight against this phenomenon.

07.07.2005 What do dot-ORG projects in Mali, Brazil, Macedonia and Uganda have in common beyond the fact that they all involve the provision of some form of information technology?

06.07.2005 A series of training programmes were organized under the Legal Programme of the Open Society Institute Foundation (FOSIM), aimed to raise the awareness of municipal officers and NGOs on the rights and obligations presented through the concept of free access to information of public interest.

05.07.2005 The Local Elections in Macedonia, as we all remember, were held back in March of this year. Last Friday, the process was, presumably, completed, with the start of the transfer of powers and resources from central to local government level.

04.07.2005 Forming of the Committee for Information Technology, adoption of the Law on Electronic Communications and developing National Strategy on Information Society are the key activities for the development of information society in Macedonia, said Macedonian Minister of Transport and Communications, Mr. Xhemali Mehazi, at the Southeast Europe Ministerial Conference on Information Society held in Thesaloniki.

03.07.2005 Friday, July 1, marked the start of the fiscal decentralization and transfer of powers from state to local level, the greatest and most important reform in the Republic of Macedonia on the road to Europe.

01.07.2005 Macedonian Centre for International Cooperation presented, for the fifth time, its Civil Society and Democracy Award and the “Hert Jan van Apeldorn” Sustainable Development Award. The awards were presented at a ceremony organized at the “Aleksandar Palace” Hotel in Skopje.