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Ethnic issues, foreign policy key in North Macedonia presidential campaign

March 4, 2019March 6, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

The candidates who will stand in the Republic of North Macedonia’s April 21 2019 presidential elections have now been confirmed.

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EU moves to reduce costs of cross-border payments in euro

March 4, 2019March 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The Council of the European Union said on March 4 that it had adopted a regulation on aligning the costs

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EU to enable easier recovery of unpaid road tolls

March 4, 2019March 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Unpaid road tolls “could soon be history”, as the EU is setting up a new information-sharing system to enable member

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European Parliament committees back Romania’s Kövesi for European Chief Prosecutor

February 27, 2019March 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Two European Parliament committees have selected Romania’s Laura Codruţa Kövesi, the former head of the country’s anti-corruption prosecution, as their

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CEP study: Germany gains most from euro introduction

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 Deutsche Welle euro zone

A new study from the Centre for European Policy in Freiburg has shown Germany to have gained “by far the

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A choice between EU and Russia in bad-movie Moldova vote

February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 Deutsche Welle Moldova

The final days of Moldova’s current election campaign seem like a bad movie. On Thursday, Maia Sandu and Andrei Nastase, leaders of

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Greece eases border crossing rules for citizens of North Macedonia

February 21, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Macedonia

North Macedonian citizens will cross the border with Greece only with their travel documents. The sheets of paper that had

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New EU visa rules a step closer

February 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen

European Union countries endorsed on February 20 an agreement reached by the European Parliament and the European Council on a

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UN welcomes official notice of Republic of North Macedonia name

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, Macedonia

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has confirmed receipt of official notice from Skopje and Athens of the change of the

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