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The World Bank Executive Directors approved the First Programmatic Competitiveness Development Policy Loan (DPL) in the amount of US$50 million for Macedonia. The project supports the Government’s program aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of the economy by providing incentives for productive investment and technological upgrading in the manufacturing, agribusiness, and trade logistics sector, and establishing enabling conditions to progressively increase labor market flexibility and skills development, World Bank Office to Macedonia said in a press release. The Competitiveness Development Policy Loan is the first in a series of two programmatic operations that will support reforms to strengthen the competitiveness of Macedonia’s economy, said John Gabriel Goddard, leader of the World Bank’s project team. The supported actions aim to develop high value-added manufacturing, facilitate the restructuring of agribusiness, and improve the efficiency of trade logistic ...

Ohrid University for Information Science and Technology ‘St. Paul The Apostle’ and Oakland University signed Tuesday in Rochester a memo of cooperation within the visit of Macedonian Government’s delegation, led by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, to the US. “Singing of this memo presents an additional contribution to bolstering Macedonia-US cooperation in the sphere of education,” the Government Information Service said in a press release. Macedonia’s Ambassador to the US Zoran Joleski signed the memo on behalf of the Ohrid University. Today, the government’s delegation will present the opportunities for doing business in Macedonia in Detroit. The Macedonian delegation also includes Vice Premier for Economic Affairs Vladimir Pesevski, Minister for Foreign Investments Vele Samak, Director of the Agency for Foreign Investments and Export Promotion Visar Fida, as well as Director of the Technological-Industrial Developments Zones Viktor Mizo, the press release reads.

Republic of Macedonia and the People's Republic of China will sign Tuesday an agreement for economic and technical cooperation in the infrastructure sector. Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakieski and China's Ambassador to Macedonia, Cui Zhiwei are set to sign the agreement.

Party of the Macedonians in Albania, Macedonian Alliance for European Integration (MAEI) severely condemned attack with eggs and plastic bottle at the car of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and burning the Macedonian flags in Tirana downtown after Gruevski's visit to Albania. - Macedonians in Albania consider that such uncivilised act is not in favour to friendly relations between Macedonia and Albania, especially because this act happened during official visit of PM Gruevski to Albania, at which two countries confirmed good neighbourly relations, mutual confidence and friendship, reads the reaction by MAEI. The reaction also reads that such unseen vandalism is directed also against Macedonians in Albania, who are its loyal citizens, contribute to development of the country as its own country and promote tolerance and coexistence. - Macedonians in Albania expect authorities of this country to undertake urgent measures for finding and punishing the perpetrators and the...

Nach dem Staatsbesuchs des Premierministers Mazedoniens Gruevski in Tirana, verbrannten unbekannte makedonische Flaggen die sie zuvor von den Vorrichtungen entwendeten. Dabei filmten sie die ganze Aktion.

Albanische Radikale haben die fahrende Delegation Gruevskis beim Besuch in der albanischen Hauptstadt Tirana mit Eiern beworfen.

The phrases 'south Balkan nation' and 'ease of doing business' are mutually exclusive in the minds of many western business leaders. But in case you hadn't noticed, Macedonia, the most southerly of the former Yugoslavia successor states, came in at number 23 in the latest World Bank Doing Business rankings, reads the Financial Times article: Macedonia: doing business? - published on blogs.ft.com. Unsurprisingly, it was something Nikola Gruevski, Macedonia's prime minister, was keen to emphasise during an official visit Budapest. "Macedonia in 2006 was in the 96th position in the world, according to the World Bank’s annual 'ease of doing business' rankings. Now Macedonia is in 23rd position, in front of 20 European Union members, and all countries in central and eastern Europe," he told the audience of EuCham – European Chamber members in the Hungarian capital on November 13. In truth, that ignores Estonia's achievement – rank...