BRUSSELS: Romania has taken some “backward steps” in fighting corruption despite European Union criticism, while fellow EU newcomer Bulgaria has made a number of positive moves, the bloc’s executive arm said yesterday. In interim reports on each, the European Commission told both countries, the poorest members of the bloc, that …

Skopje, February 12 (MIA) – Chairman of the State Election Commission (SEC) Aleksandar Novakoski had separate meetings Thursday with the Head of OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission, Peter Eicher, and Swedish Ambassador to Macedonia Lars Peter Freden. The meetings focused on SEC’s preparations for the forthcoming presidential, local elections in the …

Brussels, February 12  – Macedonia’s commitment and determination to remain loyal to its objective and pledge for full-fledged integration to NATO is the main message that was conveyed by country’s Foreign and Defense Ministers – Antonio Milososki and Zoran Konjanovski – to Alliance’s Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at …