The country celebrates Europe Day!
Ambassador Aivo Orav, Deputy Prime Minister Teuta Arifi and the President of the European Movement, Prof. Mileva Gjurovska, at a press conference held on 23 April at the EU InfoCentre, announced the activities for celebrating this year’s Europe Day, including numerous debates, lectures, competitions and local festivities taking place all over the country.
The European Flag Day was traditionally marked by placing of the European and Macedonian flags on the top of Vodno on Saturday, 5 May.
The traditional Skopje Marathon organized within the Europe Day celebrations, took place for the 6th time this year, on Sunday 6 May, with biggest number of participants until now – over 3500 runners.
At the central European Happening on 12 May in the City Park in Skopje, the audience enjoyed music concerts including Foltin’s performance of Claude Debussy’s an intergenerational chess tournament marking the 2012 European Year of Active Aging and Solidarity between generations.
An information campaign "The EU in Close-Up" takes place for the first time this year. It starts on 14 May and consists of an EU travelling bus which will visit 10 villages across the country and provide face-to-face information to their inhabitants.