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Commercial air travel resumes between Greece and Macedonia for the first time since 2006.
2018-11-1

A referendum is held in the Republic of Macedonia on whether to change the country's name in order to join NATO and the EU.
2018-09-30

As protesters continue to take to the streets of Skopje, Macedonia, lawmakers confirmed that a snap election will take place on June 5 despite the protesters being angry at President Gjorge Ivanov’s decision to halt investigations into more than 50 public figures, including top politicians embroiled in a wire-tapping scandal. Zoran Zaev, the main opposition leader, vowed to boycott the election.
2016-04-16

Macedonian police fire tear gas at refugees as they attempted to break through a fence at the Greece-Macedonia border near Idomeni, sparking clashes that injured 200 people.
2016-04-10

Greece claims that Macedonia has closed its borders to migrants from Afghanistan.
2016-02-21

Greece faces suspension or expulsion from the European Union's Schengen Area if it can not prevent waves of migrants from crossing over the country into Macedonia.
2016-01-25

In the ongoing protests in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, tens of thousands of people rally in support of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.
2015-05-18

Voters in the Republic of Macedonia head to the polls for a runoff presidential election.
2014-04-14

The European Court of Human Rights rules that Khalid El-Masri, a German citizen, was an innocent victim of extraordinary rendition by the Central Intelligence Agency and orders Macedonia to pay him €60,000 after it arrested him and sent him to the CIA. CIA agents then transferred him to a detention facility in Afghanistan.
2012-12-13

Inter-ethnic violence is reported in the Macedonian cities of Skopje and Tetovo overnight.
2012-03-11