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

NATO formally invites Macedonia to begin membership talks to join the organization.
2018-07-11

Police in northern Greece move more than 400 Syrians and Iraqis by bus from a makeshift camp near the Macedonian border to a shelter near the northern city of Thessaloniki. More than 50,000 migrants remain stranded in Greece following European border closures, and the European Union's agreement with Turkey.
2016-06-13

Greek authorities begin operations to clear the Idomeni refugee camp on the border with Macedonia.
2016-05-24

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

The European Union and the United States advise interim Macedonian Prime Minister Emil Dimitriev to postpone elections scheduled for April 24, 2016.
2016-02-21

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

Macedonia declares a state of emergency and deploys police units on its borders as immigrants from the Middle East, mainly from Syria and Iraq, block the railway line between Thessaloniki and Skopje.
2015-08-20

Five people are killed near Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia, amid simmering ethnic tensions in the country.
2012-04-13

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia buys 202 double decker buses from China's Zhengzhou Yutong Group for €35 million in the first cooperation between the two countries.
2010-04-17