Macedonia - Media Review – December 1

UTRINSKI VESNIK

- Macedonian Foreign Ministry has praised the decision of the Council of the European Union to grant visa-free travel to the citizens of Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro as of December 19.

- Polish bus producer Solaris participates in a tender to supply 100 city buses for the Macedonian capital of Skopje. Unofficially, two other companies, Macedonia's Sanos and China's Zhengzhou Yutong Group, have filed bids in the tender called by the Macedonian Transport Ministry. 

VECER

- Macedonian power transmission operator MEPSO has asked the country's energy regulator to increase the average selling price of electricity by 1.6%

- Macedonian Farm Ministry said it has paid out 84% of the total 70 million euro allocated for agricultural subsidies for 2009.

- The Health Ministry reported the fourth swine flu-related death in Macedonia, a 55-year woman who died on Monday after being infected with the A/H1N1 virus.