18:00/September 27/2021 Skopje – Ahead of us is a complex task – to build systemic, media, and above all, personal resilience to disinformation through a holistic approach. We can only achieve this through close cooperation between state institutions, political parties, the business community, civil society and media, President Stevo Pendarovski told Monday’s regional EU-Western Balkans Media Literacy Conference: Building Resilience to Disinformation. Skopje – Disinformation and fake news are a threat to the globe and democracy. This has especially become evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, when fake news endangered people’s health. Media literacy requires systemic efforts, especially in the Western Balkans, where resilience to fake news is weaker, said EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, and EU Ambassador to North Macedonia, David Geer in their remarks at a regional EU-Western Balkans Media Literacy Conference: Building Resilience to Disinformation, organized by the EU Delegation and the Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM) in Skopje on September 27-28. Skopje – The big issues and dilemmas at the time of our independence in the early 1990s are no longer on the agenda. Our biggest national project – creation of an own independent state – has been completed, as is our membership in almost all important international organizations, crowned by our membership in NATO, thus ensuring our territorial integrity. We could continue to talk about losers in history, a divided nation, a nation suffering injustice, embargoes and sanctions, the Lisbon Declaration, the condition for us to join the United Nations that had never been set before, but all of this belongs to history, said President Stevo Pendarovski in his remarks at event “Contemporary Macedonian State – two stages in process of formation and development: 1941-1991/1991-2021”, organized by the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU) under his auspices. Brussels – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will discuss the Bulgaria dispute with Macedonian leaders on Tuesday but more details on the talks will be available after the meetings, MIA reports from Brussels. Resen – Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Monday – day one of the campaign for the local elections, pledged to run a positive election campaign as a party and coalition, focusing on both what has been done so far as well as future plans to support local self-governments and greater local economic development. Skopje – Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Fatmir Bytyqi said on Monday that the state budget is in excellent condition, adding that there’s no need to take out large loans by the end of the year. Skopje - The travel industry has found itself in a new reality and has had to adapt; now it’s emerging from the coronavirus crisis but the tourist season, although better than in 2020, was worse than in 2019, so the industry still needs state support, according to participants at an event marking World Tourism Day, Sept. 27. Skopje – North Macedonia registered Monday 112 new COVID-19 infections after 1,726 tests were carried out in the past 24 hours. Citing Public Health Institution’s report, the Health Ministry said there were 12 fatalities in the same time period and 419 people who have recovered from the virus. Skopje – Boris Trajkovski, Kiro Gligorov and Nikola Kljusev are the most popular politicians in the past three decades, according to a survey of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Institute for Social Research MK91 conducted to mark the country’s 30^th independence anniversary. Athens – At least one person is dead after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake struck the port city of Iraklion on the Greek island of Crete, according to media reports. Madrid – Portugal‘s ruling Socialists emerged as the winners in the nation’s local elections on Sunday, gaining 34.34 per cent of the vote, according to the National Electoral Commission.