Bank plans to give Macedonia $100 million to pursue economic reforms and address health, education and social welfare issues at a time of crisis.

Germany's automotive supplier Draxlmaier Group Automotive, is to invest €30 million in a new factory in Macedonia that is expected to employ some 4,000 workers.

Macedonia plans to restore foreign investments in 2012 to the level last seen in 2008, one year before the global economic downturn sliced investments in half.

Macedonia's ski resorts are ready and open for the season's first skiers, following recent snowfalls.

As savers start shifting investments from euros to dollars and swiss francs, Macedonia's bank chief assures savers that their money is safe whatever happens to the single currency.

The Moscow-based Solvay firm plans to spend some €150 million on building two new copper mines and a copper processing facility in eastern Macedonia.

After three decades, Macedonia has finally found the money to go ahead with the Boskov Most hydro power plant, a major infrastructure project near Debar in western Macedonia.