Greek nationalists attacked and molested four truck drivers from Macedonia in Greece last week. The Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is waiting for the full report on the two incidents before requesting via the Macedonian Embassy in Athens official explanation from the Greek Government.

Unknown masked and armed individuals set on fire the Goldengate Discotheque in Gostivar at about 03:00 on Sunday, the media report. This discotheque is owned by Fadil Arslani. Utrinski Vesnik comments that the intolerance between the two biggest parties in the Albanian political bloc started with a mutual confrontation on the first day of the official start of the election campaign. The owner of the discotheque maintains that PDSH supporters started the fire and kidnapped and tied the bodyguard of the discotheque. Material damage of approximately 700,000 euros was caused in this incident.

Michael Lee, director of the European Commission's Enlargement Directorate, presented to Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki in Brussels yesterday a list with conditions for canceling of the visa regime between Macedonia and the European Union.

The Republic of Macedonia and the United States will announce furthering of the partnership between the two countries in Washington today, but it is not certain whether this will be made official with a signed document. Dnevnik has learned from diplomatic sources that a document would be signed in which the United States will express strong support for Macedonia’s stability and security.

Macedonia and the United States will sign a document for “furthering bilateral cooperation” between the two countries in Washington on Wednesday. The document will be signed immediately after the meeting between Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Two big coalitions – "For a Better Macedonia", which is led by VMRO-DPMNE and consists of 19 parties, and the coalition "Sun – Coalition for Europe", which is led by opposition party SDSM and includes eight other parties – will run against each other at the early parliamentary elections on 1 June. A union candidate list and an independent candidate list, headed by Kavadarci Mayor Panco Minov, were also submitted to the State Election Commission. The remaining candidate lists were submitted by other parties and smaller coalitions. Experts assess that the undecided voters will determine the outcome of these elections, as well as the total voter turnout. If the voter turnout is over 60 percent, there is a chance of the opposition scoring better results at these elections.

The Summit of Heads of State of Central Europe was opened in Ohrid today with an address by Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski. The Macedonian president thanked the presidents for their participation in this summit, stressing that Macedonia’s key strategic objectives are integration into NATO and the EU. President Crvenkovski emphasized in his introductory speech that the name dispute was used to block Macedonia’s accession to NATO. He underlined that Macedonia is prepared for a fair resolution, but that it is not prepared to accept anyone’s dictate.