Copenhagen’s Noma, which showcases the work of a young Macedonian-born Danish chef, edged out the top two eateries to win the award for world’s best restaurant, the World Street Journal said.
René Redzepi, 32, chef at the two Michelin star-rated Noma on Copenhagen’s docks, brought seven of his top eight staff to celebrate winning first place in the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards.
Redzepi claims he doesn’t use olive oil, tomatoes or nonseasonal garlic, as all of staff’s produce is from Denmark and the neighboring Nordic countries. He has championed such obscure ingredients as 45-year-old horse mussels from the Faroe Islands, monkfish livers and wild beach roses.
“I love this award and am so happy about what it can do for our country and our products,“ the World Street Journal quotes the 32-year-old chef saying.
Redzepi, who is half Dannish, half Macedonian, was the insider’s favorite to knock both Ferran Adriŕ’s El Bulli and Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck from their culinary perch, where they have exchanged the top two positions for the past six years.
The list was announced at a chef-studded ceremony at Guildhall, in London’s financial district.
Several German companies operating in Macedonia are satisfied with their business situation, but they still point to certain factors in Macedonia that have to be changed urgently, show the results of an opinion poll conducted by the Federation of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry-Skopje branch in cooperation with Macedonian-German Economic Association.
German investors still complain about lack of efficiency of public administration, transparency in tenders, legal certainty, poor approach to state aid and EU financial support as well as slow prevention of corruption and crime.
Despite the problems, German companies are optimistic and 79 percent of them are satisfied with their situation in Macedonia.
Macedonian government has decreased the participation fee for studying at state universities. In the future, the highest co-financing fee for students will be EUR 400 instead of current EUR 1,200.
The decision was made after the Parliament of Students at the University of St. Cyril and Methodius demanded a decrease in student taxes.
From now on, the participation fee will amount to EUR 200 for students within the state quota, whereas students outside the quota will pay up to EUR 400. The fee for dispersed studies will be some EUR 100.
Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski visited Sunday the flooded area, Tetovo’s Raotince village, where in the past couple of days the river Vardar spilled out of its banks, inundating about 30 houses and 200 hectares of cultivable soil along the river.
The PM together with Agriculture Minister Ljupco Dimovski and the directors of the Crisis Management Center and the Protection and Rescue Directorate visited Raotince residents to oversee the situation and determine whether the Government is able to provide assistance.
After meeting with residents, Gruevski said yesterday was the most critical day, adding that the water has receded.
- This is not happening for the first time. Inundations have emerged before. Evidently, this region is critical and a long-term solution must be found, PM Gruevski stated.
He vowed to review the project envisaging overhaul and arrangement of the Vardar river bank 7 kilometers lengthwise.
The village of Raotnice has been facing this problem for over 30 years. A project to overhaul the river bank has been made back in 1974 and it was renewed in 2005, but it remains unfinished.
The situation in Raotnice today is back to normal, the water has receded into the river bank.
