North Macedonia: 47 police officers hurt in protests

People light flares and throw eggs and stones at the foreign ministry building during a protest in Skopje, North Macedonia, late on Tuesday July 5 2022 (Boris Grdanoski/AP)

Police in North Macedonia said 47 officers were hurt, two of them seriously, after a group of mostly young people threw stones, metal bars, eggs and Molotov cocktails at the parliament building in the capital.

Thousands of people have protested nightly in Skopje since the weekend over a French proposal for a compromise aimed at lifting objections by neighbouring Bulgaria to North Macedonia joining the European Union (EU).