I would like to take this opportunity to wish all first-graders successful school days and to make new friends, said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski at the opening of the school year today.

They are now starting a new phase of their lives, which, of course, will have many challenges. Unfortunately, life is not what is most often seen on social media — “Instagram”, “TikTok” and the like, but on the contrary, life has many challenges. Those challenges need to be solved, those challenges will need to be overcome alone or together with their parents, together with their friends, of course, in schools, the Prime Minister said.

So, here is a new page in their lives, and to all students in primary and secondary schools across the country I wish them a successful school year, to gain new knowledge and to apply that knowledge further through practice and work in their own homeland, Macedonia.