Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski announced Saturday four new investment in the near future, which were expected to open 4.000 jobs.

"Next week the Italian company 'Techno Hose' will kick start test production. On Monday, Bitola will host a corner-stone laying ceremony for construction of a plant of the German company Kromberg & Schubert, which is to employ 2.500 people. In the second half of July, Belgium's largest bus manufacturer Van Hool will launch the construction of its plant. Initially it will engage about 500 workers and export buses to the US," Gruevski told reporters on Saturday after visiting the Skopje University Clinic for Children's Diseases.

In addition, Turkey's Kurum Holding' has been chosen as concessionaire of the iron mine Tajmiste in western Macedonia. At the beginning it will open 500 jobs, announcing employment of new 1.000 workers after a three-year construction of a plant, the PM said.

Although this year is much more difficult than the previous one, recent business activities in Macedonia have been satisfactory, considering Europe's debt crisis, recession, Gruevski said.

PM Gruevski: Greece's stickers are undignified

It is up to each citizen to decide how to deal with Greece's impudent, undignified move to put stickers on new registration plates of vehicles from Macedonia, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski told reporters on Saturday.

"Everybody will act in line with own standards and opinion. On the other hand I will not be surprised if Greeks start to put such stickers on the forehead of our citizens. It seems that they are doing their best to prevent Macedonian tourists to visit Greece," Gruevski said.

The Government, he said, handed over a protest note against this practice, with Greece responding that it is in line with the 1995 Interim Accord, signed by then ruling SDSM, which in that time was saying that the reference FYROM would be used for only two months. As we can see the consequences are still present, the PM added.