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.