Foreign license plates in Macedonia

When visiting Macedonia this summer, I noticed what seemed to be an unusually large amount of cars with foreign license plates, most of them Italian but also a lot of German and American along some other European ones.

I can recall seeing license plates from around 10 (!) different countries in a single road in Debar alone.

Can someone shed some light on this. I'm sure there's an obvious reason I'm missing because the number seems way too high to be explained by tourists from these countries alone.

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Best Answer

If I remember correctly (from news), there are many fake plates, and if one look carefully, you should notice that the plates use wrong font, mixes elements from one region/state to an other, etc.

It is just cheaper to have a fake plate that an car assurance. Just such care should not travel abroad, where police have better access to foreign police databases.

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