On 5 March 2025, the Italian Senate (upper house of parliament) approved the law for the ratification of the pending social security agreement with North Macedonia. The agreement, signed 25 July 2014, will enter into force on the first day of the third month after the ratification instruments are exchanged and, once in force and effective, will replace the 1957 social security agreement between Italy and the former Yugoslavia as it applies with respect to Italy and North Macedonia.