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Next week, PM Zoran Zaev will meet Bulgaria’s caretaker PM, Stefan Yanev. The meeting will be part of the protocol to donate 50,000 vaccines, but it will be used to agree a meeting at which there will be discussions to remove the obstacles preventing the first intergovernmental conference.  Zaev believes the renewed connections with Sofia at a PM and ministerial ...

If the country doesn’t start membership negotiations with the EU in June, it could stay in the waiting room even in the next two years. “This is the best chance,” Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said on Friday, adding that there was intensive work on the Portuguese proposal that didn’t cross the red lines set by Skopje and Sofia. Despite declining ...

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski has said that if President Stevo Pendarovski’s optimism is a result of additional national concessions with regards to Bulgaria, “I’m warning both him and PM Zoran Zaev that VMRO-DPMNE” will not support that. Answering a journalist’s question on Friday, the opposition leader stated that there shouldn’t be any sentence that could have a double meaning that ...

In an interview with Radio Free Europe, Deputy PM for European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov says that it will be counter-productive if there is political pressure for the Skopje-Sofia Commission on Historical Issues to deliver. In his view, everyone should be very careful when it comes to judging the work of the Commission. At the same time, Dimitrov adds, its members ...

Clear road conditions are reported across the country. Traffic will be temporarily closed on Friday along Kichevo – Ohrid A2 highway, on section Preseka – Vrbjani due to construction work (mining) in the period from 12 pm to 3 pm. Landslides are possible along the routes of Katlanovo – Veles, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Vinica – Berovo and Kochani ...

President of Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski had an audience in Rome with the Head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Sovereign of the Vatican City State Pope Francis. Pendarovski, along with his Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev, paid an official visit to Rome, where the two presidents observed the Holiday dedicated to Ss. Cyril and Methodius. At the meeting, Pendarovski and ...

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said during his visit of Rome that assistance from foreign history experts is not necessary in the Macedonian-Bulgarian Historic Affairs Commission. “We do not need that. No one knows the history of this region better than ourselves. I spoke with my Macedonian counterpart Stevo Pendarovski about this. The commission should do its work concerning history issues, ...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev spoke on the phone on Thursday afternoon with Caretaker PM of Bulgaria Stefan Yanev. As the governmental press service informs, Zaev and Yanev discussed the open disputes between the two countries and possibilities for making efforts for their resolution, with both of them concluding that the issues need to be resolved so that both countries can ...

The Health Ministry reported that they have registered 53 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, as well as 13 deaths of COVID-19 patients. Of the new cases, 29 are registered in Skopje, 7 in Prilep, 4 in Kumanovo, 2 in Bitola, Gostivar Ohrid and Kicevo, and 1 in Tetovo, Kocani, Radovis, Berovo and Valandovo. Since the start of ...

President Stevo Pendarovski and his Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev departed on Wednesday for Rome where they will mutually observe the Day of Ss. Cyril and Methodius on behalf of official Skopje and Sofia. “Operatively the discussions between our countries are conducted on governmental level, and we are here to try to relax the environment for negotiations a bit. We need ...