President of Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski said at a press conference that the Security Council of Macedonia that assembled on Thursday decided to propose the government to declare a 30-day state of crisis on the entire territory of Macedonia.  The decision follows the great increase of numbers of new COVID-19 cases and deaths in the past weeks. “If a state of ...

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said in an interview for Bulgarian TV Nova that she is appalled by the usage of hate speech towards Bulgaria in Macedonia. “For a year and a half now, we see no signs of change of the culture in North Macedonia towards Bulgaria. As a woman, I must protest the language full of sexism used ...

President of Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski said at a press conference on Thursday that he did not change his rhetoric towards Bulgaria, nor has influenced such a thing, opposing to accusations coming from official Sofia after an interview of his for Austrian Public Broadcaster ORF. In the interview for ORF, Pendarovski stated that the Good-neighbourliness Agreement contains no obligation for negotiations ...

Deputy PM for European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov took part on Thursday in an online conference titled “Western Balkans and their EU-integration – Challenges and possibilities”, organised by the European Balkan Fund, BiEPAG and the Danish Foreign Policy Institute. At the conference, Dimitrov referred to the Bulgarian blockade for the adoption of the EU membership negotiation framework for Macedonia’s EU-integration. “We ...

A video of a young man burning a Bulgarian flag titled “Our response to mutual history” was published on social networks on Thursday. The video was published on a Facebook page, whose owner claims to be member of the youth forces of VMRO-DPMNE’s local committee in the municipality of Gazi Baba. From VMRO-DPMNE however, they denied any connection with the ...

The Health Ministry conducted in the past 24 hours 3,081 COVID-19 tests among citizens, of which 1,198 turned positive. The Health Ministry also registered 621 cured patients, while 26 have passed away as a result of COVID-19 complications. So far in Macedonia, 51,213 COVID-19 cases have been registered, of which 30,204 are cured, 19,58 are still active, while 1,423 have ...

A spokesperson of the US Department of State told “Voice of America” that Macedonia and Bulgaria should resolve their bilateral disputes outside of the processes for accession of Macedonia in the EU. “The accession of North Macedonia in the EU is a mutual goal of ours, and we would like to see the first inter-governmental session between Brussels and Skopje ...

PM Zoran Zaev said in an interview for Deutsche Welle on Wednesday that the decision of official Sofia for blockade of the EU membership negotiations with Macedonia does not reflect the wishes of the majority of the citizens of Bulgaria. “I can say that majority of the people in Bulgaria, and even PM Boyko Borissov himself, did not want this ...

Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov said during a session of the Bulgarian government that it was Bulgaria that wanted the integration of Macedonia in the EU the most of all member-states. “Our position is not one of stubbornness, but rather one of principles that reflect the interest of the Bulgarian people. We were very concerned and cautions in the dialogues we ...

MEPs Ilhan Kyuchyuk and Andreas Schieder expressed in an open announcement their dissatisfaction with the decision of Bulgaria to not approve the EU membership negotiation framework for Macedonia. “The failure of the foreign ministers of the EU member-states to start the first inter-governmental session between Brussels and Skopje seriously jeopardises the credibility of the EU among the Western Balkans. The ...