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Answering a question from the Bulgarian National Radio, Portugal’s Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ana Paula Zacarias, said the language of North Macedonia had once been part of the Bulgarian language and the cultural dimensions of the two countries, the SDK.MK portal and multiple other media reported on Tuesday. The same day, PM Zoran Zaev said Foreign Ministry services ...

Portugal’s Ambassador, Maria Virginia Mendes da Silva Pina, said her country would never endanger the process to find a solution to the Skopje-Sofia dispute. On the contrary, she added, it constantly tries to facilitate it. She denied the that Portugal’s Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ana Paula Zacarias had made the reported comments about the Macedonian language. However, as ...

The EU’s constant failure to deliver on its promises and its inability to move forward by opening the first intergovernmental conference with Skopje and Tirana goes against the European will of North Macedonia, Albania, and Serbia, and against the interests of the EU itself, it is said in the joint statement after the meeting of PM Zoran Zaev, Serbian President ...

In the frames of the European People’s Party (EPP) Political Assembly in Brussels, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski met with MEP David McAllister, who chairs the European Parliaments’ Committee on Foreign Affairs, and MEP and EPP Vice-Chair Paulo Rangel. Also, he held an informal meeting with MEP Andreas Schieder, who co-chairs the EU-North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee. Mickoski said EU membership ...

Bulgaria today wants to get what it didn’t with the Balkan and two World Wars, former President Branko Crvenkovski assessed at the Western Balkans Forum in Sarajevo. As he added, Bulgaria’s stand is perfectly clear to him, but he’s interested in how the other EU members see that. Crvenkovski reacted also to the statements by the address of former Bulgarian ...

PM Zoran Zaev believes that there is no need for early elections as a result of the new blockade from Bulgaria. As he said on Monday, North Macedonia has no territorial aspirations into its neighbours, while it’s important for Bulgaria to remove the blockade. Zaev expects positive signals from Brussels in December. The PM is adamant that there is nothing ...

The enlargement process and latest developments related to the last EU Summits was the central topic at this year’s meeting of Visegrad Group (V4) and Western Balkans (WB6) Foreign Ministers in Poznan, in the frames of the Polish Presidency of V4. In the presence of Miroslav Lajcak, EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues ...

In his address before European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) members on Monday, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi said a date to hold the first intergovernmental conference that would mark the formal start of negotiations with North Macedonia should be set without delay. According to him, each delay will have a serious impact on the political-economic situation in the country, ...

According to US Ambassador Kate Marie Byrnes, her country is really disappointed with the fact that North Macedonia hasn’t started EU negotiations and constantly sends the message that the country is ready and has met all EU integration criteria. “We will continue our diplomatic engagements in the future, too,” she pointed out on Monday, adding that North Macedonia’s future was ...

In the frames of their visit to Brussels, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski, together with the party’s Vice-President, Aleksandar Nikoloski, and International Secretary Timco Mucunski, held a meeting with MEP Marco Campomenosi, who heads the League Delegation in the EP. They talked about deepening relations between the two parties and countries. According to Mickoski, North Macedonia, wanting progress, must stay on ...