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Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani believes that early elections are not needed and that the country needs political stability and predictability. “We are facing important issues both in terms of opportunities and in terms of crises that we need to overcome. Since 2006, the country has been in elections almost every year, whether it is a parliamentary, presidential or local referendum. ...

“I made a decision not to participate in the new Government with the new prime minister,” said Minister of Education and Science Mila Carovska in a statement to the media during a visit to the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food. “In the past five years, together with my team, we have really delivered policies in the interest of the ...

We expect the first EU intergovernmental conferences with North Macedonia and Albania to be convened soon, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in Sofia at a meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart Kiril Petkov, adding that Greece’s position in times of growing tensions is the only right path in favour of all is the movement of the Western Balkans towards the ...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in an open letter called to all countries in the region to join the Open Balkans initiative. “We take this opportunity to once again call on all our neighbours to join us in offering our citizens the benefits we offer to our citizens,” reads the open ...

Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska said that she will not be part of the new government. She reminded that eight months ago she resigned from the party position of vice-president of SDSM because she did not agree with some of the policies, which according to her, contributed to the defeat in the local elections and does not expect things to change. ...

Getting a stable government in Bulgaria paves the way for finding a solution to the dispute in January and unblocking North Macedonia’s European integration. This was stated in an interview with Bulgarian television by Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, who believes that a comprehensive approach to the dispute is needed, instead of long deadlines when there is already someone to talk ...

Total of 127 North Macedonia citizens joined terrorist groups in IS, 38 were killed, 69 returned, 19 remained. North Macedonia in 2020 was part of the Global Coalition to Defeat IS (Islamic State). There have been no terrorist attacks on its territory and no departure of individuals to join IS has been noted, but the main problem in the fight ...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced that he will resign as Prime Minister next week. He expects that after the formalization of the resignation in the Parliament, his successor as the new Prime Minister will be Dimitar Kovacevski, and the first success of the Government will be the holding of the first intergovernmental conference with the EU. “These days we are ...

“Bulgaria has the right to veto, but six months is too long a period in the context of the region,” said Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, commenting on the position of the new Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov. He points out that the decisions for EU enlargement are made by consensus among the members, as well as that the country’s position ...

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said that he was pleased that European leaders “finally understood where the real problem with North Macedonia was” and that all attempts to put pressure on Sofia were counterproductive. “At all European councils – since May, I have talked to every European leader on the topic of North Macedonia. I want to thank them, because for ...