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Commenting on the first 100 days of the new Government’s term, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski called on Thursday for a direct meeting with PM Dimitar Kovacevski in order for, as he said, a date for early elections to be agreed. In the interim period, he offered working groups for economy, foreign affairs, healthcare, and education. The Kovacevski Government, the opposition ...

The Vancho Mihailov issue dominated the session for parliamentary questions, held on Thursday. Dimitar Kovacevski isn’t capable of running the country because he allows a fascist to be celebrated, VMRO-DPMNE MPs reacted, asking three questions about the opening of the Club in Bulgaria. “I am very disappointed that Bulgaria chose the name of a highly negative figure,” the PM stated, ...

The US strongly supports a start of EU negotiations for North Macedonia as soon as possible, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried said during Thursday’s visit to Skopje. According to her, the country’s future is in the EU. As Donfried added at the press-conference with Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, Skopje has met all criteria, ...

If necessary, I will go to Skopje and Sofia every day so that this ends now. That was the message sent by Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi from Tirana on Thursday. He expects the two countries will nonetheless have started negotiations by the end of June despite the veto and Bulgaria’s firm position. As Sitel TV reported, asked until when Albania ...

If not now, it isn’t known when. That can be interpreted between the lines from Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi’s visit to Skopje on Wednesday. Once again, he didn’t reveal whether June was a real deadline for a start of negotiations and whether three was movement forward towards a solution. The Government didn’t offer many details about what message the Commissioner ...

Parties reacted on Wednesday to the fifth anniversary of the 27 April 2017 storming of Parliament. “Five years later, we have an obligation to never allow the bloody Thursday to repeat itself again. It will not be repeated only if all political entities essentially unite around democratic values,” SDSM said. VMRO-DPMNE organised a protest outside the prison in Prilep, where ...

9 May will this year be used for propaganda, former PM Zoran Zaev warned on Wednesday. At a debate in Strumica, he said the EU should take bold steps and solve all open issues in the region, especially North Macedonia’s. In his view, the EU should learn the lesson from the war in Ukraine. French Ambassador Cyrille Baumgartner stated that ...

There are 14 European Court of Human Rights judgements concerning Macedonians in Bulgaria, but Bulgaria hasn’t implemented any, VMRO-DPMNE Vice President and MP Nikoloski said during the regular session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. According to him, that represents strong undermining of the Court’s credibility, which is why the Council of Europe must act. “In the ...

It’s disappointing that though several years have passed, there are still discussions on a start of negotiations with Skopje and Tirana. That was Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi’s message in Sofia on Tuesday. At the EU-Western Balkans (WB) panel discussion, the Commissioner added that the war in Ukraine was an indicator that the Union didn’t have time to lies, while integration ...

At the meeting with Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi on Tuesday, Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov confirmed the wish for finding a mutually acceptable solution to the open political issues with North Macedonia. The current situation in the Western Balkans, in the context of the crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the latest developments in relation to the Skopje-Sofia ...