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The Government of North Macedonia organised on Wednesday evening a reception for high-profile guests on occasion the start of the accession talks with the EU. Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski opened the reception and addressed the guests. “Yesterday, we opened the final chapter of our long journey towards full integration in the EU, something that has been a strategic goal of ...

VMRO-DPMNE Leader Hristijan Mickoski said on Wednesday that if a referendum over the French proposal is organised, the citizens will vote only whether to accept it or not, and that the constitutional changes will not be referred in the referendum question. “Citizens will vote for the French proposal only. We are resolved that there will be no constitutional changes and ...

Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic said in an interview for Alsat TV that the screening process from the EU accession talks for North Macedonia was officially started on Tuesday in Brussels. “According to our analyses, our country already managed to adapt 45% of its legislature to that of the EU, so we believe that in about six months ...

Linguists and Macedonian language specialists from several educational institutions in the country issued an official reaction to the unilateral statement the Ministry of Foreign Affairs addressed to Brussels in relation to the Macedonian language upon the start of the EU accession talks for North Macedonia. “Having in mind the Parliamentary Resolution on the national positions concerning the blockades for the ...

Health Minister Bekim Sali informed at a press conference that an official team of the Agency for Medications MALMED is holding a meeting with representatives from the “Zan Mitrev” clinic in order to determine whether all legal procedures for implementation of the clinical research about the procedure of hemofiltration have been respected. “We are yet to investigate how the process ...

The Interior Ministry informed that one person has been arrested in relation to the incident with the burning of the vehicle of VMRO-DPMNE MP Petar Risteski in Prilep. The incident occurred on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, around 01:30 a.m., and team of the Prilep firefighting department intervened on the scene. The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the ...

The first intergovernmental conference between North Macedonia and the EU officially started on Tuesday afternoon in Brussels. Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski started the conference by reading the opening statement in Macedonian language. “It is a great honour that I have the opportunity to address the institutions of the EU in my native Macedonian language. Finally, after long 17 years, we ...

Upon the start of the first intergovernmental conference between official Skopje and Brussels for the accession in the EU of the former, both North Macedonia and Bulgaria delivered to Brussels their unilateral statements concerning the Macedonian language. The statement of official Skopje contains historical references, explaining that the Macedonian language has pretty long lingual and historical continuity based upon the ...

President of the United States Joe Biden extended his greetings to North Macedonia and Albania and their citizens upon the start of the EU accession process. “The United States welcomes the important steps the European Union is taking to advance the integration of the Western Balkans into the Euro-Atlantic community by opening EU accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia. ...

President of the Council of Europe (CE) Charles Michel welcomed the start of the first intergovernmental conference for the EU accession processes for North Macedonia and Albania. “I extend my greetings to all people in both countries. We witnessed intense debate over this process, especially in North Macedonia, but the Parliament there managed to make the crucial step forward towards ...