In Sunday’s interview with RFE Macedonian, President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova said Austria was ready for talks to find a creative solution to the issue with Bulgaria and believed that, currently, what was most important to the EU was for the enlargement policy to be employed.
As she pointed out, Austria’s European and International Affairs Minister, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, would like for talks to solve the dispute to be held in the capital of Vienna.
Asked whether the country was closer to or further from EU talks when compared to the previous year, the President stated that if she said whether the country was closer or further, that wouldn’t be the right answer because, sometimes, distance or closeness was very relative since it didn’t mean that if there was a start of negotiations, that would truly mean a step forward.