On Tuesday, President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, in Tirana, said her country shouldn’t be a victim of identity issues because such matters were beyond any negotiating framework.
Following Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev’s comments that his country had never vetoed Skopje’s EU integration path, she noted that though she didn’t want to directly comment, that reply concerned not her country, but rather the EU, which should show there was no policy more important than enlargement.
In Budapest, Foreign Minister Timco Mucunski, in the frames of Budapest Global Dialogue 2025, stated that the Macedonian people had paid the price of patience and compromises. According to him the future of Europe must be built on confidence, not on imposed narratives or erasure of history.