Nobody from today’s generation of politicians has the right to reach deals or negotiate on the language and identity, according to President Stevo Pendarovski. As he said in Wednesday’s address to Parliament, if the price of EU accession is giving up on the identity and language, that’s an unacceptable condition for every Macedonian. Also, the President added that though there ...

SDSM praised on Wednesday President Stevo Pendarovski’s address in Parliament, describing him as an ally in overcoming all obstacles and reaching solutions ensuring a better life. The party’s Parliamentary Group Coordinator, Jovan Mitreski, welcomed, as he said, the fact that Pendarovski defends the state position in the process to ensure the country’s European future, as well is in finding solutions ...

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva has once again presented the stand that her country doesn’t deny the Macedonians’ identity and language. In her view, it is the other way around, that is, they deny the Bulgarians’ right. In an interview with Die Welt, she says that over the past 10 years, 88,450 citizens have obtained Bulgarian citizenship on the basis ...

The conclusions concerning enlargement with the changes demanded by Sofia were officially confirmed in Brussels on Wednesday by the Committee of Permanent Representatives. As MIA reports, the Bulgarian demands regarding the “misinterpretation of history” and use of the whole constitutional name of the country were accepted. This is considered success of the German EU Presidency, which had risked being left ...

Over 90% of students are part of the online education process successfully, Education and Science Minister Mila Carovska said on Wednesday. Less than 1% of students and teachers have the coronavirus. The reforms in the primary education sector provide for annulment of the history subject, which will be part of the social sciences ones and studied alongside geography and civic ...

There will be no New Year’s Eve celebrations as new more restrictive measures accepted by the Government, but the day parties in the pre-New Year’s period will be able to squeeze through in the period until 6 pm, when the hospitality venues will need to close in the next five weeks. Neither the hotel arrangements nor the renting of weekend ...

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski has set a series of conditions for a leaders’ meeting. On his official Facebook page, he said on Tuesday that VMRO-DPMNE had frozen its relations with President Stevo Pendarovski after the granting of the mandate to Zoran Zaev. He described that as one of the reasons why the opposition will not attend a leaders’ meeting organised ...

Wednesday will see the German Presidency’s final attempt for adoption of the conclusions concerning EU enlargement, including also for Macedonia, which were removed due to the Bulgarian blockade. However, as MIA reported on Monday, currently, it’s unclear what type of compromise Berlin will propose even though it’s certain that it’s drawing up new conclusions that still haven’t been published. The ...

Acting US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasia and former US Ambassador to Macedonia Philip Reeker said that the EU should not allow bilateral issues between Bulgaria and Macedonia to halt the EU-integration of the latter. “EU should not allow bilateral disputes to halt and stall the deserved progress of North Macedonia in the EU-integrations. We believe that ...

Bulgarian Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said during an address at the Bulgarian Parliament that Macedonia must overcome a great number of stereotypes in order to start its journey towards EU-integration. “Good-neighbourliness must become part of the EU membership negotiation framework, for that would be the strongest guarantee for Bulgaria that the Good-neighbourliness will be fully and properly ...