Commissioner for Enlargement at the European Commission (EC) Oliver Varhelyi said that Macedonia should make stronger efforts to meet the concerns of Bulgaria so that both sides can find a mutually acceptable solution for the bilateral disputes between them. As Varhelyi said, this is a matter of “political will, engagement and decisiveness”, and said that the EC is ready to ...

The Co-president of the Macedonian-Bulgarian Commission on historic Affairs and Head of the Bulgarian team within the same Commission Angel Dimitrov said in an interview for the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) that he is not very optimistic about the work of the Commission, adding that its Macedonian Members are not very cooperative. “Turns out it’s hard to work with Macedonians. ...

  The Health Ministry conducted in the past 24 hours 2,564 COVID-19 tests among citizens of Macedonia, and 946 of them turned positive. The Health Ministry also registered 789 cured patients, as well as 33 deaths as a result of COVID-19 complications. The Interior Ministry fined in the past 24 hours 578 citizens who did not wear face protection in ...

The Government of Macedonia decided at a session held on Tuesday to appoint former PM Vlado Buckovski as representative of the government to Bulgaria. In a brief statement provided on Tuesday evening, Buckovski said that he will do his best to convince official Sofia to recognise the good results we have achieved since the signing of the Good-neighbourliness Agreement. “I ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani attended on Tuesday the online informal meeting of the General Affairs Council of the EU, which was chaired by German Minister of Europe Michael Roth. In his address, Osmani said that the European future would be unimaginable without the Western Balkans included in it. “When we talk about the future of North Macedonia and the ...

VMRO-DPMNE staged two new anti-governmental protests in Skopje, one in front of the building of the Government of Macedonia, and one in front of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski addressed the citizens in both protests. “These are moments, days in which we all need to decide about our future. In the past years, ...

The Health Ministry informs that in the past 24 hours 3,012 COVID-19 tests were conducted among citizens, of which 1,069 turned positive. The Health Ministry also registered 1,242 cured patients, as well as 29 deaths as a result of COVID-19 complications. So far in Macedonia, 62,945 cases of COVID-19 were registered, of which 40,188 are cured, 20,965 are still active, ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a conference on Monday that there are still chances for Macedonia to hold its first inter-governmental session with official Brussels for start of the EU membership negotiations. “We are facing difficulties to secure the organisation of the first inter-governmental conference with North Macedonia, because there is still necessity of negotiations between official Skopje and ...

US Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and former US Ambassador to Macedonia Philip Reeker addressed a letter to PM Zoran Zaev, voicing support for Macedonia’s integration in the EU and resolution of the bilateral disputes with Bulgaria. “Your accession in the EU remains our great mutual interest, and we shall continue supporting in ...

Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov said in an interview for German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) that Bulgaria wants the integration of Macedonia in the EU even more than Germany. “We really want to see North Macedonia in the EU. However, their claims of an alleged Macedonian minority in Bulgaria still pose a problem. There is no such minority in Bulgaria. ...