Next week, PM Zoran Zaev will meet Bulgaria’s caretaker PM, Stefan Yanev. The meeting will be part of the protocol to donate 50,000 vaccines, but it will be used to agree a meeting at which there will be discussions to remove the obstacles preventing the first intergovernmental conference.  Zaev believes the renewed connections with Sofia at a PM and ministerial ...

President of Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski had an audience in Rome with the Head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Sovereign of the Vatican City State Pope Francis. Pendarovski, along with his Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev, paid an official visit to Rome, where the two presidents observed the Holiday dedicated to Ss. Cyril and Methodius. At the meeting, Pendarovski and ...

President Stevo Pendarovski and his Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev departed on Wednesday for Rome where they will mutually observe the Day of Ss. Cyril and Methodius on behalf of official Skopje and Sofia. “Operatively the discussions between our countries are conducted on governmental level, and we are here to try to relax the environment for negotiations a bit. We need ...

Bulgarian Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Svetlan Stoev said at a press conference on Tuesday that the position of official Sofia towards Skopje remains unchanged, but added that the caretaker government of Bulgaria proposes new efforts for restart of the bilateral dialogue. “Our intention is to return the dialogue and the topics back to the normal European formats, where issues ...

Enlargement Commissioner at the European Commission (EC) Oliver Varhelyi and Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva paid an official visit to Sofia and Skopje on Friday. Varhelyi and Silva presented their proposal for resolution of the bilateral disputes between Skopje and Sofia to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, Deputy PM for European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov and Foreign Affairs Minister ...

The European Commission (EC) confirmed on Thursday that Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi and Portuguese Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva will pay visit to Sofia and Skopje on Friday. Namely, Varhelyi and Silva will allegedly present a proposal for resolution of the bilateral dispute between official Sofia and Skopje, which has been the reason for delaying of ...

The Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has expelled from the country one diplomat from the Russian Embassy in Skopje. MFA confirmed this information, revealing that Russian Ambassador Sergey Bazdnikin has been called for consultations at MF on 14 May 2021 and was given a note stating that the diplomat in question is to leave the country in 7 days. ...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev revealed in an interview for MIA that his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented at their meeting in Athens several ideas for resolution of the current bilateral issues between official Skopje and Sofia. “I believe that we can find a solution for the problem with Bulgaria. Still, for that we need help from all our friends, and ...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev participated on Thursday in a panel discussion at the Delphi Economic Forum that took place in Athens, Greece. PM Zaev spoke about the benefits from the Prespa Agreement, as well as the current events in scope of the EU-integration of official Skopje. “With the Prespa Agreement we removed the final obstacle on our way to becoming ...

We do not want to wait any longer for start of the accession talks with EU, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said at a press conference after a meeting with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell in Brussels. “Since March 2020 we have a confirmation that our country has meet all necessary conditions to start the ...