Tag Archives: Zoran Zaev

Zaev: We Received Clear Date for Launching Accession Negotiations

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Thursday that Macedonia has received a clear date for the start of EU accession talks, while the screening process of chapters would begin with a visit by Commissioner Johannes Hahn around July 20. “We have received a clear date for the beginning of the talks and there is no dilemma in this. The screening process ...

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Mickoski criticises SDSM for not Getting date for Negotiations right Away

On Wednesday, VMRO-DPMNE leader criticised SDSM because of, as he said, Macedonia’s failure to get a clear recommendation for a start of accession negotiations with the EU right away. “The only thing Macedonia has received is hope that the criteria for setting a date will perhaps be met this time next year,” he noted. Mickoski stated that the government had ...

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Rose-Roth Seminar starts in Skopje

The NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s 98th Rose-Roth Seminar started in Skopje on Wednesday. The three-day event is dedicated to “Euro-Atlantic Integration of the Western Balkans: Reinforcing the European Peace Project”. PS Talat Xhaferi said he was convinced the name agreement between Skopje and Athens would be fully implemented by the two sides by the end of 2018 at the latest and ...

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PM Zaev delivers Address at debate in Vienna

Within the frameworks of his visit to Vienna, PM Zoran Zaev delivered an address in the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, which, together with the European Fund for the Balkans and the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group, organised the debate “Towards a Common European Future for Southeastern Europe: The Case of Macedonia”. As he pointed out, in one year, ...

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Reactions to EU Council’s Decision on Macedonia

On Tuesday, the EU’s Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, in a statement for Telma TV, congratulated Macedonia’s citizens on the EU Council’s decision. “Now, it’s clear that we will start negotiations in June next year and we can, as a Commission, immediately start preparing these negotiations from tomorrow onward,” he said. PM Zoran Zaev, too, ...

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PM Zaev Meets Austrian Chancellor Kurz in Vienna

On Tuesday, PM Zoran Zaev held a meeting with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Vienna. At the joint press-conference following the meeting, Kurz said his country strongly supported Macedonia regarding a start of accession negotiations with the EU. According to him, Macedonia deserves that. The Austrian Chancellor added that his country would do everything it could in order for the ...

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Greek FM Kotzias: Europe Must Keep its Word to North Macedonia and Albania

“In our opinion, as long as the European Commission started and set a horizon this summer to launch formal negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania, we will have to deliver the promise we made,” Greek FM Nikos Kotzias says in an interview with EURACTIV. He urges “all sides to understand that there are indeed problems with these countries; we have ...

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