Tag: Sebastian Kurz

The Vice Prime Minister for economic affairs, Kocho Angjushev, took part in the working breakfast that was organized by the Chancellor of Austria, Sebastian Kurz for the prime ministers of the Western Balkans. Angjushev attended the working breakfast instead of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev who canceled his attendance due to inner political affairs in the country. The government informs that...

Todau in Vienna, prime ministers of the Western Balkans will have a working breakfast with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, which will be attended by European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Johannes Hahn and European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel. Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev canceled his participation due to internal political developments in the country. According to...

Austria is a friend of Macedonia and the whole region, and we would like to live in a common future. As the Chairman of the European Union, I can say that the EU will be complete when it will be integrated with the Western Balkans. For Macedonia, the solution to the name dispute will bring dynamic. First of all,...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced last week that German and Austrian Chancellors Angela Merkel and Sebastian Kurz, as well as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg are scheduled to visit this week. At the tribune in Berovo, he stressed that "the fact that three world statesmen will visit Skopje this week, is another positive sign, recognition and support for Macedonia." "Stoltenberg arrives on...

Tomorrow, Foreign Minister, Nikola Dimitrov, will be paying an official visit to Austria at the invitation of Austrian Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz, reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the visit, Foreign Minister Dimitrov is scheduled to meet with members of the committee of the Austrian National Council, as well as with the President of the Austrian Chamber of Industrialists. This...

Macedonian political parties need to make the decisions that are made after elections, and from our side there will be no interference in the further course of events, said Austrian Foreign Minister and Chairman of the OSCE for 2017, Sebastian Kurz, who today is visiting the country. He noted that Austria’s interest in Macedonia will continue to be a strong...

The chief of Austrian diplomacy and chairman of OSCE, Sebastian Kurz, arrived today in Macedonia, and this afternoon, along with his host, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Poposki paid a visit to border stone 59 at the Macedonian- Greek border crossings, near Gevgelija. During the visit of border stone 59, only Poposki gave a...

The chief of the Austrian diplomacy and president of OSCE for 2017, Sebastian Kurz, tomorrow will be visiting Macedonia officially and during the visit, he will be meeting his colleague Nikola Poposki. According to his agenda, which was released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Poposki and Kurz, tomorrow at 13.30, will be visiting the border stone 59...

Hungarian Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó this morning came to Macedonia on a state visit, and met with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Poposki, and tonight he too will be a guest at a VMRO-DPMNE election rally. Mr. Szijjártó just like his Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz, who this week took part in a VMRO-DPMNE rally, and then had a bilateral meeting with...

Austrian Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz’s appearance at the VMRO-DPMNE central rally in Skopje, on Sunday, came too late and was bad compensation to the Macedonian authorities for closing the Macedonian-Greek border and stopping the flow of migrants into Austria and to Western Europe, wrote Vienna newspaper "Der Standard". “Many have asked themselves in recent months: "What did the Macedonian government...

The former head of the Social Democratic Party of Austria in European Parliament, Hannes Swoboda expressed regret over the performance of Austrian Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz at the pre-election rally of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE in Skopje. "It is high time Macedonia embarked on a new path based on European values. Therefore it is particularly regrettable that Minister Kurz supported those...

At last night’s VMRO-DPMNE rally, I attended as a member of the European People's Party and there is nothing controversial about that, said Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sebastian Kurz, in response to a reporter's question after meeting with his Macedonian counterpart, Nikola Poposki. “I am here as Austria’s Foreign Minister. Yesterday I attended a party event as a representative...

In the coming weeks, Austria will reach its limit for taking refugees for the year (37,500) and will close the border said Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said at a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki. “Austria is a member of the three countries along with Germany and Sweden, who take in the most refugees. Our decisions will...

This week, Austrian and Czech Foreign Ministers Sebastian Kurz and Lubomír Zaorálek, will be visiting Macedonia, where their main focus will be on the refugee crisis. The visit of Kurz in Macedonia is part of his tour of the Western Balkans. Kurz two days ago he visited Sarajevo and yesterday went to Belgrade. As well as visiting Skopje, he will...

The Foreign Minister of Austria Sebastian Kurz said West Balkan countries must not face a blocked road to the EU because some of the, like Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, are in danger of steering away from Europe and towards radical Islamist group, like we have in the middle of Europe. -This is an immediate danger for us as neighbors....

The EU  must help Macedonia with their current situation which has become quite dramatic, as the country has been left isolated and alone to deal with the increased number of immigrants moving through its borders, stated Austria's Minister  for Foreign Affairs. Sebastian Kurz visited Macedonia for one day and made the journey to the immigrant camp in Gevgelija, was accompanied by the...

Minister of Interior Mitko Chavkov and the Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, who is visiting the country, will visit the town Gevgelija which was in the focus of the international media because of the unfolding crisis with Middle Eastern refugees. “Today, August 24, at 10:30 in Gevgelija, the Minister of Interior Mitko Chavkov will receive the Austrian Minister of Foreign...