Orban: With Macedonia’s EU and NATO membership, it will fill the hole in the Balkans

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said today in Budapest that Hungary will support Macedonia’s membership in the EU and NATO, which, he said, will fill the gap in the Balkans.

Orban said after meeting with Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, that wasn’t announced in Macedonia, said that it in the interest of Hungary, any country in the Balkans had interest, from Greece all the way to his country, to be part of the EU and NATO.

Hungarian Prime Minister said that Hungary stands for a “single economic and security zone and currently there is a gap between Hungary and Greece.”

President Gruevski said that the country have been waiting a several years to join the EU and that it is fully prepared for integration.

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