Tag: Bulgarian veto

Unlike the influence of Russia and China in North Macedonia that – to a large extent – is disseminated on the basis of positive identification and desired and/or shared values, we might say that the influence realized by Bulgaria is based on narratives overflowing with rejection, denial, and even animosity, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk,...

A number of gunfire shots, a scuffle with stones and bottles hurled, as well as verbal and physical violence took place yesterday evening during the protest in the capital Skopje against the European proposal for the start of the negotiations for North Macedonia's EU membership. The opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski accused that there was a police set-up and an attempt...

Eleven protesters were detained and 47 police officers were injured, 11 of which have severe injuries and two serious injuries, in yesterday's violent protests in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. The protest was organized by informal groups, but was supported by the main opposition parties from the Macedonian political block - VMRO-DPMNE and Levica. The participants oppose the European...

The Prime minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev yesterday, at the end of the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Brdo, Slovenia, in a statement for the media said that it is obvious that only one member of the EU – Bulgaria – objects to the start of the negotiations for accession of North Macedonia to the European Union (EU). He...

After the visit of the European Commission's President Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi will also arrive in Skopje today. Even though the visits of these two top EU politicians of North Macedonia could be seen as progress in the country's EU accession process, it is not so. Admittedly, Der Leyen mentioned...

Bulgaria's refusal to approve EU's negotiating framework for North Macedonia at the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Ministers of EU's member countries i.e. the EU's General Affairs Council (GAC) on the 17th of November 2020 was expected, as it was announced and has been portended with resolutions, declarations, and announcements for more than two years, the intensity rising since...