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Ursula von der Leyen and Olivér Várhelyi’s visit to North Macedonia doesn’t denote progress in EU accession
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...
Hahn advises to continue the reform process and to adopt the Law on Public Prosecutor’s Office
The Republic of North Macedonia deserves a green light in October for start of the negotiations with EU on the ground of all its accomplishment in the reform process in the last few years, with the Prespa Agreement, but also with the Good Neighborly Relations Agreement with Bulgaria, the EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes...
Dimitrov: If we don’t start negotiations this year, there is no European perspective
We have received a 10th recommendation to start negotiations, if we are expected to wait for an 11th recommendation from the European Commission next year, I will be to embarrassed to face my people and talk about the European perspectives of the country. If we do not start accession negotiations this year, to mean, it means that there is...
Tsipras: North Macedonia meets the criteria for start of negotiations
The postponing of accession talks with North Macedonia was not because North Macedonia did not implement the reforms but is due to procedural reasons, said the Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras in an interview for the Greek State television ERT3 concerning the concluding remarks that EU gave for our country. He explains that this decision is due to the inability...
Negotiations start date for Macedonia not until October
Yesterday, EU member states did not accept the recommendation from the European Commission to set a date for opening membership negotiations for North Macedonia and Albania. According to EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn, a small number of countries opposed it.
The draft conclusions from the ministerial meeting on general affairs in Luxembourg, which the media previously reported, said that EU member...
Dutch Parliament rejects resolution blocking Macedonia’s EU membership negotiations
Last night, the Dutch parliament rejected two resolutions - from the Socialist Party and the Party for Freedom- with a majority of votes - not to support the start of accession negotiations for Macedonia's EU membership.
At the same time, Parliament passed a resolution against the starting of negotiations for EU membership with Albania.
The resolution urged that negotiations with Tirana...
Tusk tells Pendarovski: Not all member states are ready to make a decision to start negotiations in the coming days
You have done everything expected of you, but I want to be honest, not all member states are prepared to make a decision to start negotiations in the coming days.
This is what President of the European Council, Donald Tusk told President Stevo Pendarovski after meeting in Brussels.
"Personally, I believe that there can be only one decision to start negotiations...
Žbogar: It is too early to surrender, get depressed or disappointed
EU Ambassador Samuel Žbogar, asked to comment on statements made by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev that if Macedonia does not receive a date for negotiations, he might hand back the mandate and call elections, said that all is not over.
"I do not have any new information, but I can say that it is not finished until everything is over. However,...
Zaev: I would exchange two Nobel Peace Prizes for a date on negotiations from the Council of Europe
I would exchange two Nobel Prizes for a decision from the European Council on a date for negotiations, replied Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, as to whether he believes he could really receive the Nobel Peace Prize together with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in an interview with the Belgian newspaper "Le Soir".
"If I get the Nobel Peace Prize, I...
Roth: The EU should fulfill its promises to Macedonia
The European Union should fulfill the promises made to the Western Balkan countries, says the Minister of State for Europe at the German Foreign Ministry, Michael Roth, after yesterday's recommendation by the European Commission that Macedonia and Albania have met the conditions and should immediately start membership negotiations with the Union.
"There has been visible progress in Macedonia and Albania....
Plenković: We will do all we can for North Macedonia to receive a date in June
In a statement to MIA, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said that Croatia will do everything it can to help North Macedonia receive a date for negotiations in June, reports a correspondent from MIA from Brussels.
Plenković, who visited Brussels on Friday afternoon and whose country is taking over the helms of the EU presidency next year, reminded that enlargement...
Mogherini: It will be a huge mistake if the EU does not start negotiations in June
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini expects accession negotiations for North Macedonia and Albania to begin in June.
Addressing the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, Mogherini said it would be a huge strategic mistake and an example of the EU's "short-sightedness" if it does not decides to open accession negotiations with...
Mickoski doesn’t share Zaev’s optimism about SPO
Despite Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's claim, who in a TV interview announced that the negotiations about SPO are heading in a good direction after 30 amendments by the opposition were accepted, VMRO-DPMNE's party leader, doesn't share his optimism.
-At this moment I'm not an optimist, but this process needs to be given a chance because it is of exceptional...
Osmani – Hahn: Macedonia will manage to achieve EC 2025 agenda
Macedonia will successfully become part of the strategy of the enlargement commission with the Western Balkan countries and will achieve the 2025 Agenda, Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani told EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn at today's meeting in Brussels, stated the Secretariat for European Affairs.
"Plan 18 has already been adopted by the Government and its implementation, for...
Shekjerinska: The parliament has a historic opportunity and responsibility to open the doors of NATO
The parliament has a historic opportunity and a historic responsibility to open the door for Macedonia and to enter into NATO, said in an interview for MIA the Vice Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense, Radmila Shekjerinska, who is leading the Macedonian team who will start officially in Brussels the accession negotiations for Macedonia's membership into the Alliance.
-If...
Elections or not, screening will continue but for EU negotiations, changes to Constitution must be made
Macedonia has begun screening for the EU accession process which will end in June 2019, however, if the Prespa Accord there will be no membership negotiations, explains Bojan Maricic, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Chief Technical Negotiator in the European Integration Process.
Screening, or determining the alignment of Macedonian legislation with EU law, is a technical process...
The rift between Zaev and Ivanov is evident as Kathimerini reveals excerpts from the minutes
The minutes that were seen by journalists of the Kathimerini newspaper from the leadership meetings in Macedonia regarding the negotiations with Greece before the name agreement was to be signed in June show that the political leaders have thought that the agreement would be easier for signing with the left-wing government in Greece, informs Meta's correspondent from Athens.
The...
Hahn: Accession talks will take longer than before
European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn in an interview with the Austrian daily "Tiroler Tageszeitung" said that accession negotiations for EU membership in the future will take longer than before.
"Quality before speed," Hahn pointed out - adding that the membership of Hungary and Romania "revealed a lot of things."
He emphasized that the EU has learned...
Government announces, the protocol for NATO membership will be signed in January 2019
In January 2019, the protocol for NATO membership will be signed, meaning that Macedonia will start to participate in NATO structures - but without the right to vote, and the accession negotiations with the Alliance begin in the second half of this year, the government announced today.
After signing the protocol for membership, the Government informs that ratification in all...
Osmani: Negotiations with the EU will be difficult, long-lasting and expensive
Today at a press conference in Government, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, Bujar Osmani and Special Adviser to the President of the Government for Euro-Atlantic Integration, Bojan Maricic presented the negotiating structure for Macedonia's accession to the European Union, which they said was a process that will be difficult, long-lasting, expensive and where there will be very difficult...
