24 October 2019
During today’s press conference, the French Ambassador Christian Thimonier stressed that the geopolitics have surpassed the real expectations and an impression was made that the Prespa Agreement was the only condition for starting the negotiations”. He also said that he has passed to French authorities in Paris the string emotions and the disappointment that is […]
27 September 2019
The Bundestag MPs with a vast majority have approved the government to give its approval for opening accession negotiations with our country. 476 MPs voted in favor of among which were MPs from the opposition, 122 MPs while 16 didn’t vote. The German ruling party is demanding that the state should continue with the reforms […]
25 September 2019
The Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs, Bujar Osmani is currently visiting Berlin where he has met with the MP of the German Bundestag, Christian Petri of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. At the meeting, Osmani and Petri spoke about the support for the decision for starting Macedonia’s accession negotiations with the European Union […]
16 September 2019
If we have no perspective, and that is the stake of getting the date for the start of the negotiations with EU in October, we shall grow weaker, and the sceptics, the nationalistic forces and populists will get stronger. That will help those that doubt the European project, which is our strategic orientation, while on […]
19 June 2019
At the Ministerial Council of EU, we received a printed legal guarantee that no later than October we shall receive a date for starting the negotiations. There is no possibility for making a decision without the agreement of all other countries which means that there is a consensual decision, replied today Prime Minister Zoran Zaev […]
14 June 2019
Въпросите около датата за започване на преговори на Северна Македония с ЕС, разбира се, че са много важни. Обществеността вече е наясно с това какви са ползите от всички аспекти, но възниква въпросът дали датата за започване на преговорите е съдбоносна за Северна Македония и нейните граждани до степен, че нейната сигурност или като цяло […]
13 June 2019
As part of the two-day working visit to Germany, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will be having a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel. At the meeting, Zaev will be joined by Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs, Bujar Osmani and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Dimitrov. At the meeting, one of the key subjects that […]
5 June 2019
During the meeting with President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn, we learned that the European Commission in its reporting of the past 5 year mandate, placed North Macedonia and its success on the list of the 20 biggest achievements of the European Union for this period, announced Prime Minister Zoran Zaev at a […]
30 May 2019
The government led by SDSM has lied again, as there will be no date to start negotiations with the EU this year, stated opposition party VMRO-DPMNE. “SDSM will not start negotiations even with the change to the name because there aren’t any reforms. Zaev should know that the EU will not stand for partisan administrations […]
29 May 2019
With multiple indications that North Macedonia as a country has done tremendous progress, the EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn and the Vice President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini at the press conference that took place in Brussels presented the reports for 2019 regarding the advancements of several countries including ours. The European Commission has requested […]
28 May 2019
President Stevo Pendarovski has met today with MEP Ivo Vajgl and a special rapporteur about North Macedonia at the European Parliament. “During the meeting, they were exchanging opinions about the current political situation, the current reformatory process in the context of the country’s accession into the EU including the political conditions in the EU after […]
20 May 2019
Today at the Vienna Economic Forum, the EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn said that he is hoping that he will be able to persuade the skeptic EU members to open the accession negotiations with North Macedonia and that he is convinced that it shall come to that in the summer and that the first chapters will […]
19 March 2019
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev began his official visit to Brussels by meeting with the Vice President of the European Commission and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Policy and Security, Federica Mogherini, informs the government. “At the meeting, Republic of North Macedonia’s significant progress achieved in the process of meeting its reformatory agenda was […]
9 October 2018
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 […]
2 October 2018
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 […]
20 July 2018
It is absolutely incorrect that VMRO-DPMNE is demanding and negotiating some form of amnesty. These inaccurate briefings by SDSM are only an attempt to defocus the public’s attention from current events related to the harmful agreement with Greece, which VMRO-DPMNE does not accept, said the main opposition party. “SDSM should stop misinforming the public and […]
8 February 2018
The Foreign Ministers of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kotzias, will meet in Sofia on the 15th and 16th of February, on the sidelines of the informal meeting of the heads of diplomats of the EU countries and candidate countries for membership, announced the Independent Balkan News agency IBNA. Dimitrov and Koztias expect […]
26 November 2017
We will enter negotiations with Greece with good faith and without fear, in an effort to overcome our differences, said Macedonian Foreign Minister, Nikola Dimitrov in Sunday’s interview with “Radio Free Europe”. “If there is a defeated side it will not be good for the winner or for the loser, because terrible nationalism will develop. […]
2 October 2017
Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia, Nikola Dimitrov, denied the information that during negotiations with Greece, they are discussing the matter of identity. “Negotiations have not yet started, we are currently drawing the contours at what level, in what format and when they begin. It is not useful to speculate […]
30 July 2017
The former Foreign Minister, Nikola Poposki stated that the previous Government while negotiating with Bulgaria, sought to achieve equality and reciprocity for all items in the agreement. “At the level of the working groups, the text was given as a draft with five or six empty spaces. For each empty space, there were option for […]
