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Telegraph: Macron is ‘holding North Macedonia hostage’

According the UK daily newspaper Telegraph, diplomats in Brussels accuse Emmanuel Macron, who styles himself ardent Europhile, of blocking negotiations between Brussels and Skopje on north Macedonia joining the EU. Emmanuel Macron was accused of holding North Macedonia hostage to force through his dream of closer political integration among European Union countries on Wednesday. “The …

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Paris summit may not take place

French President Emmanuel Macron has invited leaders of Kosovo and Serbia in a meeting in Paris, however, this meeting may not be held after all. The leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Kadri Veseli maintains that he would never agree to discuss Mitrovica or any other part of the country’s territory on this table …

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Kotzias, Kasoulides, Mitov and Bushati call EU for Albania and North Macedonia

A joint communiqué is signed by former Foreign Ministers, Albania’s Ditmir Bushati, Bulgaria’s Daniel Mitov, Greece’s Nikos Kotzias and Cyprus, Ioannis Kasoulides, to begin without delay the European route of North Macedonia and Albania. Joint communiqué: “The European Commission presented its Communication on the 2019 EU enlargement policy with the accompanying Country Reports on 29 …

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Pendarovski-Lajčák: The EU recognizes the country’s progress and will fulfill its promise

 North Macedonia highly appreciates the strong commitment and the firm support from Slovakia for country to get a date for starting accession negotiations with the EU, President Stevo Pendarovski said at Wednesday’s meeting with the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovak Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miroslav Lajčák. President Pendarovski said that the integrated and safe …

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Dimitrov: If there’s no date by October, this will mark the end of European perspective

“If you ask me about my impressions on last night’s conclusions, we will not be happy if a decision is not taken in October. I think our success will be a very important signal for the entire region that our door is open and that there’s a European vision for Western Balkans. If such thing …

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Dimitrov: Our new foreign affairs policy aimed at solving problems has been aknowledged

 Yesterday’s conclusions by the General Affairs Council in Luxembourg acknowledged our new foreign affairs policy aimed at solving problems, North Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov said at the session of the National Convention on the EU. “We’ll be satisfied when we get the decision in the fall and when we take part in organizing the …

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Bulgaria ‘regrets’ EU ministers’ delay on decision on accession talks with North Macedonia, Albania

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said on June 18 that she regrets that it had not been possible for EU foreign ministers to make a decision on starting accession negotiations with the Republic of North Macedonia and with Albania. Zaharieva was quoted in a Foreign Ministry statement after a meeting of EU foreign ministers, in …

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Zaev: Today’s conclusion will turn into complete success in October

The conclusions of the General Affairs Council in Luxembourg strongly and undeniably acknowledged North Macedonia’s achievements over the past year, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said in a Facebook post. The prime minister also pointed out the agreements with Greece and Bulgaria received high praise, and the ongoing reforms in the country were also clearly recognized. …

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EU ministers begin discussion on membership negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania 

EU ministers chairing the General Affairs Council have started discussion on the 2019 enlargement package and on opening formal membership negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania.  According to the draft communique released from Monday’s Foreign Affairs Council, the EU ministers from the bloc’s 28 states will re-examine the issue in October.   The Council takes stock …

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Roth: The EU can’t risk credibility over Balkan enlargement

The European Union “must not lose credibility” as it weighs opening membership talks with Albania and North Macedonia, said German EU Affairs Minister Michael Roth. In his opinion, the two countries “have done their homework” assigned by Brussels, adding that North Macedonia deserves commendation for settling a name dispute last year with neighbouring Greece. Speaking …

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Justice Minister claims: No one protects Jovo Vangelovski

The last subjects on the agenda of today’s session of the Judicial Council are the discussion of the reports of the committees for determining the responsibility of judges and making decisions on the submitted requests for determining responsibility. However, up to the beginning of today’s session, there was no information whether the President of the …

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Pendarovski: The US will ratify the NATO protocol in August

Yesterday was a day for high-level visitors at Krivolak base as part of the Decisive Strike exercise, where North Macedonia’s Army infantry battalion presented offensive alongside members of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Decisive Strike is the largest military exercise to have been held in the country, including over 2,700 members of the Army of North …

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Justice Ministry to send extradition request for Gruevski to Budapest over the April 27 case

The extradition request for the fugitive former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski as being organiser of violent storming of the Parliament on 27 April, 2017 will soon be sent to Budapest, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska told reporters on Monday. “The complete case file of the court and the prosecution was forwarded to the Justice Ministry late …

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First anniversary of the Prespa Agreement – Mogherini and Hahn demand opening of accession talks

EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, Federica Mogherini congratulated North Macedonia today on the first anniversary of the Prespa Agreement. Mogherini called on EU member countries to open accession talks for North Macedonia and Albania. “Today marks the first anniversary of the Prespa Agreement between North Macedonia and Greece and I think we …

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