The EU accession negotiations are like the Tour de France – a long, winding and hard road ahead, said Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg on Monday. “I can compare this process to the Tour de France. It is not important who is on the starting grid, there are many stages and a long road ahead, […]
Austria’s clear message of support for EU enlargement and North Macedonia’s EU integration aspirations was conveyed Monday at a meeting of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with the Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs Alexander Schallenberg. Austria has an overwhelming consensus regarding a positive decision for North Macedonia at the October European Council […]
Austria’s Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs Alexander Schallenberg is set to pay an official visit on Monday. Schallenberg will meet with his host, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov before holding a joint press conference in Skopje, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Schallenberg will also hold talks with President Stevo Pendarovski, Prime Minister Zoran […]
After the EU Commission issued a recommendation for the opening of accession talks with the two Western Balkan states North Macedonia and Albania, the European parliamentarians of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) Karas and Mandl demand that the “promises” be kept. The decision to open accession talks will be taken by the Member States later […]
The political crisis in Austria is neither accidental nor unique. Nor was it surprising. It was the revelation and possibly the confirmation of how the far-right in Europe is being bolstered by known/unknown “centers” that want to destabilize the European Union and make it backtrack. Of course, merely deciding to boost the far-right is not […]
