Барањето на Доналд Трамп за „отплата“ од 500 милијарди долари од Украина оди многу подалеку од американската контрола врз критичните минерали во земјата. Опфаќа сè, од пристаништа и инфраструктура до нафта и гас, како и поголемата база на ресурси на земјата. Условите на договорот што слета во канцеларијата на Володимир Зеленски пред една недела, […]
Вицепремиерот за европски прашања Бојан Маричиќ ја отфрли забелешката дека во извештајот на Европската комисија за Македонија има оценка – назадување. -Јас не видов збор „назадување“ во извештајот, тоа е ваше слободно толкување. Комисијата дава објективен пресек на напредокот, но и на слабостите. Имаме напредок во 80 отсто од поглавјата, а ниту во едно не […]
Велика Британија и Европската унија постигнаа царински договор што би можел да го отвори патот за крај на повеќегодишните расправии околу Северна Ирска по Брегзит пред две години. Според Тајмс, Брисел го прифатил предлогот со кој би се избегнала потребата од рутински проверки на производите наменети за Северна Ирска. Соопштено е дека ЕУ за првпат […]
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev met Thursday with a delegation of the German Federal Foreign Office including Christian Hellbach, Special Envoy for South-Eastern Europe, Turkey and the EFTA Countries, Thomas Ossowski, Director for EU Policies at the German Federal Foreign Office and German Ambassador to Skopje Thomas Gerberich. “With the Prespa Agreement, we showed that […]
Resolving the name dispute is not the sole requirement for opening EU accession talks; the focus should be placed on reforms, and not on snap elections, EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said in an interview. While holding snap elections is the country’s sovereign decision, Hahn said, he disagrees it’s the […]
Bulgaria’s national interest regarding Macedonia is to have a stable and secure neighbor. It will be such when it will join NATO and the European Union, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva said. She said ‘the country will not compromise the conditions that have to be respected to become part of the entire EU negotiation process.’ […]
68% of Serbian public against a NATO membership Serbia’s support for the integration to the European Union remains below 50%, a trend observed over the last three years with some slight fluctuations. According to the most recent poll conducted by Serbia’s Euro-Atlantic Studies Center in co-operation with the CESID opinion poll, 47% of citizens are […]
Most citizens in the European Union are opposed to expanding the Union with new members in the coming years, while at the same time candidate countries continue to support EU membership and believe it would be useful, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey conducted by the European Commission. The survey, which included 5 candidate countries […]
EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Johannes Hahn has declared ahead of the start of the meeting of the EU Council of Foreign Ministers that he does not believe that Nikola Gruevski will be extradited from Hungary to Macedonia. Asked if he supports the amendments adopted by the European Parliament where Hungary is asked to return Gruevski […]
EU spokeswoman, Maja Kocijancic declared today that Brussels’ message for Kosovo’s newly introduced tariffs “is clear” and that the EU expects authorities from Kosovo to withdraw these measures. Meanwhile, the EU official said that both sides should refrain themselves from provocations. Kocijancic dismissed the comments coming from Pristina, according to which the EU head of […]
Mr. Figel’, what is the purpose of your visit to Macedonia? I am here as a former chief negotiator of Slovakia and its first European Commissioner. Also, Special EU Envoy for Promotion of Freedom of Religion. Iwas invited here to the USAID-supported National Convention on the EU. I was a colleague of your Secretary of […]
Over 650,000 citizens voted in the referendum and over 90 percent of them voted ‘FOR’, sending a message that Macedonia should accept the (name) agreement with Greece and become a member of the European Union and NATO, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told a press conference late Sunday. “European Macedonia has secured more votes ‘FOR’ than […]
MEP Ivo Vajgl, the Rapporteur for Macedonia in the European Parliament, criticizes the opposition’s “negative position” related to the name dispute resolution, fearing that this referendum may be “the last chance”. “I think that now is the moment when everyone should be on the same side, on the side of Macedonia’s long-term interest. Because it […]
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is set to visit Macedonia on Thursday for meetings with the country’s top officials, the government said in a press release on Wednesday. Mogherini is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, President Gjorge Ivanov and leader of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski, the press release reads.
Minister without Portfolio in charge of foreign investments Zorica Apostolska paid a working visit to the Municipality of Ohrid, where she had a meeting with the Mayor Jovan Stojanoski and visited the companies Mitrotek from Ohrid and Lindi from Kicevo, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia signed Financial Assistance Contracts under […]
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev held Thursday a meeting with the Dutch Ambassador to Macedonia, Wouter Plomp, in which support was expressed for the policies bringing Macedonia closer to Euro-Atlantic accession. “I expect the majority of citizens to vote for the Euro-Atlantic future of the Republic of Macedonia in the upcoming referendum,” said PM Zaev, according […]
Former European Commission’s Director-General for Enlargement Pierre Mirel explains that Macedonia should have been separated from Albania with regards to setting a date for commencing the EU accession talks, and says he regrets France’s decision to postpone this process. – It is not so terrible for Albania if it is postponed for a year, because […]
The agreement protects the Macedonian identity. Citizens of Macedonia will proudly join the NATO and the EU. It’s time for a decision! We are moving forward to NATO and EU, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev wrote in his Facebook post on Monday evening. The post is part of Government’s campaign on upcoming autumn referendum on Prespa […]
EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn has hailed the decision taken by parliament in Macedonia for the holding of the name referendum on 30th of September. “The EU hails this agreement and its implementation as symbol of reconciliation and good neighbouring relations in the region. I call on the citizens of Macedonia to use their democratic right […]
The NATO membership invitation for Macedonia is very important for you, but it is also important for us. We support the country’s EU integration process, which in fact requires the name referendum in late September to be successful, Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă told a news conference in Skopje alongside her Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev. “My […]
