-“The adoption of the law on languages will improve relations between the communities and bring the country back to the reform agenda,” EU Ambassador Samuel Zbogar said Monday underlining that the EU is optimistic in regard to the implementation of the law. Zbogar answering journalist question related to the language law, which was passed last […]
The commissioner general of the Belgian Federal Police has been appointed as the new executive director of European Union law enforcement agency Europol. Catherine De Bolle was appointed Thursday, which is International Women’s Day, by the European Council. She replaces Briton Rob Wainwright, whose term at the head of Europol expires May 1. With a […]
Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov met with High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the EU, Federica Mogherini. The minister’s office said that the region’s stability and the European integration of Macedonia had been discussed. – Macedonia returned to the European path, both with the domestic reform agenda, as well as with the stake and determination for […]
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, after returning from the Western Balkans tour, told EuroNews that the European Union is not putting pressure on Macedonia and Greece to resolve the name dispute. – Pressure is not an instrument we should use. We encourage Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to find a solution themselves […]
Macedonia has opportunities; our expectations are to receive an unconditional recommendation in April, and in June we will get a date for starting the negotiations, said the President of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, in Sofia today. He participated in a working meeting between the leaders of the Western Balkan countries […]
Ambassador Alejandro Alvargonzález and Maciej Popowski, Deputy Director General for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations at the European Commission, has been postponed for tomorrow, because of the weather conditions of the Republic of Macedonia, the Assistant Secretary General of NATO for Political Affairs and Security Policy, in Brussels, were prevented today from flying to Skopje. […]
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will meet today with NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, Ambassador Alejandro Alvargonzález and Maciej Popowski, Deputy Director General for Neighborhood Policy and EU Enlargement Negotiations, who will pay a two-day visit to the Republic of Macedonia Macedonia. According to the government press service, the visit of […]
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said after his visit to Skopje, Tirana, Sarajevo, Podgorica and Pristina that he had not promised a date for joining the European Union. He added that he did not promise dates for the start of pre-accession negotiations and that the quality was more important than speed for him. – The […]
UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson have reaffirmed the strong support to Macedonia’s EU and NATO accession at a meeting with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Vice Premier Bujar Osmani in London. The meeting was held in the framework of the reception for Western Balkans PMs, the Government said in a […]
The EU’s top court on Thursday found Poland guilty of violating air quality laws, in the latest clash between the bloc’s authorities and the right wing government in Warsaw, AFP reports. The European Court of Justice urged Poland to comply “without delay” or face fines after finding it had exceeded limits for toxic fine particles […]
Germany strongly supports the strategic commitment of Macedonia to joining the EU and NATO, Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was told at Wednesday’s meeting in Berlin with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Macedonia got strong support from Germany for its strategic commitment, EU and NATO membership. What we need to do is to keep implementing reforms […]
Slovakia supports Macedonia’s EU and NATO integration process and will assist the country in significant areas, agreed Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Slovak Ambassador Henrik Markus at Monday’s meeting. Interlocutors referred to the positive climate for progress in Macedonia, as well as the possibility for expert support from Slovakia in the EU accession negotiations, the […]
Vice Premier for European Affairs Bujar Osmani met Monday with French Ambassador Christian Thimonier on occasion of the formal inclusion of French technical expert Francois Lafond as a full member of the Secretariat for European Affairs. Vice Premier Osmani thanked France for the sincere support to Macedonia, highlighting its importance as Union member-state in the […]
Macedonia’s road to EU and NATO needs to be unblocked, says Munich Security Conference (MSC) chairman, ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger. “Macedonia’s road to EU and NATO needs to be unblocked – long overdue”, wrote Ischinger’s on Twitter. The MSC chairman replied to a Twitter post by Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, who said Macedonia has been a […]
Early plans for a European army failed in the wake of World War II. EU states have since taken numerous small steps to integrate their armed forces, bringing the idea of a Europe-wide military ever closer to reality. Military treaties for a joint European army were signed just a few years after the end of […]
Macedonia’s Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi and Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev agreed Saturday that the bilateral friendship treaty opens new possibilities in the relations between the two countries and demonstrates Sofia’s commitment to support Skopje’s efforts to join the European Union and NATO. Xhaferi commended Bulgaria’s support of the Western Balkan countries’ accession to the EU […]
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker on Saturday underscored the importance of offering countries in the Western Balkans the prospect of EU membership, but insisted they must resolve all border disputes before joining the bloc, Reuters reports. “There are many border disputes in the West Balkans and they must be resolved before we can go a […]
European Union foreign ministers disagreed on Thursday over a proposal by the bloc’s executive to push for expansion into the Western Balkans, a region still scarred by ethnic wars fought in the 1990s and dogged by a reputation for lawlessness. Meeting in Bulgaria, the EU ministers discussed for the first time the plan by the […]
NATO defense ministers gathered for talks Wednesday amid US concerns over the EU’s landmark defense cooperation pact and increasingly strained relations between Washington and Turkey, AFP reports. Washington and Ankara, two of the transatlantic alliance’s most important members, are at loggerheads over Turkey’s military offensive in northern Syria, which US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson […]
Majority of citizens (53.5 percent) believe Macedonia cannot join the EU and NATO unless the constitutional name is changed, while 27.5 percent of respondents say such option is viable, show results of the poll by the Institute for Political Research Skopje (IPIS). Over a third of respondents (38.2%) would accept a change of the constitutional name […]
