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For the fifth night in a row, a protest organized by the VMRO-DPMNE of Hristijan Mickoski and the pro-Russian Left of Dimitar Apasiev took place in Skopje against the French proposal to start negotiations for membership of North Macedonia in the EU
“If North Macedonia does not accept the French proposal, Albania will continue alone on the path to European integration. I think that is only right, but I hope that this will not be necessary”, said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte after his meeting with
Another evening of protests in Skopje against the French proposal to start negotiations for the Republic of North Macedonia for membership in the European Union. Tensions rose after about 30 hooded demonstrators began throwing bombs and hard objects at th
Four police officers were injured during the anti-Bulgarian demonstrations on Monday evening in Skopje
Offensive and vulgar chants against the European Union and Bulgaria were heard last night during the second protest in front of the Macedonian government building against the French proposal to start negotiations for the Republic of North Macedonia for EU
“The Macedonian language issue has been resolved and all lies related to it must be dismantled”. This was said at a press conference in Skopje by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RNM Bujar Osmani
At a symbolic ceremony, French President Emmanuel Macron handed over the rotating EU presidency, which ends today at midnight, to Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala
The Speaker of the Parliament of North Macedonia Talat Xhaferi did not put to the vote the proposal of the coordinator of the parliamentary group of VMRO-DPMNE Nikola Mitseski, who asked at yesterday's parliamentary session to consider the issue of negoti
A fight between Macedonian lawmakers took place during a debate in the parliamentary Committee on European Affairs
“North Macedonia is in constant communication with France and Bulgaria in order to reach a proposal that takes into account all sensitive topics”, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said on TV21
“The creation of the Serbian world is a process that cannot be stopped”, said Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin
“It is not Bulgaria's veto that has blocked the start of Albania's negotiations with the European Union, but the degradation of democracy and the failure of Edi Rama's government to meet the conditions”
The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Northern Macedonia, Bujar Osmani, expressed the position that the vote in the Bulgarian Parliament today will block the long-term European enlargement process and paralyze the Good Neighbour Agreement between the Re
“You are a complete mess. Shame! Today is a good day in Europe, but not in Bulgaria.” This final assessment of the Albanian Prime Minister that there was no decision to lift the Bulgarian veto at the European Union-Western Balkans meeting today was repeat
The proposal of the French Presidency is unacceptable in this version for the Republic of North Macedonia”
The French presidency's proposal to resolve the dispute shook the Macedonian government after three small parties threatened to leave if the cabinet approved a draft sent to the Bulgarian parliament to end the dispute between Skopje and Sofia
I advised Prime Minister Kovachevski not to go to the summit in Brussels just to take pictures and to endure the humiliation of Bulgaria
The leader of the Macedonian opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, said that if Bulgaria's demands are included in the EU's negotiating framework for membership, Skopje would be better off refusing to apply to the Union
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has said he does not expect next week's EU summit to pave the way for his country to start EU membership talks, blaming Bulgaria
“Ankara is solely responsible for escalating tensions between Greece and Turkey”, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview with state-run ERT television
Lambe Alabakovski, detained for setting fire to the “Ivan Mihailov” cultural center in Bitola, is free today, BGNES reports. At this stage, the only measure against him is the revocation of his passport
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