Deputy PM for European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov told an online meeting with the ambassadors of EU member countries to Macedonia that adoption of the negotiating framework and the first intergovernmental conference, expected to take place by the end of the year, will wrap up the country’s historic achievements after being approved to open EU accession talks and joining NATO. He underlined that the EU’s values and principles depend on how the bloc will treat the right to self-determination of the Macedonian nation.
“How the European Union will handle this matter – the right of the Macedonian nation to self-determination – will determine whether we could continue to perceive the Union as a community of values and principles,” Dimitrov stated regarding the challenges the country is facing ahead of holding the first intergovernmental conference.
