Saturday, May 18, 2024
Changing the Preamble of the Macedonian Constitution is a guarantee for the start of the new phase of North Macedonia’s EU negotiation process, said the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the country, Dirk Jan Kop, in an interview with Radio Free Europe. Despite Bulgaria's threats of a...
De facto recognition of Kosovo by Serbia this is how Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti evaluates the unsigned agreement in Ohrid, for which he accused Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučič. Kurti said it was now up to the EU to find mechanisms to force Serbia to sign the deal. "The basic...
The NATO-led international security mission KFOR has rejected a request by official Belgrade to return Serbian security forces to the territory of the former southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija, which unilaterally declared independence in 2008 with the support of the West, Serbian President AleksandarVučić announced on Sunday...
European Council President Charles Michel said Tuesday that having set 2030 as the date by which the EU and the Western Balkans must be ready for enlargement was a realistic but ambitious goal, noting that this was the first time in the European history that a European institutional leader...
Bulgaria is destroying large quantities of doses of vaccines against COVID-19 that have expired and does not plan to replenish the stocks, the Bulgarian interim Minister of Health Asen Medzhdiev said on Sunday. "Right now, there are no people that are getting vaccinated", said the interim health minister in an...
Macedonian Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani in a Twitter post on Tuesday underscored the need to abide by the international community’s Roadmap for de-escalation, reminding that the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) is tasked with providing a safe and secure environment in the northern municipalities. “In my capacity as Minister...
The U.S. special representative for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, said that the focus is not on signing, but on finalizing the annex for the implementation of the Agreement on the Normalization of Relations between Kosovo and Serbia. According to him, Ohrid is a chance today for Serbia and...
Between Bulgaria and North Macedonia there is a mechanism that should contribute to reducing tensions and to identifying the occurrences of hatred, which is clearly stated in the Protocol signed last year by the ministries of foreign affairs of the two countries, but it is not being implemented, says...
The Bulgarian MEP and co-president of VMRO-BND Angel Dzhambazki attended today in Skopje the commemoration of the 95th death anniversary of the Macedonian revolutionary Mara Buneva, during which flowers were laid on her memorial on the Vardar quay. Dzhambazki, speaking through a megaphone, addressed hundreds of supporters of Buneva’s work,...
The vision for the European Union should be enriched with the countries of the Western Balkans, Ukraine and Moldova, reads the Joint Declaration adopted at the end of the informal meeting of the leaders of the European Union with the representatives of the countries of the Western Balkans, Ukraine...