Friday, April 26, 2024
Is the end of the absurd Bulgarian blockade for the start of accession negotiations between Macedonia and the European Union approaching, reports Croatian newspaper "Vecernji List", which in the article opens the possibility for Sofia to unblock Skopje under pressure from Brussels on June 21. Although so far there is...
Presidents of Croatia, Austria and Slovenia, Zoran Milanovic, Alexander Van der Bellen and Borut Pahor respectively, held the eighth annual trilateral meeting at Slovenia’s Kostanjevica na Krki on Thursday, focusing on the Conference on the Future of Europe, recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the European perspective of the...
Diplomat Angela Price Aggeler has been confirmed as the new US ambassador to North Macedonia, the Democratic majority in the Senate tweeted on Friday. Aggeler will replace Kate Mary Byrnes, who has served as the US ambassador to Skopje since 2019. Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing...
The United States urges the European Union to finally start negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania because it considers EU credible policy to be of US strategic interest. This, according to the Serbian public service broadcaster RTS, citing unnamed diplomatic sources, could be said by US President Joseph Biden at...
Minister of Defense Radmila Shekerinska and the Ambassador of the United States of America Kate Marie Byrnes will sign an agreement between North Macedonia and the United States, which supports the respect of human rights in the operation of security forces. The agreement stems from the so-called Leahy Laws, which...
"A lot of butterness: Prime Minister of North Macedonia regrets the blockade of Bulgaria in the EU," is the headline of an article published Saturday by Agence France-Presse (AFP) following an interview with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in Skopje. Zoran Zaev said that the Bulgarian veto of Macedonia’s EU accession...
The German EU Presidency has a clear goal regarding the enlargement process – the first intergovernmental conference with North Macedonia by the end of the year, said German Ambassador Anke Holstein on Wednesday. Ambassador Holstein told reporters “it would be a failure” if the country did not start the EU...
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, has died from the consequences of coronavirus infection. Patriarch Irinej died shortly after 7am on Friday at the Army Medical Centre in Belgrade where he was admitted on November 4 after testing positive for the novel virus. He was 90. On...
During his annual address, Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama spoke about the country's integration process, assessing that Albania has become a hostage in the process after the Bulgarian veto on Macedonia. “In the EU integration process, things are clear and we are in an absurd situation due to the...
Bulgarian customs officers found more than 33kg of cannabis worth 69,000 euros in a vehicle driven by a citizen of Macedonia. According to BTA, the Kia vehicle with Macedonian license plates was stopped at the border crossing between the two countries on December 23 when customs officers, during control, found...