The EU General Affairs Council (GAC) will hold a regular meeting on Tuesday, with enlargement and the accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania on the agenda, MIA reports from Brussels.
Gasper Dovzan, State Secretary at the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who chairs the meeting, has reiterated his country’s...
Former Bulgarian Prime Minister and GERB leader Boyko Borissov has accused President and second-term candidate Rumen Radev of destroying Bulgaria’s relations with its neighbors in just one week.
According to Borissov, one of the most beloved countries in the Balkans, Bulgaria now quarrels with all its neighbors and hates Macedonia...
The bilateral dispute between Sofia and Skopje should be resolved so that North Macedonia can start accession negotiations with the European Union by the end of this year, according to twelve Members of the United States Congress in a letter to the Bulgarian Ambassador to the US.
In the letter...
Daniel Lorer from the coalition Change Continues, who is most likely to take on the post of Foreign Minister in the new Bulgarian government, told BTV radio that 14 December is not a realistic deadline for reaching a full agreement with Macedonia.
According to Lorer, positive results can’t be achieved...
Kiril Petkov, co-president of We Continue the Change coalition that won the Bulgarian parliamentary elections, said in an interview for BNT that Bulgaria and North Macedonia should form work groups not only consisting of historians but also people from the spheres of business, culture and education.
According to MIA’s Sofia...
The U.S. Government highlighted the recent donation of $400,000 worth of equipment and supplies for Macedonia’s COVID-19 response and announced $2.7 million in new COVID-19 assistance for the country. This brings the total U.S. government COVID-19 assistance to the country to more than $9.2 million since the start of...
Greece introduced new measures making COVID-19 documents mandatory nearly everywhere in Greece. They are scanned via a special app, but the app doesn’t recognize certificates issued by third countries. This has caused problems over the weekend for tourists from Macedonia, Serbia, Singapore, the US and other countries that aren’t...
The United States expects to continue cooperating with North Macedonia in areas of common interest, the US State Department told VOA’s Macedonian Service, when asked to comment on the resignation of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev after Sunday’s runoff local elections.
“The US Embassy is monitoring developments following the second round...
The results of the local elections in Macedonia showed that our brothers are voting stubbornly there, without a clear perspective, as in Bulgaria. This is not strange given the indisputable fact that we are one nation. However, such a vote is simply a protest, not a solution to problems....
U.S. diplomacy and EU partners are exhibiting double standards towards Bulgaria but this will not alter positions in bilateral relations and one cannot expect Sofia to make concessions under outside pressure, says Angel Dimitrov, co-chair of the Bulgaria- Macedonia joint commission for historical and educational issues and former Bulgarian...