Zaev warns government decline if doesn't get date for start negotiations

At a meeting with reporters in Brussels, Zaev has said that the eventual delay in the decision in the German parliament and, as a result, the prolonging of the date for the start of negotiations jeopardises the reinforcement of nationalist powers and the loss of the majority in the Parliament. Even the Government's reconstruction process, according to the prime minister, depends on the decision on the date.

If they decide not to give us a date, the government will likely fall. This stable government, with all these positive decisions, is likely immediately to lose most in the Assembly. That is because MPs were promised that they would certainly make a positive decision from the EU if we move forward. It means that citizens will be encouraged to support nationalism, radicalism and that it is neither good for our country nor the region. They are options and we are afraid of that variant”, Zaev said.

Eurocommeri for enlargement Johannes Han on a working morning with ambassadors of EU member states has attempted to promote positive decision on granting consent to North Macedonia start negotiations on membership.

Until right now, there are no details from the meeting. When we are separated about two weeks from the meeting of the member states' foreign ministers, their final position for Northern Macedonia is not yet known. The previous day of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's meeting in Brussels appears to have changed nothing.

“More EU member states refuse to start negotiations with Albania and Northern Macedonia”, writes Austrian newspaper “Die Presse”, which continues that the first “, France and the Netherlands strongly oppose the start of negotiations on both countries”

European Commission President Jeane Claudi Juncker after the Zaev meeting acknowledged that some countries are still opposed to opening negotiations now, Alsat-M broadcasts.

I know some member states have concerns. I'll do everything that's in my power to convince them” stressed Juncker, president of the European Commission.

Juncker, however, had stressed that according to objective facts, North Macedonia is ready for the next step. With eurocomer Han, they had also met representatives of VMRO- The DPMNE, which had voiced concerns about the functioning of institutions in the country and the impasse of reforms, had, in turn, sought the start of membership negotiations.