Northern Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev at the Economic Forum in Skopje today has said that delays in EU enlargement and non-liberalisation of visas for Kosovo are against its European Union idea.

Zaev has said the goal is to remove stops at the border between Serbia, Northern Macedonia and Albania, while hoping to join other countries, including Kosovo.

“We cannot expect all internal problems of the European Union to be solved, so that we, citizens now and our economy can move forward. The EU's failure to fulfil promises to hold the first intergovernmental conference with Albania and Northern Macedonia and to open the first clasters with Montenegro and Serbia, as well as visa liberalisation for Kosovo, is against the EU idea”, Zaev said, among other things. What we build today comes out of European values because in itself it contains all four freedoms of the European Union. Freedom of movement of people, goods, capital and services”.

The ultimate goal is to reach “stop-just go”, not have stops at the borders between Serbia, Northern Macedonia, Albania, and hope for other countries as well. The initiative is open to all Western Balkan countries, so we invite and encourage our colleagues to unite because of our peoples. We are all Western and European Balkans. Let's create a vision of real development to benefit all our citizens” /Alsat