Macedonia

The EU will almost certainly not extend a start date for Macedonia’s accession talks at tomorrow’s European Council summit in Brussels, thus effectively putting the country’s EU bid on hold until it solves the name row with Greece.

The time for setting date for start of accession talks with Macedonia has come, Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar said ahead of the EU foreign ministers meeting.

The mediator in the Skopje-Athens “name” dispute, Matthew Nimetz, is in contact with both parties, and he will set a fresh meeting if and when he sees appropriate, the UN press office said on Friday. “Ambassador Nimetz is in very frequent contact with both parties, but he will not be …

Serbian President Boris Tadić and his Macedonian counterpart Gjorge Ivanov said that increasing the speed of the region’s European integration is a priority. They also said that this is a key condition for long-term stability and peace in the region.

The President of the European Court for Human Rights Jean-Paul Costa will visit Macedonia today. President Costa will make an address to the regional conference of constitutional judges on the theme “Independence of Constitutional Judges”, to be held in the city of Ohrid on June 10-13. The President of the …

Macedonian leadership should focus on the reward and that’s a solid future within NATO and EU, US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg told Voice of America. Commenting the name dispute with Greece, Steinberg said the United States would fully support courageous decision-making by the Macedonian leadership.

If a solution to the Athens-Skopje name spat is not found soon, Macedonia’s EU and NATO integration could be delayed for a longer period, Macedonian opposition leader Branko Crvenkovski said in an interview on Sunday.

Setting a date for Macedonia’s EU accession talks will double the country’s enthusiasm for adopting reforms, Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki told media on Thursday. Milososki made the remarks after a regular meeting of Macedonian government officials

Serbian government delegation, led by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladjan Dinkic, will arrive in Macedonia on Wednesday for an official visit. Deputy Prime Minister Dinkic will hold a meeting with his host – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Vladimir Pesevski.

The process of Euro-Atlantic integration should be intensified and include all countries in the region, according to participants attending a regional conference on NATO integration that began on Monday (May 31st) in Bitola. Some of the ministers said that unless Macedonia and Kosovo are admitted to NATO and unless remaining …