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Mickoski is more optimistic about North Macedonia’s EU integration after the Berlin Process summit

by AI | 17.Oct 2024 | Europe in brief AI

We will continue to solve problems at home, but we will fight outside with all the forces we have at our disposal, based on the Copenhagen criteria, based on the true values of the EU, which are not ultimatums and dictates, but conversation, constructive dialogue, which will be the basis for finding a lasting and long-term solution with which no one will be humiliated, but on the contrary, we will all fight together to defend these true European values, the Prime Minister pointed out.

Press conference of Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski Photo: MIA

Skopje – Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski is more optimistic regarding the expectations for the country’s Euro-integration process after participating in the Berlin Process Summit and after the meetings held, and he is in a dilemma about whether to send the announced letter to the European Union, which will offer new ideas for continuing the negotiations.

– We had a visit that made me more optimistic than I was before the visit. On the sidelines during the working lunch, but also other meetings I had there, I see that there are initiatives, which the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock also mentioned at the press conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade Timco Mucunski, and I think that everything I led as a conversation and got as a message and sent has added value when compared to the situation before my visit there, said Mickoski.

He did not want to comment on the briefing of the German Government’s Special Representative for the Western Balkans, Manuel Saracin, that the Macedonian proposals were rejected in Berlin, repeating that he is much more optimistic after the visit to Berlin than he was previously.

– We will continue to solve the problems at home, but we will fight abroad with all the forces we have at our disposal, based on the Copenhagen Criteria, based on the true values of the EU, and these are not ultimatums and dictates, but conversation, constructive dialogue, which will be the basis for finding a permanent and long-term solution where no one will be humiliated, but rather we will all fight together to defend these true European values, emphasized the Prime Minister.

Regarding the announced letter to the European Union, he emphasized that after the visit to Brussels, he has a dilemma about whether to send it since he has acquainted everyone with its content.

– Considering that the President of the Commission is coming on October 24, we had the opportunity in Berlin unofficially at the lunch to talk and on the sidelines of the Berlin Process Summit and with Chancellor Scholz I had an informal meeting, which was very friendly and substantial, pointed out Mickoski. (October 16)