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Mickoski: We are working on a daily basis with our allies to unblock the Euro integration process

by AI | 20.Nov 2024 | Europe in brief AI

I will say it again, we work on a daily basis with our allies. If we are not present there, it does not mean we are not working. We are talking with everyone on the phone. Absolutely everyone. Have no doubt about that. Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mucunski, is currently there and as the first country from the region, we are signing an Agreement with the High Representative, Mr. Borrell, for security and military cooperation with the EU.

Press conference of Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski Photo: MIA

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Skopje – Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski reaffirmed the position that diplomatic efforts to unblock the country’s Eurointegration continue and that the only acceptable solution for the Government is constitutional amendments with delayed effect.

– I will say it again, we are working on a daily basis with our allies. If we are not present there, it does not mean that we are not working. We are talking on the phone with everyone. Absolutely with everyone. You should have no doubts here. Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mucunski, is there, and as the first country from the region, we are signing an Agreement with the High Representative, Mr. Borrell, for security and military cooperation with the EU. We will be the first to receive the tranche from the Growth Plan, we were the first to finish what stood for seven years, idled, only waving flags and robbing the state, now it has been unblocked, and now we are the first again and will continue to be first and will continue in the future. We have a clear principled position based on arguments. We have argued this position in front of all world authorities. And European, in front of all. There is no one who has not heard our position. And nowhere did we hear from them that those arguments are not good, those arguments are wrong, etc. We will work, it will not be easy. Unfortunately, for seven years, external politics was exhibitionism and selling out so they could steal and undermine at home. They thought that in this way they would get permission, everything is forgiven at home, but the people do not forgive, and we saw that on May 8, said Mickoski in response to a journalist’s question about the comment on the statement of the European Commissioner for  Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, who yesterday referred to the EP on the progress for the Western Balkans countries, and for our country, repeated the condition for constitutional amendments.

Prime Minister Mickoski announced that he will also be in Brussels twice in December, at the invitation of the new High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy of the EU, Antonio Costa, on December 3, and at the EU and Western Balkans Summit, on December 18 or 19, at which meetings he will once again present the country’s arguments.

– And we will fight again. I don’t know if we will succeed. You see what is happening with our eastern neighbor. Three – four times they cannot elect a President of the Assembly. I can’t guarantee, because it would be naive and irresponsible for us to guarantee. But I can guarantee that I will give everything I have and we will fight to the last atom of energy we have to succeed in doing something for the country, said Mickoski. 

Asked with which EU countries he spoke regarding the delayed effect of constitutional amendments, he pointed to a bilateral meeting with Chancellor Scholz, with French President Macron, with the President of the EC, Ursula von der Leyen. (November 19)

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