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Nikolovski: No one is naive enough to enter Bulgaria’s game of endless conditions and vetoes

by AI | 13.Dec 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The last politician who was honest about the process, unlike these others who are dishonest, was Jean-Claude Juncker, who was the President of the European Commission. He was honest enough to tell us all that there would be no enlargement, says Nikoloski.

Aleksandar Nikolovski, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport of North Macedonia. Photo: MIA

Skopje, – No one is naive to enter Bulgaria’s game of endless conditions and vetoes, but the problem is slightly bigger than what is presented in public, and that is the strategic decision of the big member states, which has been such for more than ten years not to have an expansion, says the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Vice-President of VMRO-DPMNE, Aleksandar Nikoloski.

– The benefit of waiting is preserving national pride. No one is naive to enter Bulgaria’s game of endless conditions and endless vetoes. If this is the last thing to discuss, and if it’s not last, we are not naive to suffer and have problems once again. And I think that I have often talked about this publicly and I stand behind the fact that the problem is slightly bigger than what is presented to the public, and the problem is the strategic decision of the big member states which, unfortunately, has been such for more than ten years to not have an expansion. The last politician who was honest regarding the process and these others who are dishonest was corrected by Jean-Claude Juncker, who was the President of the EC. He was honest enough to tell us all that there will be no expansion, says Nikoloski in a guest appearance on “Only Interview” on Kanal 5 television, asked what we are gaining as a country by not entering formal negotiations with the EU at the moment.

He pointed out the situation with other countries that are in the process of joining the EU. – You see what’s happening to Serbia. Serbia got a veto. For Albania, Greece is already announcing a veto. Montenegro is negotiating, we’ve forgotten since when. Turkey is negotiating, we’ve forgotten since when. Everything is clear, thinks Nikoloski.

During the mandates of the previous two European Commissioners for Enlargement, there was no admission of new members, and he is not convinced by the promises of the new European Commissioner Marta Kos that the EU for the first time has a real approach by which, by the end of the mandate of the current European Commission, one or more candidate countries for membership could be admitted. (December 12)