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Analyses | | Marta Szpala, Mateusz Seroka

Bulgaria blocks accession negotiations with North Macedonia

Due to objections from Bulgaria, the EU Council did not adopt the conclusions on the enlargement policy, including the negotiating framework with North Macedonia and Albania proposed by the European Commission (EC) in December this year.
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

North Macedonia decides to hold a snap parliamentary election

Following negotiations with leaders of parliamentary groupings and President Stevo Pendarovski, Zoran Zaev, the prime minister of North Macedonia, announced on 20 October that a compromise on scheduling a snap parliamentary election had…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia a dispute inside the EU

On 15 October, the General Affairs Council (GAC), a body functioning within the Council of the European Union, was unable to reach a compromise on accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania. France and most likely also the…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala, Ryszarda Formuszewicz

EU split over enlargement policy

On 18th June the Council of the European Union again postponed the decision to open accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia. Procedural questions linked with Germany’s failure to take a position were the official reason for…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Macedonia Parliament votes to change the countrys name

On 11 January, a two-thirds majority in the Macedonian parliament adopted amendments to the constitution, which provide for a change in the name of the state to the Republic of Northern Macedonia. Members of the VMRO-DPMNE opposition…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Hungary asylum for ex-prime minister of Macedonia

Nikola Gruevski, who served as the prime minister of Macedonia in 2006–2016, fled his country at the beginning of November and submitted a request for asylum in Hungary, which was granted. The former prime minister, whose passport was…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Referendum in Macedonia without a conclusive outcome

A consultative referendum was held on 30 September in the Republic of Macedonia on integration into the EU and NATO, and an agreement with Greece changing the constitutional name of the country to the Republic of North Macedonia. 91.5% of…
Analyses | | Jan Strzelecki

Tensions between Greece and Russia with Macedonia in the background

In recent weeks there has been a cooling in the traditionally friendly relations between Greece and Russia.
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

A Greek-Macedonian compromise Chances for ending the dispute

On 12 June, the prime ministers of Greece and of Macedonia announced that a compromise solution had been developed on the subject of the name of the latter state.
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Macedonia A new beginning in relations with Greece

The prime ministers of Macedonia and Greece met on 24 January in Davos for the first time since 2010.