TIRANA, August 28 – Bulgaria remains in the same position as regards North Macedonia, that it must fulfill its obligations to the European Union in connection with the necessity for constitutional changes, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, Nikolai Denkov, said in an interview for the Sofia newspaper “24 hours”.
The constitutional changes, which are in the parliamentary procedure in North Macedonia, provide for the inclusion of the Bulgarian minority as a state-forming people in the preamble of the Constitution.
This is the main condition that Skopje must fulfill, otherwise Sofia retains the right of veto which it used in November 2020, blocking the talks between North Macedonia and the EU, according to REL.
The Bulgarian Prime Minister, Nikolai Denkov, said that after the approval of the “French proposal” for the settlement of disputes between the two countries, the talks should continue between North Macedonia and the EU.
The constitutional changes are opposed by the Macedonian opposition which claims that “the inclusion of the Bulgarian minority in the Constitution does not mean the end of the demands of the Bulgarian diktat”.
The head of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, in an interview with the Belgrade newspaper “Politika”, accused the Macedonian diplomacy of “not fighting for better positions and guarantees that there will be no new obstacles on the path of integration European.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bujar Osmani, has told the Macedonian news agency, MIA, that he is convinced that the process for constitutional changes in the country will be completed successfully in the coming weeks or months. /argumentum.al
