VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski in an interview on the “Top Tema” show on Telma TV, commenting on the statements on obtaining a possible date for the start of negotiations with the European Union in December, as well as the statements of Nikola Dimitrov on obtaining a date in January, said that he insists on getting a date to happen in December because the citizens of Macedonia deserve to get that long-awaited date, emphasizing that Brussels should not play with the feelings of the citizens.

It cannot be in January. It may be in December and I insist it be in December because the people and citizens of Macedonia, regardless of Macedonians, Albanians, Turks, Vlacs, Serbs, Bosniaks, etc., have done enough in the past 30 years to get that desired and deserved date, and we deserve, as a people, as citizens, to start this process. Because if someone continuously plays with the feelings of this people, the citizens of Macedonia, then we will always find some way to obstruct it. But I think that this time it is necessary for Europe to finally stand behind the interests of this people, who many times in the past stood behind the interests of Europe and European values ​​and to give that long-awaited date for the start of negotiations. Then let them leave us to equip ourselves, to start negotiations with the European Union because we deserve it, Mickoski emphasized.