VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski met with the EU Ambassador to Macedonia David Geer to discuss the growing dispute with Bulgaria which vetoed the opening of Macedonia’s EU accession talks. Mickoski said the conditioning of a country’s progress toward the EU on the basis of its language, identity and history is not in line with European values.

Macedonia has the right to its own identity markers, Mickoski said, according to the party’s press release.

The opposition leader and the EU Ambassador agreed that Macedonia needs to conduct the reforms necessary for EU membership. Mickoski warned that his is difficult given the “chaos in the country created by Zoran Zaev, who cares more about his political ratings and businesses than for the public interest”.

For one, the mismanagement of the healthcare crisis is evident in the enormous number of deceased patients and infections, and in the near collapse of the healthcare system. We welcome the support from our European partners in this regard, Mickoski told Ambassador Geer.

He called on the European Union to pay additional attention to the numerous corruption scandals and the lack of will on the part of the Government to fight crime and corruption, in fact “the Government is protecting crime”, Mickoski said.