My meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest in late July was with the goal to lobby for Macedonia to be allowed to open EU accession talks, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski. He told Alsat TV that despite the negative propaganda coming from pro-Government circles over the meeting, its goal was to help Macedonia, given that it was already known Hungary may get the enlargement portfolio in the EU.
Nobody asked me why I went to see Viktor Orban, they only cared about spinning the meeting in the press. We went to seek support and we will continue to do so. Macedonia likely never had such a friend as we’ll have in the new enlargement commissioner Laszlo Trocsanyi. We need to focus our energy in that direction, Mickoski said.
Mickoski announced that he will call on other EPP parties not to punish the Macedonian citizens, despite the major corruption scandal that is unfolding.
Mickoski said that he doesn’t believe Macedonia will be shut out for as long as Zaev is Prime Minister, but added that he is making Macedonia’s position very difficult.
The enlargement process was started 20 years ago under one Government, another made us a candidate country, a third received a positive recommendation.. The only thing Zoran Zaev did is to sell out everything which all previous Governments wouldn’t dream of giving away, Mickoski said.
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