Everything is good on paper, but there is no implementation, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said in Saturday’s interview with TV Kanal 5. He said that Macedonia did not get a date for opening accession negotiations, because there are no reforms in the country, and the EU report as much as being crystal clear until now, as the government presents it, contains serious criticism.

We heard the statement of Ambassador Thimonier, we know what he said about the reforms, let me remind you of the zero that German Business Association gave to the Government for doing business in the Republic of Macedonia. I think there is no need to say more, said Mickoski.

The atmosphere in which politics and democracy function is bad, there is no rule of law.

Everything that we speak here is also spoken by our partners from the international community, said Miskoski, adding that VMRO-DPMNE should go along its own channels and lobby Macedonia to get a date for negotiations because SDSM and the government do not do it.

Mickoski confirmed the statement of vice-president Aleksandar Nikoloski that there is an agreement between Bujar Osmani and Ditmir Bushati to slow down the reforms in Macedonia so that Albania can reach it and then to join the European Union in a package.