With France likely to veto the opening of European Union accession talks with Macedonia, VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Antonio Milososki sent an open question to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who recently bragged that he has hired an adviser who is close to French President Emmanuel Macron, and to his ministers.

Zaev insisted that his adviser Ljupco Zafirovski has good contacts with the French President’s office, and will work to lift the French veto threat. Zaev dispatched his deputy in charge of EU affairs Bujar Osmani and his Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov to Paris to plead with the French Government not to block Macedonia’s accession talks.

Dear Bujar Osmani and Nikola Dimitrov, please tell me how many of your meetings in Paris did Zaev’s adviser Ljupco Zafirovski attend? He is paid 1.200 EUR per month – more then you are. Did he enable some of your meetings with advisers of President Macron?, Milososki asked Zaev’s duo which was dispatched to Paris.

Zaev hoped that, with all the concessions he made toward Greece and Bulgaria, opening of the EU accession talks will be a mere formality, but opposition from France, the Netherlands, Denmark, and now even from the ruling German conservative parties has ended Zaev’s hopes to open accession talks in June and put his rule in jeopardy.