Tag: eea
Macedonia 18.02.21 | 10:49

Knaus: Huge mistake that Pendarovski refused EEA membership, Macedonia thus moved away from the single market and investments

Gerald Knaus from the European Stability Initiative pointed out last night on the “Zaspij ako mozes” show that President Stevo Pendarovski made a mistake by refusing Macedonia to join the EEA. According to Knaus, that refusal now costs the country a lot, and the citizens feel it the most. I...

Macedonia 15.01.21 | 15:26

Pendarovski now supports joining the EEA, but only as a step toward full EU membership

President Pendarovski reversed his position that Macedonia needs to reject membership in the European Economic Area. In an interview with the state run MIA news agency, Pendarovski said that Macedonia can accept membership in the EEA, but only if that doesn’t detract from full EU membership. Pendarovski...

Macedonia 14.01.21 | 16:09

German officials raise the prospect of EEA membership for Balkan countries – instead of full EU membership

The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) paper quotes a politician close to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, stating that it would be more realistic for Balkan countries to ask for membership in the European Economic Area, rather than the European Union. The paper has raised the issue of closer...

Macedonia 09.12.20 | 21:00

Milososki: We warned Zaev that the 2017 treaty will only make our relations with Bulgaria worse

VMRO-DPMNE official Antonio Milososki said that the party warned Zoran Zaev, early in his term in office, that signing the 2017 treaty will Boyko Borisov will lead to serious problems with Macedonia’s relations to Bulgaria. This blockade is no surprise. In july 2017, a month before the signing of the...

Macedonia 09.12.20 | 10:02

Why Pendarovski didn’t inform the Parliament that he had received an offer for EEA membership?

Pendarovski made a huge mistake refusing the offer for membership in the EEA, comments the MP Antonio Milososki. According to him, the EEA offers participation in the single free market, and offers the “four freedoms” of movement of capital, people, goods and services with the EU, and Norway,...

Macedonia 08.12.20 | 21:05

EEA – good enough for Norway and Britain, but not for Macedonia?

President Pendarovski apparently did not expect that he will create such a stir in the public, when he flippantly revealed that Macedonia was offered membership in the European Economic Area, but that he said no. The position that nothing short of full EU membership will do is officially established,...

Macedonia 07.12.20 | 17:03

Pendarovski: Macedonia has refused alternative forms of European integration that fall short of full EU membership

President Stevo Pendarovski said that Macedonia was offered joining the European Economic Area (EEA) but refused because it insists on full fledged EU membership. The EEA includes countries who have no intention to join the EU, such as Norway and Switzerland, in the same economic regime that the EU has. Some...