Bulgarian lawmakers are on Friday set to make a major step towards lifting Sofia’s efficient veto over North Macedonia starting membership negotiations with the EU.
MPs will vote in a plenary session on whether or not to throw their weight behind a proposal by the French presidency of the Council to resolve the deadlock between Sofia and Skopje.
Bulgaria has been holding again North Macedonia’s EU aspirations in a long-running dispute over language, historical past and the rights of the Bulgarian minority in North Macedonia.
The lack to resolve this cross-border dispute sparked fury amongst Balkan leaders assembly in Brussels on Thursday, who fulminated towards Sofia holding again their EU prospects.
In a peculiar twist, North Macedonia itself doesn’t help this so-called “French proposal” on the coronary heart of Friday’s vote in Sofia, however it will be a extremely vital political U-turn if Bulgaria’s parliament had been capable of drop its blocking place.
“The proposal of the French presidency creates extra favorable circumstances for defending Bulgarian nationwide pursuits within the accession negotiations than all of the choices supplied thus far,” Bulgaria’s outgoing International Minister Teodora Genchovska was quoted as saying by the Mediapool information service.
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