Премьер-министр Северной Македонии Мицкоски заявил, что его страну «давят» на пути к членству в ЕС

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Премьер-министр Северной Македонии Мицкоски заявил, что его страну «давят» на пути к членству в ЕС  После более чем двух десятилетий ожидания членства в ЕС Северная Македония надеется, что это ожидание наконец закончится, поскольку премьер-министр Мицкоски сообщил Euronews, что присоединение его страны было отложено из-за «искусственных споров».  ЧИТАТЬ ДАЛЕЕ : http://ru.euronews.com/2025/11/10/premer-ministr-severnoj-makedonii-mickoski-zayavil-chto-ego-stranu-davyat-na-puti-k-chlens  Подписывайтесь: Euronews можно смотреть на Dailymotion на 12 языках

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01:38So it's not about fulfilling recommendations and Copenhagen criteria.

01:43You're calling them artificial.

01:45How does it make you feel knowing that for over two decades officially in the candidate's status,

01:50yet again there is more and more roadblocks?

01:54We do believe that our future is in the European Union.

01:58We are a part of the European continent.

02:00And we do believe that integration of Western Balkans in the EU means added value for the EU itself.

02:09And this means reunification on a sort of way of the European continent.

02:17And I do think that the future of my country and the future of my nation, Macedonians, is within the European Union.

02:25And therefore, despite all those humiliations and disappointments, and despite the current frustration which is inside of our citizens,

02:35we do share the same values.

02:37Let's talk a little more in detail about some of those.

02:41Right after finding an arrangement with Greece, you then faced a veto from Bulgaria.

02:48And this is the current situation.

02:50This issue of unanimity and then the vetoes, obviously, is a very important conversation.

02:55And do you know exactly how long it can take?

02:59We know what unanimity means for us and what type of sacrifice we've did in the past.

03:09But nevertheless, this is a past.

03:11I would like to talk about the current situation.

03:16When there was a press agreement on the table and when this name issue was on the table,

03:25a lot of people from all over the world came into our capital in Skopje trying to convince us that,

03:32look, you are the frontrunners in the region.

03:36You are far, far ahead compared with the other countries from the Western Balkans.

03:40If immediately when you will provide solution for this dispute, then probably immediately you've become a member of NATO

03:48and it will take probably four or five years and you will become a member of the EU.

03:55Those four or five years expired two years ago.

03:58And we are at the same place where we were two and a half decades ago.

04:03Why? Because now a new hurdle, new constraint is in front of us.

04:08Again, change of a constitution.

04:11We need to add into the preambula of our constitution, which is a descriptive part of our constitution,

04:20a part of Bulgarian people which are living in our country.

04:26And according to the last census data, we are talking about a couple of hundred people.

04:31We are not talking about millions.

04:33We are not talking about hundreds of thousands of people.

04:36We are talking about literally a couple of hundred people,

04:39which declared during the last census that their mother tongue is Bulgarian language.

04:47But however, citizens of my country, full of frustration, are asking me,

04:53OK, Prime Minister, what is now? What is now the problem?

04:57Why do we need to change our constitution again?

05:02OK, if we do this, this will be the last one?

05:08Or probably there will be some additional in the future.

05:12Why do we need to bring a couple of hundred citizens of our country into our constitution?

05:18We are talking about violation of someone's human rights.

05:24Who we are politicians to judge whether someone's rights is being violated or not.

05:30We can only misuse that issue.

05:32The real institution which is judging whether someone's rights is being violated or not is in Strasbourg.

05:39And what European Court for Human Rights says during the last couple of years,

05:45is 14 times in a favor of Macedonian community in Bulgaria and zero times in a favor of Bulgarian community in my country.

05:59So, then there is another question, additional question.

06:02Why we should change our constitution then?

06:06Why we are not talking about Macedonian community in Bulgaria?

06:10What about their human rights?

06:11What about their human rights?

06:15Because they are not allowed to register non-governmental organization.

06:21We are not talking about change of Bulgarian constitution.

06:24We are not talking about a sort of reciprocity.

06:28We are talking about registering non-governmental organization.

06:32And what we are saying, okay, previous, the best corruptive government in Europe accepted that deal to change constitution,

06:42suspending the parliament in my country, suspending the voice of the parliament in my country.

06:49And they are now in the history.

06:52There is a new government.

06:53And this new government is saying, okay, those guys, those ladies and gentlemen, accepted.

07:01But what about international law?

07:05What about resolution that is protecting human rights in the countries which are in the perimeter of the European Union?

07:15How do you communicate that specifically with this community?

07:19How do you build this dialogue with them, trying to convince them, probably, or explain it to them?

07:27You mean about Bulgarian community?

07:31Community.

07:31They have all the rights.

07:33Our constitution is that like.

07:36They have literally all the rights.

07:39Practically, they are a part of our institutions.

07:42But, okay, again, I'm saying, okay, they are in, we are out.

07:47This is a bit of bullying, okay?

07:49We would like to see ourselves on the table in Brussels.

07:54And what is now the price?

07:56And whether this is the last price that we should pay?

07:59This is the real question.

08:01How do you see the other EU membership hopefuls, the candidate countries,

08:05who are facing quite similar obstacles on their path?

08:10What would be some kind of piece of advice that you could share with your experience?

08:14Again, given that you had to overcome first one veto, then the second one veto,

08:19and then, as you said, who knows which one might come next?

08:24I can't remember a similar case.

08:28Maybe in the past that was a dispute between Slovenia and Croatia.

08:31In the meantime, there is a certain veto happening now with the candidate countries,

08:37as we've heard with the president of Ukraine and the Hungarian.

08:40I'm talking about the past.

08:41About the current situation, I'm not surprised.

08:44I'm not surprised that the similar situation will occur in the future.

08:47Because if someone is witnessing that this veto tool works,

08:54then we should apply the same recipe.

08:57Why not?

08:58Because if someone dares to bully someone else who wants to join the club,

09:04why the others should be silent?

09:07This is not normal.

09:07If we are accepting that principle once,

09:13then this principle will destroy all the values developed by Degasperi, Schumann,

09:19and Adonauer when this organization was developed.

09:23So, the European Union itself should ask themselves what we are doing.

09:30What we are doing with this unanimity.

09:32And is it according to the principles and values based on which we have been developed?

09:41And in this current situation, my final question to you would be,

09:45how disappointing it is for average Macedonians to, as you say,

09:50for over two decades to be...

09:52These are generations who have been waiting for over two decades

09:55and yet facing these roadblocks.

09:57Very much.

09:58Are they losing the motivation to join the European Union?

10:01No, definitely.

10:02The support is the highest in the region, maybe,

10:04or among the highest in the region.

10:06I'm working as a professor and teaching mechatronics.

10:09For me, it was in my previous life.

10:12Now I'm the prime minister for almost a year and a half.

10:17But I was very sorry when I was witnessing how my students are willing to depart from the country.

10:25Why?

10:25Because simply they were missing hope.

10:29They felt hopeless.

10:31And most of them are living now in the European countries, in the EU countries.

10:41When I was elected as a prime minister, I said,

10:43okay, this is a hurdle.

10:46Probably there will be a lot of challenges in front of us until the very end.

10:50This is the destiny of the small nations.

10:54The big ones are doing what they can and the small ones are doing what they must.

10:58Unfortunately, we are small.

11:00But let's do our homework.

11:02Let's finish our homework.

11:04Let's create a good environment.

11:06Let's bring back home youngsters and let's develop something that will be good for them.

11:12And let's deliver homework that will impress EU.

11:17And maybe then someone from EU will say enough is enough.

11:22Let's do something for them.

11:23Otherwise, this is damaging our values and practically this does not have a future.

11:32And that's why I do believe that we need to finish our homework and we are delivering since we were elected as a government.

11:41Thank you very much.

11:42We'll have to wrap it up here.

11:43Thank you for this experience and for sharing it with us here for the enlargement talks.

11:48That was 12 minutes with Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Ristian Mitskoski.

11:53Thank you.

11:53Thank you for the invitation.

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