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Analyses | 2020-12-14 | Marta Szpala, Mateusz Seroka
Bulgaria blocks accession negotiations with North Macedonia
Due to objections from Bulgaria, the EU Council did not adopt the conclusions on the enlargement policy, including the negotiating framework with North Macedonia and Albania…
Analyses | 2019-10-23 | Marta Szpala
North Macedonia decides to hold a snap parliamentary election
Following negotiations with leaders of parliamentary groupings and President Stevo Pendarovski, Zoran Zaev, the prime minister of North Macedonia, announced on 20 October that a compromise on scheduling a snap…
Accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia a dispute inside the EU
On 15 October, the General Affairs Council (GAC), a body functioning within the Council of the European Union, was unable to reach a compromise on accession…
Analyses | 2019-06-26 | Marta Szpala, Ryszarda Formuszewicz
EU split over enlargement policy
On 18th June the Council of the European Union again postponed the decision to open accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia. Procedural questions…
Macedonia Parliament votes to change the countrys name
On 11 January, a two-thirds majority in the Macedonian parliament adopted amendments to the constitution, which provide for a change in the name of the state to the Republic of Northern Macedonia. Members of the…
Hungary asylum for ex-prime minister of Macedonia
Nikola Gruevski, who served as the prime minister of Macedonia in 2006–2016, fled his country at the beginning of November and submitted a request for asylum in Hungary,…
Referendum in Macedonia without a conclusive outcome
A consultative referendum was held on 30 September in the Republic of Macedonia on integration into the EU and NATO, and an agreement with Greece changing the constitutional name of the country to the Republic of…
Analyses | 2018-07-25 | Jan Strzelecki
Tensions between Greece and Russia with Macedonia in the background
In recent weeks there has been a cooling in the traditionally friendly relations between Greece and Russia.
A Greek-Macedonian compromise Chances for ending the dispute
On 12 June, the prime ministers of Greece and of Macedonia announced that a compromise solution had been developed on the subject of the name of the latter state.
Macedonia A new beginning in relations with Greece
The prime ministers of Macedonia and Greece met on 24 January in Davos for the first time since 2010.
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