The European Parliament has adopted the report on North Macedonia, authored by Austrian MEP Thomas Waitz, without any mention ...

North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski declared on Wednesday that Bulgaria is pursuing a long-standing strategy aimed at erasing the Macedonian nation and identity. The statement came in ...

References to “Macedonian national identity and language” have been removed from the EU Annual Progress Report on North Macedonia.

"They have no place in a report on the progress of a country that is a candidate for EU membership", Bulgarian MEP says - ...

The 2019 law made Albanian a second official language in areas with a significant population of ethnic Albanians. Ethnic Albanians make up roughly a quarter of North Macedonia’s 2 million ...

Essentially, the Bulgarian government believes that North Macedonia’s language shares common roots with Bulgarian, a claim North Macedonians reject. In 2022, ...

Lawmakers in North Macedonia have passed a French-brokered deal aimed at settling a dispute with Bulgaria, clearing the way to long-due European Union membership talks.. A total of 68 lawmakers ...

Talks start July 19. Later Saturday, after a Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski announced that North Macedonia will start accession talks with EU July 19.

North Macedonia tries to ensure diversity — and keep the peace — with computer-generated state hiring quotas. Fraud and bloat have tainted that effort.