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Bulgarian MEPs postpone vote on North Macedonia's EU accession report

2025-06-04 18:47:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Bulgarian MEPs postpone vote on North Macedonia's EU accession report

The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday postponed a vote on a report assessing North Macedonia's progress towards EU membership.

The report was scheduled to be voted on together with the dossiers on other countries competing for EU membership. While the reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Georgia were approved, the one on North Macedonia was blocked due to a last-minute disagreement between political groups.

The MEP responsible for writing the report, Austrian Thomas Waitz from the Greens/EFA group, announced the decision to postpone the vote following a request from the European People's Party (EPP), the largest group in Parliament.

The EPP withdrew its support the day before the planned vote, after initially agreeing to its content, sources in the Parliament told foreign media. This left the report without the majority needed for approval and left Waitz with no choice but to request a postponement.

The identity dispute between North Macedonia and Bulgaria has long been a stumbling block on Skopje's path to joining the EU. Essentially, the Bulgarian government believes that the North Macedonian language shares common roots with Bulgarian, a claim that North Macedonians reject./CNA

 





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