Реформите в Македония продължават, въпреки политическото напрежение в страната. Това се посочва в пролетния доклад на Европейската комисия.
Документът засяга напредъка на страната по препоръките на ЕС, включително по отношение на добросъседските отношения и по въпроса за името на държавата.
Комисията препоръчва продължаването на политическия диалог за преодоляване на сегашната криза. Според ЕК се наблюдава напредък по почти всички поставени цели. Отношенията със съседите се запазиха добри, бяха предприети стъпки в двустранните отношения с България и с Гърция, пише в доклада.
В документа се отбелязва важността от прилагането на политическото споразумение от март тази година, с което бе преодоляна политическата криза.
През последните шест месеца отчитаме напредък, сега предизвикателството е да се използват напълно съществуващите възможности, коментира еврокомисарят по разширяването на ЕС Щефан Фюле, цитиран в съобщение на комисията.
Той препоръчва пълно приложение на мартенското споразумение, включително по отношение на разследващата комисия, междупартийния меморандум за разбирателство за стратегическата цел за влизане в ЕС и възстановяване на диалога с журналистите.
Комисията отбелязва, че очаква през юни Съветът на ЕС да разгледа препоръката ѝ за започването на преговори със Скопие за членство в Общността.
В края на миналата година страните членки отказаха да дадат на Скопие дата за начало на преговори. България също обяви резерви към Македония, свързани с добросъседството.
За честна и независима журналистика
Ще се радваме, ако ни подкрепите, за да може и занапред да разчитате на независима, професионална и честна информационно - аналитична медия.
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Воденете на "преговори" с България и Гърция са чиста симулация за напредък на Скопие, ала на дело нищо съществено не се е променило. "Македонските" политичари трябва да се придържат към историческата истина, а именно, че „раждането” на "македонска" националност е Югославски политически проект, изпълнението на който започва след 1945 г., и да се откажат от техните провокативни патерналистически ам биции за "износ" на Титово-Югославски македонизъм” в съседните им държави ! Иначе не само че няма да …
влезат никога в ЕС, а нямат изобщо шансове за оцеляване като държава !
Read more: http://balkani.actualno.com/Makedonija-za-ES---beleji-napredyk-i-ne-iska-konflikt-s-Bylgarija-news_421711.html#ixzz2QizqGPz0
Проблемите на макетата ще ги решат шиптърите,един път и завинаги!!!!!!!!!!
Ега ти тъпите македонци!
Българските мечти за "Солунската митница", както и българските ментални нужди и безпочвени мераци да сe правиш на "освободител", "спасител" и "лидер" на македонците и Македония, отдавна изтекоха като комунистически тодорживковски eкcкpeмeнт в cмpъдлив зaдyнaйcки кeнeф!
"бяха предприети стъпки в двустранните отношения с България и с Гърция" - стъпки в каква посока? Те двустранните отношения могат да бъдат всякакви, ама това на писарушките от Медиапул не ѝм е известно ...
От къде преписахте тази информация? Позовавайте се! От БТА сте я взели. Нищо свестно сами не можете да сътворите, освен скандали.
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Macedonia to miss another chance in EU accession talks
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is set to miss another chance of entering into EU accession talks as it has failed to make progress in resolving disputes over its name with Greece and to achieve good neighbourly relations with Bulgaria.
Brussels (dpa Insight) - The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is likely to forfeit another …
chance to start accession negotiations with the European Union as its government remains unyielding in disputes over neighbourly relations with EU members Bulgaria and Greece, a Brussels-based diplomat told dpa Insight EU. Since October 1, 2009 the EU top executive, the European Commission, has proposed to the member states to fix a date for membership talks with Skopje. However, due to opposition from Greece this has yet to happen since beginning the talks requires an unanimous approval by all EU governments. FYROM has a candidate status since December 2005.
It was unclear whether a progress report on Macedonia the Commission was expected to unveil at 1600 CET on Tuesday April 16, 2013 would reiterate the accession talks proposal, according to a draft the DPA saw late Monday. “The recommendation part is still blank. The commissioners are to decide on the wording at the very last moment at a meeting in Strasbourg,” another diplomat familiar with the issue said.
He added Brussels was already “lukewarm” to pushing forward Macedonia’s candidacy after internal political turmoil in the country earlier this year. It included an opposition boycott of parliament, street clashes and violence against journalists. Brussels is also increasingly aware of problems with good neighbourly relations – a must in EU integration – raised by Bulgaria.
History and geography
Greece wants that prior to any membership talks, FYROM changes its constitutional name “Macedonia” which for Athens implies a territorial claim on a homonymous northern Greek province.
A solution to the 22 year-old dispute can hardly be expected by a EU summit scheduled in June as Greece is sceptical on the reported latest proposal, “Upper Republic of Macedonia” in the negotiations on the issue that have been mediated by US envoy Matthew Nimitz, the diplomat said.
For its part Bulgaria is insisting on legal guarantees against similar claims on its territory which Skopje views as part of its historical ethno-cultural space. Bulgarian officials often point out Macedonian school books displaying maps of “geographical Macedonia” (within current state borders) and “historical Macedonia” (stretching into a three-fold larger space and including territories belonging to its neighbours).
“I am convinced that Bulgaria could derive no benefits whatsoever from adopting a negative stance towards Macedonia,” FYROM’s foreign minister Nikola Poposki said in a recent interview published on his ministry’s website. “It would be extremely detrimental if Bulgaria decided to play a role of obstructing the European integration of Macedonia,” he added. “There is no argument whatsoever that could support Bulgaria allowing itself making any future obstructions to completing the European project.”
Member states divided
Supporters of opening accession talks with FYROM include Austria, the Baltic countries, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden and Britain the diplomat said. They argue an EU prospect will help stabilize the 2 million-strong impoverished FYROM which hinges on an uneasy co-existence of its Slavic majority and a rapidly growing ethnic Albanian minority which currently makes up a quarter of the FYROM’s population. Tensions between the two ethnicities have been smouldering since culminating in an armed conflict in 2001. It ended with an intercommunity agreement integrating the Albanians in the government.
Sceptics on allowing the FYROM to begin EU accession talks include the bloc’s powerhouses Germany and France, the diplomat said. They want FYROM’s issues with neighbours to be sorted out first instead of being ‘imported’ into the EU and made subject of membership negotiations. “If such issues can be resolved at accession talks then let’s start them not only with FYROM but with Serbia and Kosovo as well,” the diplomat said referring to differences between Serbia and its former breakaway province which declared independence in 2008.
Talks on a bilateral agreement
In December 2012, Sofia conditioned its consent to start accession talks with Macedonia on conclusion of a bilateral treaty of good neighbourly relations based on a joint declaration which Sofia and Skopje signed in 1999 under then prime ministers Ivan Kostov of Bulgaria and Ljupcho Georgievski of FYROM. The declaration stated that the two countries give up any territorial claims on each other. Bulgaria wants to make this pledge legally binding under a treaty. Four rounds of talks on its wording have already taken place since last January behind closed doors because of the sensitivity of the matter, the diplomat said.
“The joint working group tasked with negotiating the new agreement, and mapping out the way forward … met on 14 December, 14-15 January, 1 February and at the end of March,” the Commission draft report said.
“A draft text of the Agreement was formally presented by Bulgaria in early January. Meetings took place between the two Foreign Ministers en marge of an international conference 1-2 February, as well as a visit by the Prime Minister of Bulgaria in Skopje on 16 February,” the document said. “Both countries report only a few outstanding issues with the text.”
Bulgarian concerns: Few but important
“Yes, very few but important,” the diplomat said. He said the process has ground to a halt due to Skopje’s refusal to pledge it won’t interfere in its neighbours internal affairs based on article 49 of its Constitution.
It reads: “The Republic cares for the status and rights of those persons belonging to the Macedonian people in neighbouring countries, as well as Macedonian expatriates, assists their cultural development and promotes links with them. The Republic cares for the cultural, economic and social rights of the citizens of the Republic abroad. The Republic cares for the status and rights of those persons belonging to the Macedonian.”
This text irks Sofia because of claimed “Macedonian” diaspora estimate numbers published on FYROM’s foreign ministry web site. According to these figures, 750,000 “Macedonians” live in Bulgaria. This equals 10 per cent of the Bulgaria’s population. In Bulgaria’s latest census in 2011, a total of 1,654 people have identified themselves as “Macedonian” and almost half of them hold FYROM passports, according to the Bulgarian foreign ministry.
Sofia is also insisting that FYROM respects human rights of its citizens who identify themselves as Bulgarians. FYROM census papers envision various kinds of ethnic affiliations including Albanian, Turkish, and Roma and others but there is no line category for Bulgarians. At the same time, some 40,000 FYROM citizens hold a second Bulgarian citizenship.
They have travelled to Sofia to apply and have complied with a Bulgarian law requirement to provide proof of an at least partly Bulgarian origin. Bulgarian MEPs Andrey Kovachev, Evgeni Kirilov and Stanimir Ilchev have cited dozens of cases in which people in Macedonia have been fired from jobs, harassed and even prosecuted and tried on made up charges because of openly declaring themselves Bulgarians.
A low hanging fruit
The EU’s top enlargement official, Czech Commissioner Stefan Fuele, has been keen to launch accession talks with Macedonia after unclear signs of a possible compromise on the thorny name issue with Greece, the diplomat said. However, his enthusiasm seems to have generated more opposition than support.
“He has deluded himself in seeing Macedonia as a low hanging fruit,” a Bulgarian foreign ministry official said.
Progress on the FYROM impasse would be seen as a raison d’être for the enlargement policy, while justifying the ongoing existence of a specially dedicated commissioner and services in an EU which is under an increasing pressure to cut costs.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has recently noted that allowing new members to join the bloc should be put on an extended pause following Croatia’s accession which is scheduled to take place on July 1, 2013.
There is no other pressing business in terms of enlargement and it can be easily reduced to a part of the European External Actions Service, the diplomat said.
Shared history which divides
Bulgaria was the first country to recognize FYROM when it seceded from the former Yugoslavia in 1991. The two countries share centuries of common history. Their languages are a similar to each other as Dutch is to Flemish and people across the border understand each other without the need of an interpreter.
While many ordinary citizens regard each other as kinsmen, at a political level relations have been poisoned by decades of anti-Bulgarian propaganda under former Yugoslavia’s leader Josip Broz Tito.
“One of the key messages we have been constantly sending out at all meetings to date is that history should be left to historians and we must not allow the past present any kind of obstacle to building the future,” Poposki said.
“However it is the authorities in Skopje who abuse history,” Kovachev said in his response. “Poposki might be right that no Balkan country recognises the history of its neighbours. However, in their (FYROM’s) case the ‘history’ is 100 per cent fake.” Kovachev said Bulgaria had no problem even with that. “However we cannot accept the history being used as a ground to violate the rights of Macedonian citizens who openly declare their Bulgarian origin,” he argued.
The diplomat questioned FYROM’s official doctrine as inconsistent in tracing the country’s roots back to both Alexander the Great (the Ancient Greek conqueror who reigned in the 4th Century BC) and the Slavs who came to the Balkans more than nine centuries later.
“And what about the Macedonian Albanians, are they direct descendants of Alexander the Great too?” he said.
“The key to Macedonia’s integration is neither in Sofia, nor in Athens, nor in Brussels. It is in Skopje,” Kovachev said. “It is in the preparedness of Macedonia’s governing class to change this ideology and normalize its attitude to Bulgaria."
Positions
Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki on March 29, 2013: "One of the key messages we have been constantly sending out at all meetings to date is that history should be left to historians and we must not allow the past present any kind of obstacle to building the future. That implies respecting each other’s positions and rights of self-determination. Moreover, as much as Macedonia and the Macedonians respect Bulgaria and the Bulgarians, so should the Bulgarian citizens and the Bulgarian state honour the will and sentiments of Macedonia and
the Macedonian citizens."
Bulgarian MEP Andrey Kovachev on November 28 2012: "The problem is that those two aspects - history and rights - are related. The discrimination stems from the approach to falsify history and thus to build an identity which is not based on objective historical facts but on the desires of those ruling in Skopje."
Draft European Parliament resolution on Macedonia approved by the Foreign Affairs Committee on April 8, 2013 (excerpt): "Underlines that good neighbourly relations are essential pillar of the EU accession process; welcomes the country's overall constructive role as regards relations with other enlargement countries; encourages the continuing diplomatic
exchanges which have taken place between Athens, Sofia and Skopje and stresses the importance of all sides demonstrating a proper commitment for ‘good neighbourly relations’ especially based on friendship, mutual respect constructive dialogue and a genuine desire to resolve misunderstandings and overcome hostilities; calls for the avoidance of gestures, statements and actions which could negatively impact on good neighbourly relations; welcomes in this respect the first meeting held recently between the representatives of Skopje and Sofia governments aimed at the possibility of signing an agreement between the two countries; urges the Enlargement Commissioner to pay special attention in his report on the issue of good neighbourly relations; also calls for greater socio-cultural collaboration in view of strengthening the ties between the peoples of the region."
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