Dimitar Kovacevski (Photo: The Government of North Macedonia)
The prime minister of North Macedonia, Dimitar Kovacevski, has stated that his country's European integration was an irreversible, national process and an obligation towards the citizens who wanted it.
In an interview to the Jan. 4 issue of the Focus weekly, he stressed that all 120 members of parliament had the responsibility and obligation to facilitate European integration for a better life of the present and future generations.
"That is not a process of one man or party, but a national process. Our children deserve to live in a European country; not in some European country abroad, but in North Macedonia, an EU member where, like in other EU countries, there is economic prosperity, excellent democracy and social justice," Kovacevski has stated.
In order to accomplish that, he emphasized, a great and difficult decision has been made, which enabled North Macedonia in July last year to open the path to EU membership. "It was a matter of long negotiations with France, the EU presiding country, and Bulgaria, and we have reached a compromise that protected our identity. We have started the EU negotiations in pure Macedonian language, as Macedonians. Undoubtedly, the country must move forward. The citizens want to join the EU and our task as politicians is to fulfill that," Kovacevski stated in the interview.
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