site.btaThere Is Such a People Party Welcomes Postponement of Vote on North Macedonia's EU Progress Report

Postponement of the vote on the progress report of the Republic of North Macedonia (RNM) to the EU will serve as a re-examination of those who thought they could bypass Bulgaria, commented There Is Such a People (TISP)  MP Stanislav Balabanov.

The European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs Wednesday agreed to postpone the vote on the progress report of the Republic of North Macedonia to the EU at the proposal of rapporteur Thomas Weitz. The vote in the parliamentary committee is scheduled to take place on June 24, and the vote in the EP plenary hall in Strasbourg will be in July.

“The truth is that we revealed the behind-the-scenes interests of North Macedonia through intermediaries in Brussels, if possible, to bypass Bulgaria in some form, so that North Macedonia can move towards EU integration in a more convenient way. The decision of the Bulgarian Parliament also worked in Brussels in this way, until North Macedonia fulfills absolutely everything regarding the Good Neighbourliness Treaty and all the steps that Bulgaria has set in advance, it can simply forget about the EU,” Balabanov further commented.

The report was withdrawn by the rapporteur himself due to clear evidence of interference, external interference from a candidate country, said TISP MP Dimitar Gardev. "We witnessed direct quotes from internal information, internal emails of the rapporteurs, which are quoted by Prime Minister Mickoski, so the basis, technically, is absolutely there," he said. "The unification of the entire Bulgarian Parliament against this absolutely unacceptable action gives us confidence that Bulgarian society stands united behind a common national cause," the MP added.

TISP Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov noted that "we must give credit to all Bulgarian MEPs in the European Parliament, because they organized themselves and each of them influenced the respective parliamentary group they are in to act correctly in this situation."

Parliament's decision from last week states that Bulgaria remains fully committed to the European consensus of July 2022 and calls on the authorities in the Republic of North Macedonia to also strictly implement the agreements they have made.