News
2/20/2019 10:56
Deputy Prime
Minister in charge of European Affairs, Bujar Osmani had a briefing with the
representatives of the Working Party on the Western Balkans Region
(COWEB/COELA) within his working visit in Brussels, where he informed on the
process of EU integration of the country.
At the meeting,
Osmani briefed on the country's progress in delivering the envisaged reforms in
the direction of preparing the country for the start of membership negotiations
with the European Union, pointing at the pace of implementation of the reforms
foreseen in Plan 18, especially in key areas on the rule of law, security and
intelligence services, public administration reform and the fight against
organised crime and corruption.
"We have
exceptionally successful dynamics of implementation of the reforms provided in
Plan 18, which I believe will result in even better report of the European
commission than the last years' report, together with one more unconditional
recommendation to the EU Council", stressed Osmani, thus expressing
unambiguous expectation that this progress will result in confirmation of the
EU Council decision in June for start of negotiations with the Republic of
North Macedonia.
During the working visit to Brussels Deputy Prime Minister Osmani will
participate on the briefing at the influential think- tank European Policy
Centre (EPC) on topic: "North Macedonia on the EU path: A home run to accession negotiations?". Later
Osmani will take part on the Conference on topic: "Security in SEE-
Security across Europe" organised by Hanns Seidel Foundation, and he will
also have meeting with the EU commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy
and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, as well as the High Representative
of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and
Vice-President of the Commission, Federica Mogherini.