German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived Saturday in Skopje, as a part of his Balkan's tour in a bid to unblock the North Macedonia's strive to start the EU membership talks, burdened by Bulgarian veto. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived Saturday in Skopje, as a part of his Balkan's tour in a bid to unblock the North Macedonia's strive to start the EU membership talks, burdened by Bulgarian veto. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited North Macedonia and Bulgaria on Saturday in a bid to resolve the dispute between both countries that has seen European Union membership talks with both North Macedonia and Albania blocked. “North Macedonia and Albania deserve to start the membership talks,” Scholz said at joint news conference with North Macedonia Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski in the capital, Skopje. North Macedonia applied for EU membership in 2004 and received a positive assessment from the European Commission a year later.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 11, 2022 16:13 UTC