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With our neighbours bulgaria, which decision was also a very hard decision. and if i may say so, prime minister, we are going to discuss that in some detail, because your relationship with bulgaria is crucial to what happens next. but before we get there, you talk about regional issues, you talk about identity. i just wonder whether you worry that because europe right now is so preoccupied with the war in ukraine, and ukraine, of course, has now been given candidate status for the european union, whether you worry that little north macedonia is going to still be left on the sidelines because t...

That the european union needs north macedonia and it needs all the western balkans to be part of the european union. if you have asked me this question a year ago, then my answer would have maybe been more neutral. but now, after the new geostrategic situation which we have in europe, and after the invasion of russia on ukraine, and after all the security, energy and economic issues which are at stake in europe, it is clear and it has been confirmed by all the leaders of the european union, starting from president macron, chancellor scholz, the president of the european commission, madame von ...

A very hard decision. and if i may say so, prime minister, we are going to discuss that in some detail, because your relationship with bulgaria is crucial to what happens next. but before we get there, you talk about regional issues, you talk about identity. i just wonder whether you worry that because europe right now is so preoccupied with the war in ukraine, and ukraine, of course, has now been given candidate status for the european union, whether you worry that little north macedonia is going to still be left on the sidelines because the eu now has ukraine front and centre of its attentio...

If you have asked me this question a year ago, then my answer would have maybe been more neutral. but now, after the new geostrategic situation which we have in europe, and after the invasion of russia on ukraine, and after all the security, energy and economic issues which are at stake in europe, it is clear and it has been confirmed by all the leaders of the european union, starting from president macron, chancellor scholz, the president of the european commission, madame von der leyen, that european union is not complete without the western balkans, without north macedonia, without albania,...

For identity issues. we have made these tough decisions. so you are right, we have changed the name of the country in order to become members of nato and in order to progress to the european union integration. also, we have done agreement with our neighbours bulgaria, which decision was also a very hard decision. and if i may say so, prime minister, we are going to discuss that in some detail, because your relationship with bulgaria is crucial to what happens next. but before we get there, you talk about regional issues, you talk about identity. i just wonder whether you worry that because eur...