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Euronews Albania correspondent in Skopje, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PM Zaev pays an official visit to Bulgaria in effort to clear country\u2019s integration process - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/pm-zaev-pays-an-official-visit-to-bulgaria-in-effort-to-clear-countrys-integration-process\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM Zaev pays an official visit to Bulgaria in effort to clear country\u2019s integration process - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, is on an official visit to Sofie in a bid to clear his country\u2019s integration process. 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