{"id":29144,"date":"2022-01-11T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=29144"},"modified":"2022-01-11T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T11:03:39","slug":"bulgaria-welcomes-the-opening-of-eu-accession-negotiations-for-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/bulgaria-welcomes-the-opening-of-eu-accession-negotiations-for-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria welcomes the opening of EU accession negotiations for Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgaria will be welcoming the opening of negotiations for Albania\u2019s EU integration. This won\u2019t however, be the case for North Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulgarian president informed North Macedonia that it hasn\u2019t delivered on its promise to fulfill the obligations prescribed in the agreement signed by both nations 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The European Council will advise the Bulgarian government to base its arguments against North Macedonia, not on these conditions, but rather on the results that need to be achieved by North Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p>North Macedonia had to change its official name, in order to have Greece lift its veto, but now it is faced with an even more problematic one. Bulgaria is disputing North Macedonia\u2019s language and history.<\/p>\n<p>So far, high officials from the EU have declared that the decoupling of Albania and North Macedonia in the negotiations process is a highly unlikely scenario.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2021\/11\/22\/bulgarias-veto-on-north-macedonia-to-remain-confirms-reelected-president\/\">Bulgaria\u2019s veto on North Macedonia to remain, confirms reelected President<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/11\/13\/albanias-eu-integration-rama-we-got-the-green-light-bulgaria-blocking-the-process\/\">Albania\u2019s EU integration, Rama: We got the green light, Bulgaria blocking the process<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2021\/06\/26\/bulgaria-lists-conditions-required-to-lift-veto-on-north-macedonia\/\">Bulgaria lists conditions required to lift veto on North Macedonia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgaria will be welcoming the opening of negotiations for Albania\u2019s EU integration. This won\u2019t however, be the case for North Macedonia. The Bulgarian president informed North Macedonia that it hasn\u2019t delivered on its promise to fulfill the obligations prescribed in the agreement signed by both nations 4 years ago. The European Council will advise the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":29145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bulgaria welcomes the opening of EU accession negotiations for Albania - 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\/bulgaria-welcomes-the-opening-of-eu-accession-negotiations-for-albania\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bulgaria welcomes the opening of EU accession negotiations for Albania - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bulgaria will be welcoming the opening of negotiations for Albania\u2019s EU integration. 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