North Macedonia’s parliament approved a European Union proposal that aims to help resolve a Balkan dispute and unlock the organization’s enlargement in Europe’s most volatile region.
After a three-day discussion in the capital, Skopje, 68 lawmakers in the 120-member assembly voted Saturday in favor of a motion to let the government back a framework for negotiations offered by the EU.
By approving the EU proposal, “we remain on the only road to which nobody offered an alternative,” Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski told lawmakers on Thursday, a the start of the two-day debates. “We’re starting to quickly move and change the country in the process of negotiations.”
