Bulgaria abuses its position to block our EU membership: North Macedonia’s Deputy PM Nikoloski

North Macedonia is a strategically important country in the Western Balkans, which was granted EU candidate status nearly 20 years ago, alongside Croatia. But while Croatia has now long been a member of the EU, North Macedonia is still waiting. We look at the reasons for the many delays with the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski. We also discuss his official visit to France, a country that effectively blocked North Macedonia’s EU membership in 2019 – although relations between the two countries are now much better, Nikoloski states.