The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee adopted the report on North Macedonia's progress towards the EU yesterday, but five amendments proposed by Bulgarian MEPs were rejected.
„Bulgaria won that the report mentions the Bulgarian community in the RSM and mentions the negotiating frameworks that we hold on to and on which all our wishes for what should be implemented in the constitution of North Macedonia are based“, commented in „This Sunday“ on bTV MEP Ivaylo Valchev.
„A huge number of our amendments were not included during the work on the report, when a majority that was formed within the group working on the report simply destroyed them“, said Valchev.
„We do not accuse, but we note the fact that the RSM managed to attract to its side at this moment the Hungarian MEPs from the party „Patriots for Europe“. We cannot blame other countries for having set themselves some goals, working for them and achieving them. The big question is what our country is doing, what it has done in the past and what it will do in the future, in order to have the same leverage and boast of the same success“, commented the MEP.
He rejected the accusations that Bulgarian MEPs are not active enough.
„These accusations are complete nonsense. Work on the report began after December with the rapporteur's visits to the RSM and with the preparation of the report. We only got involved in May, when the text of the report was ready. We saw what had already happened with this text and then our work began“, explained Ivaylo Valchev.
„We saw that the position of a member state does not guarantee us acceptance of our position. "We are currently seeing that a candidate country can receive much better treatment, while our country is treated as if we are the ones who have to give in and receive less than they want for their positions. Things have been wrong for a long time," said Valchev.