Unofficially, Bulgaria may lift the blockade if the requirements in the Declaration adopted by the Bulgarian Parliament remain the same, but the claim that these requirements are a condition for the first intergovernmental conference - RS Macedonia to meet the "5 + 1" requirements - is removed. . Time is short, so this could happen in the month after the formation of a new government in Sofia.
"We hope to receive a positive signal in December, a positive signal that does not mean a date, because we see that only now the parliament in neighboring Bulgaria is being constituted and there are deadlines. The most optimistic scenario is December 15 for forming a government. And so we have a whole new, constructive approach to what we can get in mid-December, "said Artan Gruby, deputy prime minister.
Radev reaffirmed his views. The formation of a new government did not prevent the old-new president of Bulgaria from repeating the red lines at a meeting with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Strasbourg.
"Sofia expects concrete and irreversible results in the dialogue with RS Macedonia, which will guarantee European values in respect for human rights, stopping hate speech and protecting Bulgaria's cultural and historical heritage," said Rumen Radev, Bulgaria's president.
This January, France will take over the EU presidency for the next six months, and unofficially, Paris is giving the Macedonian government a chance to start talks in January at the latest, due to the French presidential election in April.
Macedonia will again have to find common ground with Sofia to remove the blockade from the negotiating framework. Sofia's six demands are: a declaration that Macedonia has no territorial claims, non-interference in Bulgaria's internal affairs, an agreement for the historical commission to meet at least five times a year, condemning communist de-Bulgarianization, preventing hate speech and including Bulgarians in the Macedonian constitution. .
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