Memo: Key findings of the 2013 Progress Report on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

The Progress Report on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is part of the 2013 Enlargement Package adopted by the European Commission on 16 October 2013. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was the first country to sign a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU and has been a candidate country since 2005. In the package the Commission concluded that the country continues to sufficiently fulfil the political criteria for EU membership and recommended, for the fifth consecutive year, that negotiations should be opened.

On 25 October 2013, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle met with Prime Minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Nikola Gruevski accompanied by Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki in Brussels to discuss the Progress report on the country and the Commission's fifth recommendation to the Council to open accession negotiations

European Commission: RAPID: Memo, MEMO/13/936: EU - former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Meeting with N. Gruevski http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-936_en.pdf

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