Opening the accession negotiations of North Macedonia and Albania is a success for both countries and their citizens. It is the result of perseverance, dedication to European values, demonstrated resilience and maintained faith in the accession process, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said today before the start of the joint intergovernmental conference. She emphasized that both countries strengthened the rule of law, fought against corruption, have free media, a good civil society, numerous reforms and modernized economies. "North Macedonia will soon negotiate with us about Frontex. It is about the deployment of Frontex in North Macedonia and it will strengthen our cooperation in migration and Dimitar you can count on my support to ensure that the agreement will be translated into Macedonian language, without footnotes, without asterisks on an equal level with all 24 European languages", said the president of the EC.
