site.btaGuaranteeing Sofia's National Interest Condition to Back Skopje's EU Accession Talks, Borissov Tells Varhelyi

Opposition GERB Party leader and former Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borissov held a working meeting here on Thursday with visiting EU Neighbourhood and Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi.

Borissov told the guest that "Bulgaria will back the start of EU accession negoatitions with the Republic of North Macedonia only after the rights of that country's citizens who identify themselves as Bulgarians and the Bulgarian national interest have been guaranteed," the former PM wrote in a Facebook post.

"I familiarized him with the common position that all parties represented in Parliament adopted at a meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security with President Radev in January 2022," Borissov reported.