Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Ivica Bocevski of Macedonia
that his country would be assessed solely by its reforms.
Bocevski said that because of this publicity he was forced into a discussion by his friends but resolved the problem with a computer.
Bocevski said the additional benchmark, the elections, manifested vulnerability of the voting process in western Macedonia.
During his one-day working visit to Brussels, Vice PM Bocevski is scheduled to meet later in the day with EP President Hans-Gert Pöttering.
During his stay in Tallinn, Vice Premier Bocevski is scheduled to meet with Estonian PM Andrus Ansip, Finance Minister Ivari Padar, Head of Energy Department within the Economic Affairs and Communications Ministry.
In Latvia, Vice Premier Bocevski is to meet with Foreign Minister and Justice Minister, Maris Riekstins and Gaidis Berzins respectively, as well as members of the Parliament's committee on foreign affairs and Latvia-Macedonia parliamentary group.
At a seminar in Brussels, Bocevski said that there were two ways that the crisis in Georgia could reflect on the Western Balkanseither towards broadening the pro-European idea or spreading independence.
Bocevski met in Brussels yesterday with EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn.
Mr Bocevski is free to define himself as Macedonian or anything else he prefers.
which generations of Macedonians gave their lives.
Bocevski said the EU's white list includes 20 countries, mainly from south America and several developed Asian countries including Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea.
Macedonia's deputy Prime Minister Ivica Bocevski said that only 4.
Mr Bocevski was very scathing about Robert Kaplans book Balkan Ghosts, which he believed presented a stereotypical view of the Balkans as a region where democracy, human security and stability are impossible, and which will forever be plagued by international crime, trafficking, etc.
Bocevski said the reason for the government crisis was a misunderstanding and said that the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and the vice president of DPA Menduh Taci launched talks on Sunday aimed to resolve differences between the two major government partners.
Macedonia wants stronger reaction on MAT issue with Greece06/05/2008SKOPJE, Macedonia -- The government expects a stronger reaction from the European Commission (EC), the International Civil Aviation Organisation and other competent structures that have been informed about Greece's ban on the Macedonian air carrier MAT, government spokesman Ivica Bocevski said on Monday (May 5th.
Bocevski denied speculation that Mondays resignation was related to a rumored Cabinet reshuffle.
Government spokesman Ivica Bocevski said Macedonia would report the incident to European flight agencies.
Ivica Bocevski said there were two possible spinoffs in the Western Balkans from the Georgian crisis -- a spread of pro-European ideas or a spread of uncertainty.
Macedonian government spokesman Ivica Bocevski said after the meeting that Gruevski had opened talks with the Albanian leaders over their possible participation in the ruling coalition.