"From the start the Government stated its plans and the deadline. We said that we expect to receive the status candidate for EU membership in December, and that the date for the negotiations and the negotiations themselves would come in some subsequent phase. I think that it would be very good if on 9 November it is confirmed that Macedonia's plans were right, that the country set itself a deadline and that it observed this deadline," Deputy Prime Minister Radmila Sekerinska said in an interview for A1 Television.

"I hope that we will sober up in these two months and we will show that Macedonia has an internal political capacity to put the priorities first, not last. The priorities are the results of the reforms. We are already entering the second phase, where we will be assessed in detail, they will insist on implementation, and they will see how we function on a daily basis," Sekerinska said.