The high-level dialogue between Macedonia and the EU is a great opportunity for turning a new leaf in the relations between Macedonia and the EU and a bridge to opening membership negotiations with the EU, said EU Commissioner Stefan Fule and Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Teuta Arifi in Brussels Tuesday.

“The dialogue is not a replacement of the accession talks, yet the opening of the two very important chapters, 23 and 34, will let us show we are resolved to implement the reforms in sensitive areas,” Arifi told Dnevnik.

She said that at the meeting with Fule she was officially presented the guidelines of the dialogue concerning five priorities to be held in Skopje on 15 March.

“We are ready to work together on the priorities: freedom of speech, judicial reform, public administration reform, election system reform and economy,” Deputy Prime Minister Arifi said.