EU cancels Vienna talks on FYROM crisis (Bulgarian media FYROM name propaganda)

The European Union has cancelled what were intended to be talks bringing together the FYROM [*] major parties to resolve that country’s current crisis, after major opposition party SDSM insisted it would not attend the meeting that had been planned for April 22 in Vienna.

The latest phase of FYROM [*] political crisis has followed president Gjorge Ivanov’s highly controversial amnesty of 56 politicians, including former prime minister and VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski, implicated in an illegal surveillance scandal.

Ivanov’s April 12 amnesty decision triggered mass public protests which are continuing, demanding Ivanov’s resignation and the appointment of a new technocratic administration.

The country is meant to be headed for early parliamentary elections on June 24, already postponed from an initial April 24 date, which the SDSM has said it will boycott because it does not believe that the process will be free and fair.

On April 21, European Commissioner Johannes Hahn and members of the European Parliament Richard Howitt, Eduard Kukan and Ivo Vajgl issued a strongly-worded statement on the cancellation of the talks that had been planned for Friday...
 [sofiaglobe.com]
21/4/16
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