Skopje, 25 December 2025 (MIA) - The Government and institutions are mobilized, we are holding weekly coordination meetings to follow the status of the Reform Agenda implementation, said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski on Thursday.

"It is true that a portion of the reform steps have been delayed due to the local elections, but it is also true that the Government and institutions have been mobilized since, we are holding weekly coordination meetings to follow the status of every step, regarding the tasks due to be completed by December 31 and those that are to be delivered as of January 1. Twelve steps that are lagging behind have entered the grace period and must be completed by June 2026. I told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa at our recent meetings that 8-12 steps will be delivered by mid-January," PM Mickoski told a Q&A session.

The PM noted that 10 out of 12 steps have already been delivered, while the two remaining would not be completed.

"The first step that has not been delivered is in the energy sector, namely the adopted and EU-aligned Energy Law. As we see it, the step has been completed but they say it isn't because some bylaws for which there is a grace period between 9-18 months have not been drafted, but the same goes for the market coupling that has not been finished by Brussels. Our position is clear and we have delivered what was up to us. Either this is accepted as delivered or we get a new deadline by December 2026. The other step is related to the electricity market liberalization, which we said we would not meet, because if this happens and we do not continue to subsidize the price of electricity, then citizens will get bills that are 50-70 percent higher compared to the current ones," said Mickoski.

He added that the steps entering the grace period would be completed by 1 April 2026, "and as no other country in the Western Balkans, we will realize the Reform Agenda on time".

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