Skopje, 25 December 2025 (MIA) - President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova says the national consensus she called for in her annual Parliament address should be around the guarantees that no future requirements would emerge in the EU integration process.

"The consensus should be about not having double standards for the EU membership. The consensus should be about us being the record-holders in constitutional changes at the request of the EU, we even changed our name without consensus but we did not even start the accession negotiations. The consensus should be about having principles that are valid for all. If the Council of Europe set up a human rights court, then its decisions should be implemented," President Siljanovska Davkova told Kanal 5.

She says the country must get guarantees that no one will push us into rows about identity issues, because this is EU's fundamental value.

"The national consensus should be built around the guarantees. We must have some guarantees and there are many options for these guarantees. It is not true that we haven't discussed this, we have. It is not only about a third protocol, the protocol can be changed, the conclusions can be changed. Our precedent is not important for us only, it is important for all other EU candidates as well," says Siljanovska Davkova.

According to her, what the former government accepted and introduced in the Negotiating Framework and the EU conclusions "goes against the EU principles and values", noting that any Union member can initiate a procedure against Bulgaria for violation of the fundamental principles and values.

"The EU must find a solution to keep us fit, because we are not talking only about a more powerful EU amid an unstable multipolar stage. We are talking about, and these are not my words but of EU leaders, resilience to possible influence. The EU can find a solution if it wants to. Why doesn't it? Because it is practical, pragmatic and because someone agreed to this. If the ones who now put forward resolutions thought differently and said what I am saying now, then the ones who took the decisions would have taken it into consideration. However, they were convinced that this is a good solution and told us back then 'only this and it's done, we'll start the accession negotiations'," says Siljanovska Davkova.

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