2022 in North Macedonia

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Events in the year 2022 in North Macedonia .

Incumbents

• President: Stevo Pendarovski
• Prime Minister: Zoran Zaev (until 16 January), Dimitar Kovačevski (starting 16 January)

Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in North Macedonia

• 24 June - Bulgaria lifts its veto against North Macedonia's bid to join the European Union. ^[1]
• 2 July - Protests erupt in the capital Skopje over the French proposal to unblock EU accession talks with North Macedonia. ^[2]
• 16 July - The Assembly of North Macedonia passes a motion to amend North Macedonia’s Constitution to recognise its Bulgarian minority, while pledging to discuss remaining issues with the Bulgarian government. In exchange, Bulgaria will allow membership talks with the European Union to begin. ^[3]
• 19 July - Negotiations on the accession of North Macedonia and Albania to the European Union begin in Brussels. ^[4]

Deaths

• 17 April – Omer Kaleshi, painter (b. 1932) ^[5]
• 1 August - Ilinka Mitreva, politician (b. 1950) ^[6]
• 10 August - Kiril Dojčinovski, footballer (b. 1943) ^[7]

References

1. Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Bulgaria: Lawmakers agree to lift block on North Macedonia EU talks | DW | 24.06.2022". DW.COM. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
2. "Concessions to Bulgaria prompts violence in North Macedonia". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
3. "North Macedonia votes to resolve dispute with Bulgaria". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
4. Tidey, Alice (2022-07-19). "'Historic moment': EU negotiations open for Albania, North Macedonia". euronews. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
5. "E trishtë/ Ndahet nga jeta piktori i njohur shqiptar". BoldNews.al. 2022-04-17. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
6. "Тажна вест: Почина поранешната Министерка за надворешни работи Илинка Митрева - Вечер" (in Macedonian). 2022-08-01. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
7. Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Preminuo legendarni fudbaler Zvezde Kiril Dojčinovski". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 2022-09-06.