“Good neighbourly relations are an important part of every framework for negotiations, and building them for the future generations (of Bulgaria and North Macedonia) will require restoring mutual trust between the two countries,” said MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk during a joint press conference with North Macedonia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani.

Sir Graham Watson, former MEP (1994-2014) and President of the ALDE Party (2011-2015), presented in Sofia, the Bulgarian translation of his 2009 book "Building a Liberal Europe: the ALDE Project", calling on EU countries to not forget that "we all share a common European identity".

Chairman of Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Mustafa Karadayi is the party's top-of-the-list candidate for the May 26 European Parliament elections. This transpired at the registration of the MRF's candidate list at the Central Election Commission on Monday.