Macedonian Friendship Group formed in Brussels, briefly attended by Golden Dawn
Twenty-six members of the European Parliament, led by Croatian MEP Marijana Petir, set up late Tuesday the Friends of Macedonia Group in the European Parliament. The group, which also functioned as part of the EP’s previous composition, will serve as a bridge of friendship between the European Parliament and Macedonia in a bid to speed up the country's EU integration process. "The group's main goal is to help Macedonia to commence the accession talks, as we believe that the country has been unfairly in the waiting room for 10 years. We consider that EU is breaching the good, regular practices when is accepts a bilateral issue to be an obstacle for launching the accession talks," Petir said, inviting all MEPs to join the group.