Germany’s overseas minister heiko maas and minister for europe, michael roth, were hosting ministers from bulgaria and north macedonia in berlin for talks aimed toward finding a option to a dispute that could delay the long-awaited start of skopje’s eu accession talks. North macedonia’s overseas minister bujar osmani and vice high minister in fee of ecu affairs, nikola dimitrov, have both been in berlin considering monday afternoon, as has bulgaria’s overseas minister ekaterina zaharieva. Bulgaria’s zaharieva advised media on tuesday morning after talks the day prior to this that there has been “positive progress but we’re nevertheless no longer in a function to approve the [negotiating] framework” for north macedonia.