Members of the European Parliament expressed their concern about the political situation in Macedonia, at the session of the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee AFET. MIA correspondent reports that speakers saw the political crisis as deepening and threatening the European prospects of Macedonia. Maltese diplomat Jan Borg, who spoke on behalf of the Council of Europe, said that there is a culture of polarisation and divide in Macedonian politics, as well as deficiencies in the judicial system. Borg expressed his concern that no Government was formed in Macedonia after the December elections. Any future Government, Borg said, would need to support the work of the Special Prosecutor's Office and implement judicial reforms. European Commissioner Neven Mimica of Croatia called on President Gjorge Ivanov to allow the Government forming process to go on and called on parties not to make inter­ethnic relations more tense than they are.

(Utrinski Vesnik; Telma; MTV1; MIA)