Zoran Zaev

As diplomats from Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) prepare to resume talks in Vienna on Wednesday, European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn on Tuesday expressed optimism that the dispute could be resolved in the next two weeks.

A feud between two opposing camps inside the small ethnic Albanian BESA party has created another headache for the Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who would like to see all the party's five MPs in his government, boosting its wafer-thin majority.

Tanjug is reporting this on Thursday, citing the Albanian language website portalb.mk, which said Crvenkovski and Ivanov had been invited, "but did not attend."

Mogherini's speech, meanwhile, was covered by a large number of media outlets from Macedonia and the region.

The dinner was organized by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev "for representatives of the Western Balkans as part of the visit of Mogherini to the region."

The topics discussed were European integration, current political and security situation, as well as regional political and economic cooperation, a statement said.

"Both sides are committed to this process at the highest level, and it is necessary to reach an agreement that will serve the interests of both countries," said Hahn, who is in charge of EU's neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations.

The European Commission could recommend on Tuesday opening the accession negotiations for two Balkan countries, Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, New Europe reported.

Skopje and Athens agreed this year to intensify negotiations to end the dispute blocking FYROM's accession to the European Union and NATO.

The government of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has survived a vote of no confidence that was requested by the main opposition party MRO-DPMNE and was being watched closely in Athens amid ongoing talks on the "Macedonia" name talks.

The parliament of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has begun debating a no-confidence motion by the conservative opposition, which argues that the country's 11-month-old Social Democrat government has failed to control corruption or halt economic stagnation.

The Republic of Macedonia will build, reconstruct and renovate 60 routes with a total length of 800 km. A total of 270 million euros are provided for this purpose. This was announced by Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who presented the government's strategy and plans for building the road infrastructure.

The Public Prosecution filed terrorism charges against 30 people, including former interior minister and chief of the uniformed police force Mitko Cavkov, opposition right-wing VMRO DPMNE MPs, police employees and activists over the rampage in parliament on April 27 last year.