"We have declared that we want an independent Macedonian state that will become a member of the European Union as soon as possible.

If you look at the Constitution and our regulation and all the strategies of the Government, then it is very clear that we want this", said the Prime Minister of the country, Dimitar Kovacevski, regarding the referendum proposed by the Macedonian opposition.

In today's interview for the news on Channel 5, he assessed that the opposition's theses that the Macedonian language will not be recognized in the European Union and that thus our identity will be lost, are baseless.

"The first thesis of the opposition was that the Macedonian language would not be recognized in the EU, and then it was seen to be pure manipulation.

They said that the identity of the Macedonian people will be lost, but the vice president of the European Commission himself at the intergovernmental conference clearly said that the Macedonian identity will not only be protected, but that it will be an identity that will be built on the European identity.

This is the goal of EU enlargement: increasing economic, human, cultural, educational, etc. potentials.

Our people deserve to move forward.

Such a referendum will only be a step backwards", underlined Kovacevski.

Meanwhile, even though the proposal for the referendum came from the Macedonian opposition, they still do not have a clear idea about the correct formulation of the constituent question of the referendum.