The Institute of National History reacts that the European integration of the Macedonian nation must not be conditioned by the ultimate acceptance of “historical truths” by other national historiographies.

The Institute cannot stay silent in conditions when politics directly affect science and especially when political memoranda qualify an entire nation and historical science as forgery and call for a complete revision of the history of the Macedonian people and nation, the Institute of National History said.

Belgian historian Raymond Detrez, said in an interview with Deutsche Welle that the building of the Macedonian nation is no different from others, including the Bulgarian one.

The formation of the Bulgarian nation, according to “eyewitnesses” such as Aprilov, Rakovski, Balabanov and others, began in the 1930s and coincided with the reforms of the Ottoman state known as the Tanzimat. Petko Slavejkov informs us about the first manifestations of something like the Macedonian national ideology in an article in the newspaper “Makedonija” from 1871, says Detrez.

The Croatian “Novi List” based in Rijeka, on the other hand, in an analysis of Macedonian-Bulgarian relations, writes that Greece and Bulgaria, upon joining the EU, have accepted the basic agreements of the Union and the rules of conduct, therefore, everything that has happened in the past thirty years – Macedonia is a mirror of the real situation in the Union.