Tag: Bulgaria
Macedonia 30.08.23 | 20:13

Gruevski dismisses claims that Macedonia was isolated under him, reveals that Zaev gave sensitive audio-tapes to Bulgaria

Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski responded sternly to the comments from Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski that under his term, Macedonia was under international isolation. In a Facebook comment, Gruevski describes all the successes in opening Macedonia politically, diplomatically and economically...
Macedonia 29.08.23 | 21:40

Misajlovski: Bulgaria wants the assimilation of the Macedonian people

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Vladimir Misajlovski said that the end goal of the Bulgarian policy toward Macedonia is to assimilate the Macedonian people. But the Macedonians are resisting this and we see that 80 percent oppose the proposal for constitutional amendments. The Government can sense this resistance...
Macedonia 27.08.23 | 21:23

Bulgarian news outlet reacts to Serbian coverage of Macedonia

Bulgarian news outlets are reacting after several state owned or semi-official Serbian outlets published a report on Macedonia. Radio Television Serbia and daily Politika published a report about the Bulgarian pressures on Macedonia. The RTS report is titled “Will Macedonians become minority in...
Macedonia 26.08.23 | 12:52

Escobar: I don’t ask for support for the Government but for the European path of the country

In an interview with the 360 outlet, US diplomat Gabriel Escobar urged all political parties to support the amendments to the Constitution that would make the Bulgarians an official nation in the country. According to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, he is not calling on the opposition VMRO-DPMNE...
Macedonia 24.08.23 | 21:35

Bozinovski: There is no way to force VMRO MPs to vote for the amendments, elections are the most likely option

Political commentator and polling expert Vladimir Bozinovski believes that there is no chance to peel off members of Parliament from VMRO-DPMNE and get them to support the Bulgarian amendments to the Constitution. It should never have come to this. We all kept warning about this, it was clear even to...
Macedonia 18.08.23 | 22:20

Pendarovski runs to defend SDSM and DUI after their defeat in Parliament

Following the defeat of the ruling SDSM and DUI parties in Parliament today, and their failure to gain any votes from the opposition for the amendments Bulgaria requires from Macedonia, President Stevo Pendarovski did an unusually aggressive interview attacking the VMRO-DPMNE part. With its vote today,...
Macedonia 18.08.23 | 21:18

Novel idea: Maybe Bulgaria should also make some concessions

SDSM was hoping that high level international visitors will help break VMRO – similarly to the visits from the likes of Merkel, James Mattis and Theresa May in 2018 – which never the less failed to get Macedonians to vote for the imposed name change in a referendum. In the run up to this...
Macedonia 18.08.23 | 18:42

VMRO held firm, DUI-SDSM-AA failed in their first attempt to pass the Bulgarian amendments

In the Macedonian Parliament today, the coalition of DUI, SDSM and the Alliance of Albanians were unable to show enough votes to amend the Constitution in line with the Bulgarian demands. During the vote to set the agenda for the day, all VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament held firm, and the majority had...
Macedonia 16.08.23 | 12:04

Zaharieva revealed Bulgaria’s wishes: It is best if there are no borders between our countries

The Republic of Macedonia must implement the necessary reforms and meet the conditions if it wants to start the negotiations with the EU, ex-MoFA of Bulgaria, and Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs, Ekaterina Zaharieva, said on Wednesday commenting on the pending voting on...
Macedonia 16.08.23 | 10:37

Bulgarians did not pick Goce Delcev in a poll of their main national heroes

A poll conducted in Bulgaria over who is the most important national hero in the country’s history did not include Goce Delcev – even though Bulgarian historians and politicians are trying to push Macedonia to declare him as a Bulgarian. The list is dominated by the leading Bulgarian revolutionary...
Macedonia 10.08.23 | 21:49

Aggeler: Corruption continues to be the biggest challenge facing this country

US Ambassador to Macedonia Angela Aggeler again warned that corruption is the worst issue that the country faces. Corruption continues to be one of if not the biggest challenge facing this country. It was when I was here before and frankly it has also been a systemic problem since independence. So one...
Macedonia 09.08.23 | 17:49

Bulgarian MEP Kyuchyuk warns Macedonia that it will fall behind Albania

Bulgarian member of the European Parliament Ilhan Kyuchyuk warned Macedonia that it will fall behind Albania in its EU accession if it doesn’t approve the Bulgarian demands for constitutional amendments. Without amending the Constitution, Macedonia really can’t begin negotiations with the...
Macedonia 09.08.23 | 14:51

Professor Friedman: Only in the period of fascism, when the Bulgars beat the Macedonian children who spoke Macedonian, this language was a Bulgarian dialect

The Macedonian language is a separate Slavic language like Bulgarian, Serbian, and Croatian. The current problems will be somehow solved, but the Macedonian language exists and it will continue to exist, Professor Victor Friedman Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, perhaps the greatest American and...
Macedonia 05.08.23 | 12:31

Kovachevski’s silence about the Bulgarian provocations on Ilinden points to the the possibility that he already accepted the Bulgarian narrative

For two days Kovachevski, Osmani, and Marichikj are hiding from the public after the insukts and the humilation from Sofia on Ilinden, VMRO-DPMNE reacted on Suturday. “The Bulgarian President and PM, that is to say, the entire Bulgarian political leadership bulgarized the Ilinden Uprising, presenting...
Balkans 05.08.23 | 09:53

Bulgaria could veto Serbia over its demand for reciprocity in minority rights

Bulgaria strongly protested against the statement from Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, who demands equal treatment in minoritu issues between the two countries. Similarly to its approach toward Macedonia, where Bulgaria blocks the country’s EU accession as it demands that the Bulgarian minority...
Macedonia 04.08.23 | 11:10

Bulgaria appropriates Ilinden, Kovachevski is silent

Kovachevski, Marichikj, and Osmani really embarrassed themselves on this IlinThey celebrated it without mentioning that it is a Macedonian holiday and abused it to convince the people that the constitutional amendments are good, despite that 80% of the people are against them, VMRO-DPMNE reacts in its...
Macedonia 03.08.23 | 20:11

Records from Bulgaria show that Ilinden was a Macedonian uprising

The 120th anniversary of Ilinden reignited the dispute between Macedonia and Bulgaria – after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev came out with a position that Ilinden is a Bulgarian uprising. But photographs from Sofia, of the subsequent celebrations of Ilinden, show that it was always considered...
Macedonia 02.08.23 | 16:04

Radev congratulated Pendarovski on “this significant event from the two countries’ joint history

The head of the Bulgarian state Rumen Radev congratulated the Macedonian President on the state holiday Ilinden – Day of the Republic, Radev’s press service informed. The Bulgarian President writes that this year we mark the 120th anniversary of the Ilinden – Preobrazhenie Uprising...
Macedonia 31.07.23 | 21:16

Professor Siljanovska Davkova: DUI’s ministers resignations are a mere political maneuver

The so-called resignations submitted by DUI ministers are a simulation and a political maneuver. The constitutional procedure is very clear – the submitted resignations must be immediately sent to Parliament to decide, or in this case, to accept their resignations, professor Gordana Siljanovska...
Macedonia 30.07.23 | 13:02

Bulgarian representatives demand that the EU responds to the stabbing of a Levski fan in Skopje

A group of Bulgarian members of the European Parliament came out with a request that the EU responds to the assault on Bulgarian football fans during the Shkupi – Levski match on Thursday. One of the Levski fans was stabbed while trying to drive through Cair, a majority Albanian neighborhood in...
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