Tag: Bulgaria
Macedonia 11.04.23 | 13:35

Macedonians and Bulgarians have shortest life expectancy in the region

Macedonians and Bulgarians have the lowest life expectancy in the region and among the lowest in Europe, data from UN compiled by Landgeist shows. Macedonians live 75.7 years on average, and only Bulgarians have lower life expectancy in the region – 74.9. In Europe, Ukraine and Russia are at 72...
Macedonia 11.04.23 | 00:31

Nikoloski: Under the Bulgarian proposal, the Macedonians will be put on equal footing with the Bulgarians

If the request for constitutional amendments is accepted, Macedonians will be made equal to the Bulgarians in the Constitution, warned VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski. During a Sitel TV interview, Nikoloski reiterated that VMRO wants to have the Croatian constitutional model introduced...
Macedonia 10.04.23 | 12:18

The Government is going to debate itself on the Bulgarian amendments

The main opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, as well as parties like Alternative, Levica, SPM and DS, announced that they will not nominate members to the committee that will draft amendments for the constitutional change that Bulgaria wants. This means that the parties from the ruling majority will be debating...
Macedonia 08.04.23 | 11:50

Spasenovski: There is fear that Bulgaria will keep blocking us even after the Constitution is amended

There are fears that even if amendments are made to the Constitution, the country will continue to face new blockades from Sofia, said law professor Aleksandar Spasenovski, discussing Bulgarian demands that Macedonia must include the Bulgarian nation in its Constitution. The red lines were supposed to...
Macedonia 07.04.23 | 19:14

French Ambassador to Bulgaria tells Macedonia it will have to change its history books

French Ambassador to Bulgaria Joel Meyer assured the Bulgarian public that Macedonia will have to amend its history books in accordance with the Bulgarian positions that are being inserted through the joint historic commission. Bulgaria is blocking Macedonia’s EU accession talks and demands that...
Macedonia 06.04.23 | 21:23

Milkov: Bulgaria wants constitutional changes and guarantees that the rights of Bulgarians in Macedonia will be protected

Bulgarian caretaker Nikolay Milkov spoke out about his recent request that Macedonia allows Bulgarian representatives in the team that will propose the Constitutional amendments that Bulgaria wants Macedonia to adopt. The request was immediately rejected by both the Foreign Ministry and, in harsh terms,...
Macedonia 06.04.23 | 20:12

Prosecution will try to prove that Hristijan Pendikov was attacked because he is a Bulgarian

During the trial over the beating of Hristijan Pendikov in Ohrid, the prosecution said that they will prove that Pendikov was attacked because of ethnic hatred, after he began declaring himself as a Bulgarian. Prosecutors said that they have evidence that the attacker Ilija Spaseski told Pendikov that...
Macedonia 05.04.23 | 09:19

Macedonian and Bulgarian historians made some progress in aligning their positions on the Archbishopric of Ohrid

Dragi Gjorgjiev, head of the Macedonian team in the joint historic commission with Bulgaria, said that they have reached some progress during their meeting last week on the historic narrative about the Ohrid Archbishopric. The two teams are aligning the historic narratives of the two countries –...
Balkans 04.04.23 | 09:24

Bulgaria: Borisov won the elections but can’t form a Government

The results of the elections in Bulgaria were declared. The GERB-SDS coalition won the elections, with almost 670,000 votes, ahead of the PP-DB coalition with about 620,000 votes. Both groups will have about 70 seats in Parliament – well short of the 121 seats needed to form a Government. The nationalist,...
Macedonia 03.04.23 | 19:16

Kovacevski hopes that Bulgaria will elect a Government that will respect Macedonia and will lift the veto

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski discussed yesterday’s inconclusive elections in Bulgaria and said that he hopes the country will form a Governmetn that will support all its neighbors in their EU integrations and builds good-neighborly relations. They have had a technical government for a long...
Balkans 03.04.23 | 12:03

Bulgarian nationalist party wins third place in the elections

The elections in Bulgaria propelled the nationalist Rebirth party to third place. Kostadin Kostadinov’s pro-Russian outfit went ahead of the Turkish DPS party, and placed itself behind only the leading GERB party and the PP-DB coalition. This could mean trouble for Macedonia, if any of the leading...
Balkans 03.04.23 | 09:45

Another deadlocked election in Bulgaria

Bulgaria had another inconclusive election, the fifth in three years. The conservative GERB party of Boyko Borisov is practically tied with the youth-urban coalition of PP and DB led by Kiril Petkov. Both groups are going to have about 70 seats in Parliament, far below the 121 votes needed to form a...
Macedonia 02.04.23 | 11:21

Bulgaria votes for the fifth time in two years, no change expected in its policy toward Macedonia

Bulgaria holds its fifth general elections in less than two years today, and the polls predict that there won’t be a decisive winner again. The conservative GERB party led by Boyko Borisov faces the recently formed PP-DB urban vote coalition with Kiril Petkov at the helm, and both are tied in the...
Macedonia 01.04.23 | 21:59

Vane Cvetanov will seek legal protection in Bulgaria

Vane Cvetanov, a former low level Government official best known for switching sides from VMRO to SDSM and being investigated for abuse of office and extortion by both sides, announced that he is fleeing to Bulgaria. Cvetanov recently began sharing pro-Bulgarian nationalist positions on his social media...
Macedonia 31.03.23 | 14:15

Klekovski: SDSM tries to portray VMRO-DPMNE as “anti-Western”

Civic activist and VMRO-DPMNE official Saso Klekovski accused the Government of trying to label the opposition as “anti-European” and “anti-Western”, because it objects to the latest round of nationalist demands from Bulgaria – that Macedonia must amend its Constitution...
Macedonia 30.03.23 | 13:28

SDSM Government official expects that all members of Parliament will support the Bulgarian demands

Deputy Justice Minister Viktorija Avramovska – Madic said that she expects all 120 members of Parliament, including those from VMRO-DPMNE and Levica, to support the Bulgarian demands to amend the Constitution and include the Bulgarians in the preamble. The Government makes statesman-like decisions....
Macedonia 30.03.23 | 09:42

Stevco Jakimovski supports VMRO in opposition the Bulgarian demands

Despite his differences of opinion with VMRO-DPMNE, the Mayor of Karpos Stevco Jakimovski came out in support of the opposition party’s position on the Bulgarian demands for constitutional amendments. We absolutely take the same position. The problem are not the Bulgarians as a people, but their...
Macedonia 24.03.23 | 12:41

Kovacevski tells Bulgaria to act according to the rulings of the European Court

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski called on Bulgaria to respect the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights, in which it was determined that the rights of Macedonians in their country were violated. He pointed out that the Bulgarian authorities should respect the rights of Macedonian citizens who...
Balkans 15.03.23 | 16:01

Bulgaria is facing Bankruptcy, says its Ministry of Finance

Bulgaria is threatened with bankruptcy. There is a serious problem in maintaining fiscal stability, Novinite reports. There is a risk of a change in the existing exchange rate of the leva against the euro. Our accession to the Eurozone has to be postponed indefinitely. Borrowing from the IMF may be...
Balkans 14.03.23 | 10:21

Bulgarian lobbyists demand that EU declares “Day of Bulgaria for the rescue of Jews”

Bulgaria apparently wastes no time in presenting its truth about the deportation of the Jews and uses (abuses) EU membership. The latest initiative comes from Bulgarian lobbyists headed by a certain Dzerasi who sent an initiative to the EU to declare “Day of Bulgaria for the rescue of Jews”. The...
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