Tag: historians
Macedonia 28.12.23 | 21:12

Macedonian historians call on the EU to stop imposing Bulgaria’s demands

A group of scholars and historians issued a joint call to the European Union and the United States to put an end to the Bulgarian demands and blackmail against Macedonia. Bulgaria is blocking Macedonia from opening its EU accession talks as it demands changes to the Macedonian Constitution and accepted...
Macedonia 17.02.23 | 21:03

Macedonian and Bulgarian historians met to discuss rewriting textbooks as tensions rise between the two countries

Members of the historic commission between Macedonia and Bulgaria met over the past two days in Sofia to discuss changes to the history textbooks and other issues. The meeting comes at a time of high tension between the two countries following a number of incidents, beatings, attacks on cultural centers...
Macedonia 30.10.22 | 11:12

Historians welcome the opening of the Macedonian cultural center in Blagoevgrad

A 50 strong group of Macedonian historians issued a statement welcoming the opening of a Macedonian cultural center in Blagoevgrad, after decades of pressure from Bulgarian authorities to prevent any type of activities by Macedonian organizations. Your persistence and dedication over the years finally...
Macedonia 04.02.22 | 09:46

Association of Historians of Macedonia says joint commemoration of Delcev is fatal blow to Macedonian identity

We express revolt and concern over the announcements that Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia are preparing a joint celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Goce Delcev, said the Association of Historians of the Republic of Macedonia. If such a political decision is really made, it would...
Macedonia 22.10.21 | 21:17

Following a high level protest resignation, Macedonian and Bulgarian historians failed to make progress in their meeting

Following the resignation of Macedonian historian Vanco Gjorgjiev, the joint committee of historians with Bulgaria continued its work today but reached no conclusions. The Zaev regime was desperate for progress in this online meeting, hoping it would allow Bulgaria to lift its veto against Macedonia’s...
Macedonia 11.06.21 | 20:20

Meeting of the historic commission fails – Macedonian historians say that some of the Bulgarian proposals were “insulting”

The online meeting of the Commission of Macedonian and Bulgarian historians ended in failure today, as the two teams failed to find common ground on all issues that were raised. The meeting is the last before the European Council and the lack of movement could push Bulgaria to harden its position to...
Macedonia 11.06.21 | 17:41

Macedonian and Bulgarian historians hold their last meeting ahead of the European Council

Macedonian and Bulgarian historians are holding a new round of talks – a third such meeting for this year. So far there are no report coming out of the meeting. Macedonian historians in the commission accepted a number of initial Bulgarian demands, but the talks began to collapse last year, as...
Macedonia 25.02.21 | 11:13

Macedonian and Bulgarian historians meet to discuss Goce Delcev and other disputed issues

The Macedonian – Bulgarian committee of historians begins a new round of meetings today, which will again focus on the disputed legacy of Goce Delcev and on Macedonian 7th grade history books. The two deadlocked teams will also try to agree on accepting the minutes from the previous meeting –...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 16:00

Zaev makes a major concession to Bulgaria – then pushes historians to defend it

Even though Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced that he expects a break-through in the discussion between Macedonian and Bulgarian historians, he left it to the historians to explain what the huge “success” is all about. as Dragan Georgiev, the Macedonian co-chairman of the committee explained,...
Macedonia 22.01.21 | 11:19

Macedonian and Bulgarian historians will hold a technical meeting

The joint Macedonian – Bulgarian committee of historians is meeting today for what is expected to be a technical meeting. The work of the committee is stalled as the Bulgarian demands for concessions continue to grow and Macedonian historians opted to avoid meeting rather than be pressured. Several...
Macedonia 15.12.20 | 08:13

Nikoloski: Zaev plans to replace the historians on the Macedonian – Bulgarian committee with more obedient ones

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski warned that Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will try to replace some of the members of the joint committee of historians with Bulgaria, after they refused to accept his orders. Bulgaria demands major concessions and the right to rewrite Macedonian history, but...
Macedonia 03.12.20 | 09:08

Desperate to achieve some progress, Macedonian historians will meet with their Bulgarian counterparts today

The joint committee of historians between Macedonia and Bulgaria will meet online today and tomorrow, to discuss aligning the historic narratives of the two countries on the medieval period and the time of the early Ottoman conquest. This period is relatively less contentious, compared to the period...
Macedonia 24.11.20 | 19:34

Nikoloski: Macedonian historians prevented Zaev from making additional, disastrous concessions

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski praised the group of Macedonian historians appointed to the joint committee with Bulgaria for doing their job well. Nikoloski said that if it weren’t for their resistance, Zoran Zaev would have imposed many additional concessions on Macedonia, on issues...
Macedonia 27.04.20 | 19:00

Borisov demands that joint historic commission urgently resumes its work, decides on all disputed historic figures “one by one”

In an interview with Sitel TV, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said that he demands that the joint commission on historic issues between Macedonia and Bulgaria urgently resumes its work. Borisov was evasive when asked whether Bulgaria will veto Macedonia from opening EU accession talks, but laid...
Macedonia 14.10.19 | 19:16

Zaev meets historians prior to Tuesday’s Macedonian-Bulgarian Joint Expert Committee meeting

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev met Monday with our historians, who are members of the Macedonian-Bulgarian Joint Expert Committee on Historical and Educational Issues, established under the agreement on good neighborly relations with Bulgaria. Today’s talks, according to the government’s press...
Macedonia 23.02.19 | 18:31

Minister Zaharieva claims Bulgaria won a major concession from Macedonian historians

Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva claimed as a major diplomatic win the fact that Macedonian historians acknowledged that the medieval kingdom of Tsar Samoil was a Bulgarian kingdom. Zaharieva was referring to the results of the latest round of discussions in the Joint commission...

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