Tag: language
Macedonia 30.08.24 | 22:21

Greek court orders the closure of the Macedonian language center in Lerin

In a lengthy verdict, the Greek Appeals Court in Kozani overruled a 2023 decision by the local court in Lerin (Florina) and ordered the Macedonian language center in this city to be closed. The center was meant to offer Macedonian language courses to the large Macedonian community in Lerin, that has...
Macedonia 15.04.23 | 22:28

Osmani spoke in Albanian during his meeting with the Spanish Foreign Minister

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani used Albanian during his recent meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares. This is in violation of the Ohrid treaty and the Constitution. Bujar Osmani needs to respond which country is he representing and who is paying his salary. Prime Minister Kovacevski...
Macedonia 21.02.23 | 22:50

Mickoski: We must nurture and protect the Macedonian language as we face absurd attacks

Every work of art on Macedonian language is priceless treasure, part of our national heritage that must grow, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski during a party event organized to honor the International mother language day. The language is the guardian not only of the identity of the person...
Macedonia 05.05.22 | 11:41

Pendarovski: Honoring the Macedonian language is our basic human right

Today we honor our uniqueness, the foundation of our identity and our linguistic pride, said President Stevo Pendarovski on the Day of the Macedonian language. In his statement, Pendarovski referenced authors such as Blaze Koneski, Aco Sopov and Slavko Janevski, as founders of the Macedonian language. Our...
Macedonia 05.05.22 | 10:41

Day of the Macedonian language

Macedonia today marks the Day of the Macedonian language. The recent holiday – established in 2019 by an order of the Zaev Government at a time of increased Bulgarian pressure to redefine Macedonian national identity – marks the day in 1945 when the decision to adopt the Macedonian alphabet...
Macedonia 22.02.22 | 10:49

Mirko Popov: Macedonians and Bulgarians speak more or less the same language

Mirko Popov, techno musician and one of the outspoken supporters of the SDSM led Colored Revolution, came out in support of Macedonia continuing to negotiate with Bulgaria and make concessions. In a heated debate with other former Colored Revolution activists, who pointed out to Popov that the compromises...
Macedonia 21.02.22 | 15:55

Mickoski: Our language is our only undivided home country

The native language is the most important designation of the identity of a nation and of its culture. It is the identity of the people, as Blaze Koneski would say, it is our only undivided home country, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski during an event in Gostivar on the International Mother...
Macedonia 11.10.21 | 16:38

As threat grows of an Afghan migrant wave, Macedonia is left without a Frontex mission because of the language dispute with Bulgaria

The European Commission informed the MIA news agency that the agreement with Frontex, meant to help patrol the Macedonian borders and prevent illegal migrant crossings, remains blocked because of the dispute over the Macedonian language with Bulgaria. Bulgaria does all it can to stop the establishment...
Macedonia 27.07.21 | 17:06

MANU President Ljupco Kocarev responds to the Bulgarian claims aimed at the Macedonian language

Languages are formed over a long period of time and over a broad space, and unlike nation states, which have a specific time of establishment and clearly defined sovereignty, languages are complex, adaptable, and are established over hundreds of years, long before the nation states. They know not of...
Macedonia 20.06.21 | 11:04

Zaev still hasn’t addressed media reports that he offered to declare that the Macedonian and the Bulgarian are the same language

Zoran Zaev has refused to address directly the reports in Bulgarian media outlets, that he was offering a new formula on the Macedonian language – under which it would be declared as the same language as the Bulgarian, just internationally recognized as separate from it. Zaev visited Sofia this...
Macedonia 18.06.21 | 13:51

Zaev offered to declare that the Macedonian and the Bulgarian languages are the same

Bulgarian media outlets are reporting that a possible concessions Zoran Zaev is going to make to the Bulgarian side is to declare that the Macedonian language is identical to the Bulgarian. Zaev was in Sofia yesterday, for a desperate, last minute attempt to get Bulgaria to approve the opening of EU...
Macedonia 07.06.21 | 18:29

Zaev makes another public promise to protect the Macedonian language as reports grow that he offers new concessions to Bulgaria

Amid multiple warnings that he is preparing to make new, deep concessions to Bulgaria, Zoran Zaev today issued a statement marking the anniversary of the publication of the first orthography of the Macedonian language. In his remarks Zaev notes that “the Macedonian language went through all the...
Macedonia 03.03.21 | 11:46

Academic Kocarev encourages Macedonian language professors to resist plans to cancel their university department

Ljupco Kocarev, President of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a top critic of the imposed name and identity change, is not backing down under pressure from media outlets and academics associated with the Zaev regime. Kocarev is under coordinated attack after claiming that the Philological...
Macedonia 07.12.20 | 11:00

Three statements confirming that Zaev is selling the Macedonian identity and language

Zaev sells the Macedonian identity! 28.11.2020 Zoran Zaev The Macedonian language and the Macedonian identity are not on the negotiating table. Nowhere in the world is identity and one’s mother tongue negotiated. Bulgaria recognizes the reality of the Macedonian language and Macedonian identity. 4.12.2020...
Macedonia 28.11.20 | 10:17

Foreign Minister Osmani confirms Bulgarian claims toward the Macedonian nation and language

In an interview with 360 Degrees, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani confirmed that one of the demands Bulgaria has put before Macedonia is that the country accepts that the Macedonian nation and language have derived from Bulgarians and the western Bulgarian dialects. This is the text that was officially...
Macedonia 01.10.20 | 22:15

Bulgaria moves to solidify its claim on Ss. Cyril and Methodius

Acting on a proposal from a nationalist coalition partner, the Bulgarian Parliament renamed the day of Slavic literacy (May 24) into the day of Bulgarian literacy. The day honors the beginning of the proselytizing mission of Ss. Cyril and Methodius to Moravia. Macedonia and Bulgaria both celebrate the...
Macedonia 18.07.20 | 15:11

Professor Kulafkova announces the publication of her thesis on the Macedonian language

Leading linguist professor Katica Kulafkova announced the publication of her thesis during the presentation of the four volume edition on the Macedonian language, published by the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The work is meant to represent an answer to the Bulgarian Academy and politicians...
Economy 10.07.20 | 13:25

Greek products in Macedonia are imported with a declaration in () language

An empty space between two brackets. That’s the language in which Greek products are imported into Macedonia. The declarations of the products from Greece have the language labels of the countries where they are exported, the abbreviation of the country where those products are sold. But not in...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 22:34

Zaev repeats his claim that the Macedonian language is becoming an official EU language

In an interview, SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev repeated his claim that the publication of a draft negotiating framework by the European Commission ensures that the Macedonian language is an official language of the European Union. The framework, which is subject to amendments from EU member states, declares...
Macedonia 02.07.20 | 14:32

Government leaks the EU document that refers to the Macedonian language

The Macedonian Information Agency leaked a portion of the EU draft negotiating framework, where the Macedonian language is named clearly and without any adjectives or explanations. “North” Macedonia will need to produce translations of the acquis into Macedonian in good time before accession,...
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