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Macedonia 15.06.21 | 10:02

Zaev will go to Sofia next week to plead his case with President Radev

The one concrete outcome of the NATO summit is that Zoran Zaev will visit Bulgaria next week, to again ask for the opening of EU accession talks. Zaev met with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev in Brussels – as Radev is the only leading Bulgarian official with a mandate in the period between ahead...
Macedonia 14.06.21 | 12:27

Zaev will meet with President Radev at the NATO summit in Brussels, for a new attempt to get Bulgaria to lift its veto

Zoran Zaev will meet with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev at the NATO summit in Brussels, in a new attempt to get Bulgaria to lift its veto of Macedonia’s EU accession talks. Zaev is in Brussels for Macedonia’s first NATO summit as a full member, but the occasion is overshadowed with the...
Macedonia 11.06.21 | 20:26

Blinken pushed Bulgarian President Radev on the Macedonian veto

American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke on the phone with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, and raised the issue of Bulgaria’s veto of Macedonia’s EU accession talks. The conversation comes as the State Department spokesman made a statement urging the EU countries to allow Macedonia...
Macedonia 28.05.21 | 18:45

Bulgaria plans to invite Macedonian pupils for vacation and educational programs

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev announced a donation of vaccines to Macedonia, as the country is running out, and proposed an initiative to have children from both countries take joint vacations and get to know each other better. These public diplomacy moves are announced after the joint trip by Radev...
Macedonia 27.05.21 | 16:50

Radev rejected Pendarovski’s idea of adding neutral historians to the Macedonian – Bulgarian commission

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev dismissed the idea that neutral foreign interlocutors are included in the talks between Macedonia and Bulgaria. Radev made the statement after the honoring of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Rome, which he attended alongside President Pendarovski. We have no need of other European...
Macedonia 26.05.21 | 22:09

Pendarovski is happy that at least Radev is not openly insulting Macedonia as their joint flight to Rome brings no initial results

The Presidents of Macedonia and Bulgaria, Stevo Pendarovski and Rumen Radev, had a brief meeting at the Skopje airport today before they flew together, on Radev’s plane, to Rome for the annual honoring of Ss. Cyril and Methodius. With the relations between the two countries at a low, after Bulgaria’s...
Macedonia 24.05.21 | 18:44

Bulgarian President Radev insists that Macedonia’s path to the EU goes through Sofia

Days before heading with President Pendarovski for a joint Macedonian – Bulgarian honoring of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Rome, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev warned Macedonia that “its path to the EU leaders through Bulgaria”. Radev said that he is facing increased “interest” from EU countries...
Balkans 21.05.21 | 15:57

Bulgaria will place a monument to Ss. Cyril and Methodius in the city of Dimitrovgrad in Serbia

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev will travel to the Serbian city of Dimitrovgrad on Sunday to unveil a monument to Ss. Cyril and Methodius and to discuss the position of the Bulgarian minority in Serbia with President Aleksandar Vucic. Bulgaria, which is blocking Macedonia’s EU accession talks over...
Macedonia 20.05.21 | 13:35

Zaev is hoping that Bulgarian President Radev can deliver, promises him victory in the next elections if he does

A flurry of activity is expected in the coming days as EU officials led by Portugal and German diplomats will try to get Bulgaria to allow Macedonia to open its EU accession talks, together with Albania. This would avoid the threat of having Albania advance alone which would inflict a major humiliation...
Macedonia 18.05.21 | 09:05

Bulgarian President Radev will give Pendarovski a ride for a joint trip to Rome to honor Ss. Cyril and Methodius

The Presidents of Macedonia and Bulgaria, Stevo Pendarovski and Rumen Radev, will travel together to the celebration of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Rome on May 24th. Bulgaria insists on joint honoring of the medieval saints who spread Christianity through the Slavic world, and whose “ownership”...
Macedonia 03.03.21 | 14:58

Sekerinska condemns Bulgarian President Radev’s plan to use his intelligence agencies to improve the position of Bulgarians in Macedonia

Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska criticized Bulgarian President Rumen Radev for his announcement that he will use the security and intelligence agencies to respond to the violation of human rights of Bulgarians in Macedonia. Asked about the latest escalation in the dispute between the two countries,...
Macedonia 02.03.21 | 22:02

“Zaev’s and Pendarovski’s policy of subordination to Bulgaria led to the latest threats from President Radev”

The policy of concessions and silence against threats coming from Bulgaria led to the latest escalation, when the Bulgarian President Rumen Radev announced that he will activate the intelligence and security services against Macedonia. This is a subordinate, anti-national, colonial policy of succumbing...
Macedonia 23.02.21 | 12:39

President Radev demands protection of Bulgarians in Macedonia, as an association calls for fast-track issuing of citizenships

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev sent a request to Macedonia to report on the rights and the position of the ethnic Bulgarians in Macedonia. The move comes as various political sides in Bulgaria are putting more pressure on Macedonia and as a Bulgarian association from Bitola made a request for mass issuing...
Macedonia 27.11.20 | 16:51

Bulgarian President Radev warns PM Borisov not to sign a quick deal with Zaev, but to push for permanent and irreversible changes in Macedonia

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said that his country should allow Macedonia to open EU accession talks only after Macedonia acknowledges historic facts – practically, the Bulgarian view of history, and after it “erradicates hate speech against Bulgaria” in a sustainable and irreversible...
Macedonia 05.11.20 | 11:55

Bulgaria will want written guarantees from Macedonia and possibly a new treaty, Radev tells Steinmeier

After a flurry of phone calls between Berlin – Sofia and Skopje, Bulgarian Preisdent Rumen Radev is the latest to get involved in the dispute and to have a phone call with German President Frank Walter Steinmeier. Steinmeier already spoke with Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski, who said that...
Macedonia 05.10.20 | 15:50

No clear answer from Pendarovski if he will attend a joint celebration of Ss. Cyril and Methodius with Bulgaria

President Stevo Pendarovski still hasn’t decided if he will participate in the honoring of Ss. Cyril and Methodius next May in Rome. The saints are supposed to be honored jointly by Macedonia and Bulgaria on May 24, but the event was canceled this year over the coronavirus epidemic, and as for...
Balkans 03.09.20 | 09:40

Protesters clashed with the police in downtown Sofia

Bulgarian police detained 120 protesters and over 100 officers were injured in clashes that erupted in downtown Sofia yesterday. Opposition supporters summoned by President Rumen Radev took to the streets to demand the resignation of the Boyko Borisov Government, accusing him of corruption and violations...
Macedonia 14.05.20 | 12:12

Macedonia and Bulgaria call off the planned joint honoring of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Rome because of the coronavirus

The plan to hold a joint honoring of Ss. Cyril and Methodius on May 24 between Macedonia and Bulgaria will not be implemented this year, because of the coronavirus epidemic. The two countries already called off the joint honoring of Goce Delcev on the day of his death – May 4 – as tensions...
Macedonia 19.07.19 | 11:12

President Radev warns Macedonia that Bulgaria’s support is “not unconditional”

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev warned Macedonia that it should not consider Bulgarian support for its EU accession as something that is given without preconditions. Bulgaria must be and will be the country that supports North Macedonia the most, that is our duty toward our brothers there, but it is...
Macedonia 12.05.19 | 21:54

Pendarovski met with the foreign dignitaries who came to his inauguration

Following his inauguration on Sunday, Stevo Pendarovski met with the foreign dignitaries who arrived to Skopje for the event. During his first meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Pendarovski received an invitation to come to Belgrade in Autumn. Both presidents expresed their intention to...
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