The European Parliament Petitions Committee considered and accepted the petition of the Bulgarian journalist MihailMihajlov in support of Macedonia and the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria and against the violation of civil rights in the country.
– I am pleased to inform you that the Petitions Committee has reviewed your petition and declared it admissible. “Accordingly, I have asked the European Commission to conduct a preliminary inquiry into this matter,” said Dolors Montserrat, member of the European Parliament’s Petitions Committee, in response to a petition he submitted to the Parliamentary Committee on December 12 last year.
In response to the response, Mihajlov expressed hope that it would give additional impetus to political parties in Bulgaria “to respect human rights and the right to national self-determination, as well as to give the “green light” for Macedonia’s membership in the European Union”.
