U.S. diplomacy and EU partners are exhibiting double standards towards Bulgaria but this will not alter positions in bilateral relations and one cannot expect Sofia to make concessions under outside pressure, says Angel Dimitrov, co-chair of the Bulgaria- Macedonia joint commission for historical and educational issues and former Bulgarian...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Thursday with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell in Washington, highlighting EU’s continuing support for the European perspective of the Western Balkans.
“The Secretary expressed appreciation for the EU’s continuing unequivocal support for the European perspective of the...
A police anti-smuggling operation in the north of Kosovo on Wednesday triggered a protest from local residents and incidents in the Serb-populated northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, in which one person was wounded.
The Serbian authorities called on the international Kosovo Force and Brussels to respond, and Serbian President Aleksandar...
The European Commission (EC) finds the issuance of Bulgarian passports to Macedonians a domestic matter in which it does not interfere.
The EC was quizzed by MIA after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev referred to the Macedonian nationals holding Bulgarian passports and his expectations from the Census in North Macedonia.
While the...
The European Commission has confirmed that the border management agreement between the EU and Macedonia remains blocked by Bulgaria because this country does not recognize the Macedonian language.
The agreement with an EU agency, also known as Frontex, has been stalled for three years, but Bulgaria refuses to sign it...
Bulgaria’s provocations towards Macedonia and the Macedonian people do not stop. Now it is an article in the Bulgarian “Trud” newspaper entitled “In defense of the Bulgarian Church in Macedonia”, by Spas Tasev – a member of the history institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The author says that...
But as long as the country is not making progress toward the European Union, nationalist forces will keep gaining ground and people may start looking for an alternative to the EU, President Stevo Pendarovski told Greek newspaper Kathimerini in an interview published in its Sunday edition.
He also comments on...
Chargé d’affaires at the Embassy of the Republic of North Macedonia in Moscow, Olivera Chaushevska Dimovska, was summoned at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, where she was handed a Note declaring a diplomat-second secretary a ‘persona non grata’.
The decision by the Russian Ministry to expel...
The Ministry of Health said Friday that 35,531 citizens of North Macedonia have tested positive for COVID-19 in the period between August 6 and September 30, of whom 23 percent were fully vaccinated, while a big majority of 77 percent did not receive the vaccine.
The MoH analysis shows that...
The EUobserver published Wednesday morning an exclusive internal EU document, according to which triggering the Visa Suspension Mechanism with some of the Western Balkan countries, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine is a real option, MIA reports from Brussels.
This comes during European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s Western Balkans tour,...