Friday, April 19, 2024
There is no Bulgarian minority in Albania. Bulgaria considers the Macedonian community in Albania as Bulgarian, as in other Balkan countries, and this is connected with Sofia's policy towards Skopje - the leader of the party of Macedonians in Albania Macedonian Alliance for European Integration (MAEI) Vasil Sterjovski said...
Bulgaria has an obligation to respect the rights of minorities and to ensure that no one is discriminated against on the basis of their freely chosen identity, the UN Human Rights Office told Voice of America when asked to comment on Bulgaria's requirement to wrote the Bulgarians in the...
Diplomat Angela Price Aggeler has been confirmed as the new US ambassador to North Macedonia, the Democratic majority in the Senate tweeted on Friday. Aggeler will replace Kate Mary Byrnes, who has served as the US ambassador to Skopje since 2019. Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing...
Our cooperation is concrete, for a strong economic region ready for membership in the European Union, said Macedonian Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski, the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and the Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama at Friday's online meeting dedicated to intensifying cooperation to jointly overcome the difficulties...
A person who introduced himself as the acting ambassador of Qatar to Macedonia Jassim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, according to what can be seen in a video posted on social media, caused a serious incident after he tried to physically deal with the coaches in the football "Academy Park" where...
The Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday sent a verbal note to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry in which it strongly condemned the articles "Macedonia is Bulgaria", which could be seen in the hands of some MPs yesterday during the session on the first item in the Bulgarian National...
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić in his address to the Open Balkans on Wednesday, called on the leaders of the member states of the Initiative to form working groups that will meet in southern Serbia in order to discuss how to join forces and overcome the challenges of the...
It is a historic moment that the schism that lasted almost six decades, at the initiative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, is over, has been removed and we are entering a new period, said Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in an interview with Greek television ERT Tuesday evening and expressed satisfaction with...
MEPs this afternoon adopted the Progress Report on Macedonia of the European Parliament rapporteur, the Bulgarian MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk, with 508 votes "in favor" and 56 "against" adopting the controversial amendments, reports MIA from Brussels. The report welcomes the country's reform progress and insists on the implementation of the Good...
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, while welcoming Bulgaria for its support in terms of good neighborly relations, said that it was time for Macedonia and Albania to start accession talks with the EU, and that the EU must "keep its promise during these trying times". "I...