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President of North Macedonia: If Bulgaria insists on disputing our identity, we should stop the EU accession negotiations

After the meeting with the members of the Security Council I said that after the French proposal is submitted to the Government , I expect to see in the Government's conclusions a statement that starting from the day we start and end the EU accession negotiations, if there are additional efforts from the Bulgarian authorities to impose questions...

Prime Minister of North Macedonia: We don’t need the EU at the cost of the Macedonian language and identity

We don't need the European Union at the cost of the Macedonian identity and language, since we shall be like dust lost to the wind even after we join the EU, said today Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev during his visit to Resen. He is hoping that a solution will be found for the dispute with Bulgaria in...

Truthmeter.mk: Only Ekaterina Zaharieva sees equality between late Yugoslav President Tito and Hitler

The historical facts state that Josip Broz Tito was the organizer and the leader of the partisan movement in Yugoslavia starting from 1941 until the end of WWII. Without a doubt, his rule was undemocratic, there were weaknesses and could be criticized, but it is absurd to compare him to Hitler. And even if Tito was really the harshest...

Shekerinska reacts to Karakachanov’s “regiment”: The communication between allies shouldn’t be in this manner

"Bulgaria is a NATO member and so are we. The communication between the allies shouldn't be in this manner," said Radmila Shekerinska - Jankovska, Defense Minister of North Macedonia, commenting the statement of her Bulgarian counterpart Кrassimir Karakachanov, who said he will "send an engineering regiment" in Macedonia to remove all of the monuments with the plaques that mention...

The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts publishes Linguistic Atlas of Macedonian Dialects

The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA) published a Linguistic Atlas of Macedonian Dialects, with 50 dialectic maps that cover the Macedonian dialects territory represented through the network of the populated places within the frame of the General Slavic Linguistic Atlas (OLA). "With this international project, for the first time in the Slavic linguistics, according to a unique program...

The first government session with interpretation to and from Albanian

The Government has announced that at its 117th session the Albanian ministers for the first time spoke Albanian, in accordance with provisions of the Law on the Use of Languages. This law was published in the "Official Gazette" even though it did not receive the President Gjorge Ivanov's signature. Government changes to the abortion law were accepted, while previous restrictions were abolished, and a...

Macedonian remains the only official language throughout the whole territory

The Law on Languages ​​promotes the rights of all minority communities and does not foresee new employment. The Macedonian language with the Cyrillic alphabet remains the only official language throughout the whole territory of the Republic of Macedonia and its international relations, said the Government in today's statement regarding fake news and untruths about the application of the Law on the Use of...

Ana Kocheva from BAN disputes Macedonian language while forgetting the revivalists

Associate Professor Ana Kocheva, linguist from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAN) in an interview with the web-portal "Dir.BG" published yesterday, said that the Macedonian language was created in 1944 as a result of Serbia's partial success in a project to unite of all the South Slavs. In the interview, the journalist speaks of "the Bulgarian character of the so-called...

Karakachanov ignores history and even agreements signed by his own government

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov and President of the VMRO-BND, followed by Bulgarian MEP Andrej Kovachev of the GERB, both members of the Bulgarian political right-wing party, have expressed severe views regarding the Macedonian national identity this weekend and threatened to block Macedonia's membership in the EU and NATO if Macedonia continues to talk about the Macedonian...

Both Skopje and Athens deny that an annex to the Prespa Agreement is being prepared in the UN

The Greek media has speculated that both Skopje and Athens have officially dictated that, "Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will ask the UN to approve an additional protocol that will make the Prespa Agreement more precise in the sense that it will give a very limited space for language and nation." According to government spokesman Mile Bosnjakovski, it is a...

Borisov said it all, apart from the term “Macedonian language”

At today's press conference, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov with his Macedonian counterpart, Zoran Zaev, while answering questions from reporters on which language the agreement on good neighborly relations will be signed in, he replied that the agreement will be "in the language that is stated in the Constitution" of Macedonia. “The details, in fact, are important, but not for...