Tag: Bulgaria

Dr. Rumena Filipova is DPhil and MPhil in International Relations, University of Oxford, having completed her undergraduate studies at the university of Cambridge. She taught undergraduate courses at Oxford University, and she has been a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center, the Polish Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House and other international institutes and think-tanks. Dr. Filipova is now...

Ivan Georgiev is reporter and anchor of bTV, one of Bulgaria’s main TV stations. He has covered some of the leading international and regional events in the past few years,  Macedonia included to a large extent. Ivan is author of numerous short documentaries. In 2012 he was awarded with the World Press Institute Fellowship. He is also holder of several...

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Dimitrov, believes that our country and Bulgaria share common goals and that it will be possible to find a way through mutual friendship and respect, to resolve the problems that erupted in the previous period. - I am convinced that our country and Bulgaria share major common goals. As neighbors that signed the Treaty on...

In Brussels this week, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov told reporters that Macedonians still need to mature in order to get a date to start EU accession talks, Bulgarian news agency BGNES reported. "They need to fix much more. Don't get me wrong, but as long as they dispute whether Goce Delchev is Bulgarian or Macedonian - that is a...

MP Krasimir Bogdanov from the "United Patriots" party has asked that fines are given to Bulgarian television stations who translate from Macedonian to Bulgarian at a parliamentary panel hearing in Bulgarian Parliament for an annual report by the Bulgarian Council for Electronic Media (an equivalent of the Macedonian Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media services). News portal "Klub Z" reports...

Georgi Boshnakov, a businessman who owned a company for waste recycling, was traveling from Ohrid to Sofia with his 2 daughters and his wife, when he crashed with his Cessna airplane near Solunska Glava. The Cessna P21OH airplane which disappeared from radars yesterday afternoon near Solunska Glava, has crashed near this mountain top. The remains of the...

Yesterday, Bulgarian daily newspaper, "24 Chasa" published an article that apparently refers to the work of the joint Macedonian-Bulgarian Commission on textbooks and history, however, it in fact represents another history lesson, in the eyes of Bulgarian national-romanticists. The article, that portrays traditional Bulgarian historical views, does not take into account the facts that have been established by Macedonian historians,...

While Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece are actively working to build high-speed railways, Macedonia is fast asleep. In a several years, our country could encounter serious problems with the low speeds of the trains, taking into account the pace of development of the railway infrastructures in neighbouring countries. This year, Greece plans to complete the production of the high speed track...

With 140 votes in favor of and without any withheld or against, this morning, the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria ratified the Protocol for the Accession of the Republic of North Macedonia into NATO. The session was attended by the President of the Macedonian Parliament, Talat Xhaferi and the Vice Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign...

On Wednesday, Bulgarian Parliament is scheduled to ratify the Protocol for Macedonia membership in NATO. Macedonian Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi is expected to attend the ratification of the Protocol. The Parliamentary Defense Committee approved the Protocol on February 15 and recommended that MPs adopt it. President of the Commission, Konstantin Popov said that North Macedonia can count on Bulgaria's full support and...

The mixed Macedonian-Bulgarian Expert Committee for educational issues that was formed in accordance with the Good Neighborly Agreement will have meetings again on the 19th and the 20th of February in Skopje. The representative of the Bulgarian part of the Committee, Angel Dimitrov, announced that he will talk about joint celebrations of persons and events from, as he said,...

For the first time in six years, Bulgarian civil society organizations organize the Big Brother Awards, a means to shame the worst violators of citizens’ privacy during the previous year. Internet Society Bulgaria and Access to Information Program in Bulgaria call for nominations of governmental bodies, companies and persons which have violated or violate the privacy of citizens and personal...

While reporting on Saturday and yesterday about the vote in Macedonian Parliament, where four constitutional amendments were adopted, which, among other things, Macedonian MPs accepted the change of the name of the Republic of Macedonia, most of the media and some news agencies in neighboring Bulgaria and Serbia, wrote headlines and in part of the texts that Macedonia was...

A lamppost in a village near Blagoevgrad is the address for thousands of Macedonians holding a Bulgarian passport, and is a part of the grand scheme of a sale of Bulgarian citizenships for money, said Katja Maneva in an interview for EU Observer. She is a former director for citizenships at the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice. She has worked...

The government has announced that Pope Francis will be visiting Macedonia on May 7th, next year, after being invited by the state government. For now, it is certain that the head of the Roman Catholic Church will visit Skopje, the birthplace of the holy Mother Teresa. For more details of the visit, the Government will release more details closer to the...

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...

At the next government session between the Macedonian and Bulgarian government, most likely to be held in December, the joint multi-disciplinary expert commission on historical and educational issues, set up under the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighbourliness and Cooperation, will discuss progress and expectations, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in response to a parliamentary question on changes to textbooks. "It...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov ordered the Ministry of Interior and the state agency "National Security" to check all of the Bulgarian personal documents that were issued to foreigners in the last 5 years. According to Bulgarian media, in the last 15 years, almost 90.000 people were granted Bulgarian passports. As Bulgarian media report, Borisov has asked for the...

Political elite of our neighbor must show maturity and find a way to solve difficult problems. The pledge is the future of the state and the future of all its citizens. This is written in its position by the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "The referendum is the highest democratic practice - with the expressed will of those who participated...

Do not doubt - the friendship between Macedonia and Bulgaria is sincere. Together we will celebrate and honour our past and on its foundation we will continue building our common future, wrote Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on the social network "Facebook" this morning in response to a recent debate in Bulgaria for the relations of both countries. "I see in...