Tag: европратеник

The MEP from the Bulgarian ruling party GERB Andrej Kovachev attacked verbally the Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski due to his statement that "taking Bulgarian passports because of personal interest is in the same historical context during which Goce Delchev in 1900 couldn't state that he is something else but Bulgarian." Kovachev said that the president's statement is insulting including...

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...

The MEP Eduard Kukan, a rapporteur for Macedonia in the European Parliament, in an interview for the European Western Balkans said that in the upcoming months he expects a significant reversal in the political situation in Macedonia and other Balkan countries where there is a trend of blockades and boycotts of key institutions. "We are facing serious political crises in...