According to Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov, it will be better for both his country and Greece if Macedonia joins the EU and NATO sooner. “There’s no better place than the European Union. In Greece, too, when the crisis appeared, who actually helped it? Who stood next to it? The European Union. If, God forbid, a problem appears, who will help ...

Macedonia and Bulgaria will hold a joint governmental session at the start of December. The session will match the putting into use of part of the Struma motorway between Kresna and Sandanski, Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov said following Thursday’s meeting with his counterpart, Zoran Zaev, in Sofia. Commenting on the Nikola Gruevski case, Borissov reiterated that the former PM had ...

In parts of history textbooks in Bulgaria, the language of Macedonia and the language of Cyril and Methodius are treated as non-liberated Bulgarian territory and Old Bulgarian, respectively. Those are the main remarks of Macedonian historians arising from the meetings held so far of the Macedonia-Bulgaria Interdisciplinary Commission on Historical and Educational Issues. On the other hand, the Bulgarian team ...

Within the frameworks of his visit to Skopje, Wolfgang Sobotka, President of the Austrian National Council, delivered an address in Parliament. As he said, the constitutional changes needed for the name change represent a moment of parliamentarism. “Brave steps are needed,” Sobotka pointed out. According to him, though he understands that the issue isn’t simple for opposition MPs and that ...