Sat, Feb 11 2012
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The court case was not transparent, says the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry after the court barred a Bulgarian embassy official from attending
"Seventy per cent of ethnic Bulgarians abroad want to come to Bulgaria," Bulgarian Minister without Portfolio Dimitrov said.
Voislav Savic speaks out in his first ever interview with Bulgarian media on the Spaska Mitrova case, which caused diplomatic row between Bulgaria and Macedonia
I don't understand a system which sends a mother of a newborn to prison, Boiko Borissov says, ahead of his meeting with Spaska Mitrova.
While two Bulgarian presidents hold telephone calls with the Macedonian president over the Mitrova case, the owner of Focus news agency says Bulgarians should "defend the rights of Bulgarians in Macedonia in view of what we owe to generations of Bulgarians before us."
And while he is there, he will teach Macedonian inmates about their Bulgarian roots.
The proactive and public policy of Boiko Borissov’s Government in defending the rights of Bulgarians abroad has been warmly welcomed by a constituency who for years has been complaining about the disregard of its embassy.
In what might be seen as an outline of Bulgaria's policy towards Macedonia, Bulgarian Minister without portfolio, responsible for Bulgarians abroad, said Mitrova case not alone, cause was Macedonian identity crisis.
The case of a 23 year old woman, sentenced to three months in jail, is threatening to become a roadblock to Macedonian EU accession, at least if the new Bulgarian Government gets its way.
Foreign ministries criticise website that calls on visitors to lodge complaints against immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe.
‘I am delighted we managed to identify and attract some of the brightest and best people from Bulgaria and Romania to come and work at the European Commission,’ EC Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič said.
The current ‘negative Arctic Oscillation’ – a weather phenomenon which leads to cold conditions in Europe and relatively warmer conditions in the Arctic – should shift into a more neutral pattern within the next two to three weeks.
The extreme cold has been blamed for almost 400 deaths across Europe. In Ukraine, where temperatures have fallen below minus 30 degrees Celsius, the cold is blamed for at least 122 deaths. Many of the victims were homeless.
At the end of Q3 2011, the highest government debt to GDP ratio was in Greece, at 159.1 per cent.
too all fyromanian,what means macedonia you now;;;;;;;;you are slavs and you now this better then me.the slavs come on this area latter,the macedonian it wass olrady here.giro gligorof says on greece press, 30 days ago,we are not macedonian we dont have nothing close with alexandros,we are slavs.macedonian speak greec, have greec name,greec culture is so simple.propagant is not history.you have bulgarin-serbian dialect,macedonian speak greec,be sirius,stop lies stop steal.only in your dream you be macedonia.
This poor woman went through hell and on top of it all was separated from her small child. We Macedonian women are a strong breed but this attitude lately from our government to implement such treatment because of her Bulgarian passport is unforgivable. Here in Gevgelija 67% of our towns women all have Bulgarian passports but that doesn't mean we have disowned our Macedonian idenity. These idiots who convicted her need jailing themselves. As a mother of 4 children if any man would even attempt to separate us he would leave his kast breath in the street. My family despise [...]
Read the full comment this treament of women in Macedonia and especially the male chauvinism that still exists here is disastrous. If other countries would see how our men treat women they would think we are the most primitive people in Europe. Maybe our men are. Time has come to respect your women and this rubbish about pasports is ridiculous. Most people in Gevgelija are anyway Bulgarian origins so what is the problem. A good Macedonian knows where they come from and its not from the north, south, or west. Women should run this country not the imbeciles like Gruevski and his bunch of monkeys (esp. his FM Antonio Mil.) who are to busy building statues of themselves. Yes thats right they think that the statues represent themselves these big ego.s they have. I'm sure Gruevski is a 2 min. noodle like most boxers.
Come on guys, I know our country made a mistake but all this veto stuff isn't worth it. Many of us here were totally against what our government done but we were helpless to do anything. Macedonia is home to many peoples but it is our Bulgarian heritage that many of us respect. Yes we are Macedonians but our Bulgarian background can never be questioned. A long time ago a person on this site calling himself Robert the Hero questioned my logic as he was also a Macedonian living in America. When I told him that you can compare Macedonia [...]
Read the full comment to America where he lives that just as he is an American of Macedonian background so are many of the Narod here Macedonians of a Bulgarian background. He abused me and the site for weeks claiming that we Macedonians come from the seeds of Aleksander Veliki. Thankfully dozens of Macedonians (especially the youth) voiced their outrage at this hypocrite from the diaspora trying to rewrite our glorious history written by the likes of Gruev, Delchev, Miladinovs. There are those among us who believe in the propaganda emanating from the diaspora but the majority of the young have in the last two years in particular questioned our governments view of our history. It seems that the confusion began when our government decided to include ancient narratives which unbeknown to them were opposite to the writings of our famous early 20th century leaders mentioned earlier. They overlooked one important fact. Not one of our leaders Delchev, Gruev, etc., ever claimed any connection to Aleksander Veliki but rather our proud Bulgarian heritage which funny enough our government refuses. When our former leader L. Georgievski openly declared whilst in power that we cannot divorce ourselves from our Bulgarian roots, he caused a stir but not a storm. Many Macedonians understood what he said and accept it. Only the hardline conservatives condemned it and only for a few weeks. Today our former leader has moved to Bulgaria where he is active with our Macedonian Brethren there looking into our Bulgarian roots. Even our chief archaeologist Pasko Kuzman admits our Bulgarian background cannot be so easily erased as Gruevski's government with the help of the diaspora are attempting to do. To our proud Bulgarian Leaders Gotse Delchev and co. who said we are all Macedonians , Greeks Bulgarians, Turks, Vlachs, etc., we honour you. Here in Prilep many of our people are all open about their Bulgarian ancestry, so as you can see we feel for the poor woman. As Macedonians we are proud of our Bulgarian roots.
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Should not have threatened should have done years ago.
Bulgaria still has chances to veto FYROM after all it will take that horrible little third world country FYROM 15-20 years to join the EU. I say Bulgaria vetoes now
Come on Bulgaria you know what to do when that little extremely poor country FYROM tries to join the EU, a VETO!