Sat, Feb 11 2012
Macedonian president Gjorge Ivanov.
Bulgaria and Macedonia share a similar vision of a future in which all countries in South Eastern Europe are integrated into European and Euro-Atlantic structures, Bulgarian President Purvanov and his Macedonian counterpart Ivanov agree.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov wished Serbian president Boris Tadic well with his country’s EU membership application, and, as with Tadic, congratulated Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski on his country’s Schengen visa-free status.
In the first minutes of December 19 2009, 50 citizens of Serbia will travel to Brussels, as the exemption from Schengen visa requirements for Serbians and citizens of Macedonia and Montenegro takes effect.
Brief meeting between Macedonian president Gjorge Ivanov and Greek prime minister George Papandreou revives hopes for dialogue, according to Skopje media, while an EU official hopes the Macedonia name dispute will be solved in early 2010.
From December 19 2009, the same day that citizens of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro will be exempted from Schengen visa requirements, Bulgaria will ease its visa system for the three countries.
From December 19 2009, citizens of Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro will be able to travel visa-free to the Schengen zone, a move seen as a step on the three countries’ way to European integration.
Carl Bildt, foreign minister of Sweden – currently holding the EU presidency – updates European Parliament on accession prospects of Western Balkans, Turkey and Iceland.
EU chiefs to brief European Parliament on September 16 2009 on plans to exempt Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia from Schengen visa requirements; final decision expected in November.
Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn says that he has met five out of the six goals he set for himself during his five-year term.
Denial of service attack the latest by hacking collective as Eastern Europe governments back away from ACTA under public pressure.
Situation in northern Kosovo and EU-facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Priština discussed at the United Nations.
New prime minister-designate faces task of rehabilitating image of ruling party with cabinet of second-stringers.
Greece needs the aid package from the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund in order to avoid defaulting on $19 billion in bond payments due in March.
Talks broke up early February 9 2012 with only one outstanding issue remaining.
To Makedonia and Sasha; First to Mak.always greece,My dear fellow,you dont even know who you are.Is this because you might be an Albanian or Turk?Come on, be on the level with me.Vergina is Macedonian,the artifacts are found in macedonian land.Furthere,there were no Greeks living in Macedonia before 1913.If these discoveries were Greek,my question to you is this;Why Greece has never discovered any Macedonian artifacts in Greece proper?What I mean below the mount Olympos?You dont get it do you! Today in the Republic of Macedonia have been discovered ancient artifacts same as in the Aegean Macedonia.On the matter of Slavic,if you [...]
Read the full comment havent understood so far, you will never will,so it is no use to explained to you again. Sasha,the first post second World War President of Bulgaria was Georgi Dimitrov,a Macedonian.He proposed to Tito to joing Bulgaria and Jugoslavija as one country,Tito rejected the proposal because Dimitrov wanted to be the President,and that scared Tito of loosing it all.As to Bulgarian or Macedonian,we have one common thing,and that is we speak the Slavic language.But as Makedonia always greece says,we are "slavs"it is missleading notion.This is in line with the Greek xenophobia to destroy the Macedonian language,identity and our culture.Since 1913 they have not succeeded,you too Sasha will not succeed with your Bulgarian theory.For 500 years we were under Ottomans,we never forget our identity,language and culture.Now is the 21st century,we are and will be here to stay as Macedonians,different than the Greeks and Bulgarians.Have a nice day.
too peter!we the greece we never...never says,that you are greece!!you are slavs for sure!like russia,bulgarian,serbian,like all slavs.if you feal bulgarian,or serbian this is not or problem!!!my friend you are not makedonian!!!visit vergina 50k.m from thesaloniki (sister name of alexadros)and not soloun ass you say!!!!!!on vergina you see!!!!!!
Peter you will always be a Macedonian of Slavic origin whether you believe it or not and that is how history has created you. As your antiquisationist policies in our land are only working on ca. 59% of our people there is another 41% who do adhere to their Bulgarain roots. Obviously your antiquisationism means you have a Greek background if you believe in Al. Veliki, Filip, etc., but for our Slavic brothers we believe in the real forefathers of all non-ancient Macedonians and that is Delchev, Karev, Gruev, Sarafov, Hadjinikolov, etc. Again as we all live in Macedonia unlike [...]
Read the full comment you my diaspora friend you have always followed a jingoistic narrative of romantic speculations made only in the diaspora as a tool to upgrade our country's prestige in the region. But as a Macedonian from Prilep I can certainly tell you that your antiquisationist policies are starting to flounder among many of the youth here. You can dream of your Al. Vekliki but one thing is for certain we as Macedonians will never lose our identity whether your nationlistic side believe so, as for our group of young positivists who regard our Macedonian as our God given right regardless who attacks us from within like yourself or from without like the Greeks. Remember one thing Peter progress is made by participation burying your head in nationalistic jargon does not induce anything more than butting heads with like minded nationalists from Greece. We have met 100s of Greek students and Youth who like our Macedonian Youth want compromise without losing our identity. What is certain is many of the Greek Youth respect our Macedonian identity (maybe unbelievable to people like you but true) and like us agree that placing a Northern prefix to our name would never compromise our Macedonian identity. With socialists in power in Greece a prospect for change is possible and that means our people can grasp a real future especially for our Youth who at present live in utter stagnation.
Macedonia 4 the Macedonian Youth forever our future.
Sasha,stop your lies and write something of interest about Bulgaria.I asked you once before,I will ask you once more the same question.The Greeks claim we the Macedoniana are Greek,you claim we the Macedonians are Bulgarians.Why is that?We cannot be both or either because we are Macedonians setled in this region long before the Greeks and Bulgarians.Your claim makes no sense either way.We dont give-up our identity like you do pretending you are Macedonian.Macedonians dont sing your Tatar songs,think about it!
I wonder if our president will need an interpreter in Bulgaria. His surname Ivanov is a common Bulgarian name and he probably has many kin there for example Lyubomir Ivanov. In any case the visa exemption will slow if not stop the 1000s of our Macedonians who go and get Bulgarian citizenship every year.
If the name issue remains a continuing obstacle for our people in Macedonia, then a prediction might turn out correct by B. Dimitrov in Bulgaria.
According to Dimitrov, in such a political situation every Macedonian looks for a individual solution to the [...]
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“I judge this by the applications for Macedonian citizenship. Every week we approve around 200, 300 applications… There was a week with 532 Macedonians. They become Bulgarians. They say they feel Bulgarian and get Bulgarian citizenship”, Dimitrov said.
I wonder if this will be on our presidents agenda or will he speak of the beaultiful scenary he's visiting. If we would calculate how many of our people feel Bulgarian you'll probably find that may of our Macedonians are proud of their Slavic origins. On the other hand, we can't under-estimate how many of our people have been brainwashed by the governments antiquisationist programmes on our public media. Hopefully President Ivanov will have the courage to speak to his counterpart about our current dilemma.
Macedonia 4 the Macedonian Youth