Macedonia and Bulgaria's long-simmering dispute over the Macedonian language is threatening to boil over again, just as Skopje nears a resolution to its dispute with Greece over the name "Macedonia." ...

2001-08-02 04:00:00 PDT Skopje, Macedonia-- Political leaders of the main ethnic Macedonian and ethnic Albanian political parties reached a tentative agreement yesterday on whether Albanian is an ...

The Macedonian Government is trying to persuade local NGOs not to go to the constitutional court and ask for the scrapping of a new amendment that pushes children from minority communities to start ...

Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry is trying to calm a potential dispute with Bulgaria, after the Bulgarian Defence Minister accused the Skopje government of 'playing tricks with history'. Bulgarian Defense ...

On International Mother Language Day, observed each year on the 21 of February promoting awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity, former human rights activist George Vlahov takes us back to the ...

A surprise initiative by France's waning EU presidency to end a two-year dispute over shared Balkan culture in time for this week's European summit hung in the balance ahead of a June 22 deadline, ...

The European Parliament has adopted the report on North Macedonia, authored by Austrian MEP Thomas Waitz, without any mention of the “Macedonian language and identity.” Amendments proposed by the ...

Bulgaria is in a deep political crisis. Mass protests against crime, corruption, oligarchs and the government have been going on since July 2020. In addition to the political dimension, the current ...