Macedonian newspaper: To whom will Brussels remain silent about the “fascist outbursts of Bulgaria”?
Bulgaria’s average veto for the Republic of Northern Macedonia (PCM) and, which continues to block the low level of negotiations for accession to the Skopje Union, and senior Bulgarian officials have continued and intensified hate speech and nationalist statements with open territorial claims to (Northern) Macedonia, Mitko Jovanovski writes on the page of the Skopje newspaper Nova Makedonija in a material presented without editorial intervention, quoted by Focus.
The most extreme expression of anti-Macedonian views is Bulgarian MP Angel Djambazki, who said “Macedonia is Bulgaria, the second Bulgarian state in the Balkans”, in his reaction to new Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, following statements about a new approach in Macedonia. Negative attitudes towards the existence of the Macedonian state and people are constantly in Bulgarian foreign policy, but it is worrying that the recent attacks do not meet with any condemnation of the events of the so-called progressive rule of the newly elected Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, not a single low-level union of which Bulgaria is a member.
Something, all this happened at the beginning of the new Bulgarian government and at that time, when the Bulgarian President Rumenev as a “broken glass” Rad distorts the theses and the alleged existence of the language of hatred on the Macedonian side!
There was no sharp reaction and the creation by the Macedonian authorities and officials of the last nationalist outburst of the Bulgarian MEP. But contradictory, anti-European and even fascist those of Bulgarian politicians have abounded in the past. Earlier, Karakachanov threatened to send a military regiment to Macedonia in order to have claims from Bulgarian politics that Ohrid is a Bulgarian city, etc. There is no end to the Bulgarian nebulae, fabrications, extortions and threats against Macedonia, the only question is why Europe still tolerates this. Contrary to the inertia of the union, the just international community is getting closer to Bulgaria, for example from articles in the influential German Frankfurter Allmein Zeitung, in which Bulgaria was sharply criticized for its anti-European and anti-civilization policies towards (Northern) Macedonia.
Zoran Ivanov, a journalist and political analyst, believes the latest announcements from Bulgaria will not explain relations between the two countries in the next six-month negotiation period, in which, of course, the PCM is in an unfavorable, non-integrated situation.
“He, Djambazki, is not worth mentioning, who can you comment on? He is also marginal in a low parliament. Karakachanov’s Harlequin. In these current circumstances, two points weigh: the statement of Bulgarian President Radev in Brussels, according to which European colleagues have finally understood the issue of the dispute with Macedonia, and the second, Prime Minister Petkov’s six-month plan to resolve the dispute. Neither of these statements will alleviate relations between the two countries, in which, of course, our site is in an unfavorable non-integration situation. On the contrary. First, Radev bluffed that he was “understood” after imposing the topic of history on Europe. This is a very slippery slope for the xenophobic Bulgarian policy of a decade and even for the Bulgarian society, where human rights are the lowest possible European level and this is well known to Europeans and wherever it will become their open internal problem, “Ivanov said. , which is well known for the political situation in Bulgaria.
Provoke the non-existence of the Macedonian people comes from almost all political parties in Bulgaria. Among them was the VMRO-BND party of Deputy Prime Minister and former Defense Minister Krassimir Karakachanov, who released a scandalous election video evaluating paintings from Skopje and Ohrid, which he called a Bulgarian city. One video even emphasizes that Macedonia is Bulgarian. Krassimir Karakachanov is a former Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Boyko Borissov, during whose term the Neighborhood Agreement was signed in 2017. However, this does not prevent the Bulgarian side from reading this unilateral and nationalist agreement. and the fact that neither side should take hostile support and action against the other party, and that the contracting parties do not and will not make territorial claims against each other. But Bulgaria has roughly coordinated the agreement in the last period and from the position of power as a member of the Union imperialist, hegemonic, with the detection of threats and territorial claims to Macedonia.
However, this is not a reaction created by the new Bulgarian government, as well as by the EU, from whose parts of the participation and gives statements to a Bulgarian MEP who shows territorial claims to the neighboring European country!
According to Zoran Ivanov, this behavior of Bulgaria and the Union is related to “Prime Minister Petkov’s plan with proposals for new thematic interstate commissions and an alarming six-month deadline, which he imposes, which smells like a classic production.”
“First, there is already a commission. Secondly, the new commissions have an uncertain epilogue and even more uncertain deadlines for some agreements. And third, if we speculate a little, the six-month French presidency of the EU will begin on 1 January. According to Petkov, the time of the French mandate should end and until then nothing will be decided between Bulgaria and S. Macedonia. Simply put, let them deceive us again and let France take extra care of us. The suspicions are not from now, but from a long time ago that Bulgaria is not alone with us in this game of the EU and that it has heartfelt support not from some secret, but from all the more visible underground European diplomacy. Especially from some of the traditional powerful wolves in the Balkans that are still shaking the Union. Therefore, if the historical time of the French presidency of our country does not start negotiations with the union in the most practical way and in all established procedures, the wolf in France will fully show its current but also the character of Macedonia and the Macedonians. And for the others, it was obvious that in the EU it was just a publication, “Ivanov said.
Unlike the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which you avoid or react to with a delay in hate speech and threats from Bulgarian politics, official Sofia always speaks out, even for the most banal things or statements of Skopje politicians, and then used in front of European leaders. , as an “argument” for alleged “systematic violation of the rights of citizens of Bulgarian origin living in Macedonia.”
In this regard, not only a democratic Europe, but also Macedonian diplomacy and political leaders must wake up and speak clearly and loudly and judge all these brutal outbursts of Bulgarian politics, which are not only illegal but also anti-European and anti-civilization.