What lies in the way of North Macedonia’s EU membership?
2 years, 11 months ago

What lies in the way of North Macedonia’s EU membership?

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Bulgaria and Greece have blocked the way before, with frustration centred on historic and cultural disagreements. “All these years the focus was on the Greek issues,” said Cvetkovska, referring to separate historic disagreements with North Macedonia’s neighbour to the south. “Macedonian politics were relying on the international community to fix the Bulgarian problem.” Tangled history Under premier Nikola Gruevski, the grandson of Greek communist exiles, North Macedonia claimed descent from ancient Macedonian kings Philip II and Alexander the Great, whose palaces are in the northern Greek region of Macedonia. North Macedonia relinquished claims to “ancient Hellenic civilisation, history, culture and heritage” in article 7. “The Slav Macedonians cannot accept that their beginnings as a nation go back only as far back as the 1940s.” The two countries’ common history stretches at least to the early Middle Ages.

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