Historical and cultural disputes between North Macedonia and Bulgaria hinder EU accession. The stalemate revolves around ...

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." ...

The late linguist Max Weinreich put it best. “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy,” he said almost a century ago. The distinction, in other words, has less to do with linguistics and more ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced last night that the Bulgarian delegation presented a statement at the meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives in Brussels. The position states ...

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 ...

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, ...