Historical, cultural and linguistic disputes keep the EU door closed to North Macedonia, while the key is held by "brotherly" Bulgaria, which has promised it will not back down until its neighbouring ...

The accusations from the Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Hristijan Mickoski, against Bulgaria have grown increasingly contradictory and are approaching the absurd. Mickoski criticized Bulgaria for ...

Ethnic Albanian pupils in Macedonia have started the second semester of the 2009/10 school year with a boycott: They are refusing to take part in Macedonian language classes, which they say have been ...

For the first time ever in Greece, an official Macedonian language centre will deliver online courses in Macedonian in Greece and advocate for the linguistic rights of the country's Macedonian ...

After two days of talks, teams from North Macedonia and Bulgaria were unable to clear up their disputes over history, language and identity – with potentially worrying consequences for North Macedonia ...

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, ...

(GHM/IFEX) – GHM condemns the censorship by the Greek daily newspaper “Makedonia” of an article on the banned Macedonian language in Greece that was to be published on 14 August 2005, in the regular ...

Macedonia has recognized a nine-year-old private university that teaches in the Albanian language, in a step intended to remove a major source of conflict between the country’s two main ethnic groups.

SKOPJE, Macedonia, July 20 -- As another Balkan country stumbles toward full-scale civil war, peace pivots on what seems to many outsiders a mere symbol -- language reform. Western-mediated talks ...