Géopolitiques de la Bulgarie

07 novembre 2007

Orpheus with new motherland…

7 November 2007 | 08:38 | FOCUS News Agency

Orpheus, who is one of the symbols of ancient Thrace was a Macedonian, say Macedonian media. The news caused reactions among the Bulgarian research circles.
The written sources relate Orpheus with Thrace, because Orpheus is not a historical personality, but a metaphor of the Thracian kings – high priests, Prof. Valeria Foll from the Thracology Institute to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences told FOCUS News Agency in an interview. She was flat that the Macedonians have no reason to say Orpheus was a Macedonian.
The Eastern Rhodope were the centre of the cult to Orpheus – most probably this is the place where Orpheus himself came from or the myths about him originated from, archaeologist Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov announced.
Orpheus is a Thracian, which automatically refers him to us, Bulgarians, sculptor Georgi Chapkanov announced. He has made a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in Smolyan. The first human was a Macedonian, but his father and mother were Bulgarians, unfortunately, Prof. Bozhidar Dimitrov, director of the National Museum of History announced.

25 octobre 2007

Macedonia will use Bulgarian experience for EU negotiations

Macedonia will use Bulgarian experiences on its road to EU full-fledged membership in the sphere of utilisation of Pre-Accession Funds, conducting negotiations and screening, issue of cross-border cooperation as well as communication with media at the moment of conducting negotiations. This was agreed Wednesday at today's meeting between Gergana Grncharova, Bulgarian Minister of European Affairs and Deputy PM for European Integration Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska.

- The Republic of Macedonia highly assesses the political will and wish of the Republic of Bulgaria to cooperation on issues regarding the European integration especially significant issues, which are on the agenda for 2008, Konevska - Trajkovska said underlying the previous good cooperation between the two countries.

Grncharova said that Macedonia so far has achieved large progress on the road to the EU and on this road has a partner in Bulgaria with which it shares close cultural relations, religion and history something that Sofia did not have when it conducted negotiations with the EU.

- Negotiations are not an easy task. The EU is very experience and solid player on the negotiating table and it is in your interest to continue to swiftly conduct the reforms because their postponement makes them heavier and slower and time is very important resource, Grncharova said. She said that the entire preparation for EU membership is a process, which requires political dialogue, and what helped Bulgaria on this road is the achieved political consensus between the ruling and opposition parties in the country.

According to her very important is building good coordinating mechanism and in this relation she praised Macedonian Government for formed working groups with resources prepared for negotiations for each of the chapters prior to receiving date for negotiations with the EU. Bulgarian Minister of European Affairs announced continuation of cooperation between the two countries with meetings every six months and several thematic meetings on European integration for next year.
http://www.mrt.com.mk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3900&Itemid=27

14 septembre 2007

Krasimir Karakachanov: It is a matter of time for Macedonia to stop existing within its current borders

14 September 2007 | 09:04 | FOCUS News Agency

Sofia. There is a statement in Macedonian school books that Samuil was a Macedonian King, who fought Byzantium, but raised against the Bulgarian slavery, Krasimir Karakachanov said in an interview for BTV. When asked to comment on the statement of the former Macedonian PM Ljupco Georgievski, according to whom Macedonia would be separated after the establishment of Kosovo, Karakachanov said that the Muslim population is about 40%. The Albanian nation is young and they saw that they have a clear idea, linked to whether Bulgarians would recognize the independence of Kosovo, Karakachanov said and added that it is a matter of time for Macedonia to stop existing within its current boundaries.

Bozhidar Dimitrov: Macedonians live in a fabricated world

14 September 2007 | 08:24 | FOCUS News Agency

Sofia. There is still not a single citizen on this world, who had found documents, where King Samuil is called Macedonian ruler and his people – Macedonians, the Director of the Bulgarian National Historical Museum Bozhidar Dimitrov said in an interview for BTV. There are tens and maybe thousands of documents of many origins, ioncluding Serbian, which claim that Samuil is a Bulgarian King, his country is Bulgaria and his people – Bulgarians. Macedonians live in a fabricated world, Dimitrov said.

01 septembre 2007

Macedonia’s secrets

1 September 2007 | 08:44 | FOCUS News Agency

All data about secret agents, allies, plans, current stocks and other secret data of the Macedonian Security and Counterintelligence Directorate (UBK), have been stolen from the archive, Macedonian newspaper Dnevnik writes, citing sources from Macedonian Ministry of Interior. An officer of the UBK who ran away to Bulgaria a month ago had sneaked into the archive of the counter-intelligence service. The Macedonian Ministry of Interior announced Thursday there were no signals reported about such a theft. The main suspect is with initials I.S. He worked as an analyzer in the Macedonian counterintelligence and is nephew of former Interior Minister Dosta Dimovska, incumbent director of the Macedonian cultural and information center in Sofia.
I do not have a nephew who is working in the Macedonian Interior Ministry or counterintelligence, said Dosta Dimovska.
According to journalist Alexander Damovski, director of the Macedonian Vreme newspaper, the case in point is a large scandal – one of the largest that happened in the recent period of the Macedonian intelligence. He stressed the information was reliable.

Macedonia’s secrets

1 September 2007 | 08:44 | FOCUS News Agency

All data about secret agents, allies, plans, current stocks and other secret data of the Macedonian Security and Counterintelligence Directorate (UBK), have been stolen from the archive, Macedonian newspaper Dnevnik writes, citing sources from Macedonian Ministry of Interior. An officer of the UBK who ran away to Bulgaria a month ago had sneaked into the archive of the counter-intelligence service. The Macedonian Ministry of Interior announced Thursday there were no signals reported about such a theft. The main suspect is with initials I.S. He worked as an analyzer in the Macedonian counterintelligence and is nephew of former Interior Minister Dosta Dimovska, incumbent director of the Macedonian cultural and information center in Sofia.
I do not have a nephew who is working in the Macedonian Interior Ministry or counterintelligence, said Dosta Dimovska.
According to journalist Alexander Damovski, director of the Macedonian Vreme newspaper, the case in point is a large scandal – one of the largest that happened in the recent period of the Macedonian intelligence. He stressed the information was reliable.

Interest in Bulgarian literature in Macedonia increases, says Spas Tashev

31 August 2007 | 08:41 | FOCUS News Agency

Skopje. Historical editions and publications at the Bulgarian Cultural and Information Centre in Skopje are well sold on the Macedonian market, which is understandable as this is another point of view of Macedonian history, based on what officials say, Spas Tashev, director of the Bulgarian Cultural and Information Centre in Skopje informed. He explained that since the establishment of the centre in 2005 Macedonian interest in Bulgarian literature has increased. Now the centre has 7,000 books after VMRO – Plovdiv’s Thursday donation.

30 août 2007

Bulgaria Damps Macedonia's Hopes for Visa Lift

Bulgaria made it clear it does not plan to abolish the visa regime with Macedonia, which was imposed at the beginning of the year after the country joined the European Union.

"The visa issue is much more a problem for Macedonia to decide than for Bulgaria, which is just sticking by the requirements of the European Union," Ventsislav Tsvetanov, Bulgaria's consul to Skopje, told the local Dnevnik daily.

"Should Macedonia improve the border control, changeover the personal documents and talk things through with the European Union, things may be different," he added.

According to Tsvetanov 50,000 visas for Macedonian nationals have been issued since the beginning of the year, making it from 300 to 700 visas per day.

Bulgaria has eased the visa regime for citizens from fourteen border Macedonian municipalities, who just need to prove they have been living there for six months and have been invited by a Bulgarian national to enter the country.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=84713

13 août 2007

Makfax: Ljupco Georgievski – Bulgarian Ambassador to Macedonia

10 August 2007 | 18:58 | FOCUS News Agency

Skopje/Sofia. The former Macedonian Prime Minister Ljupco Georgievski had said that in September he would be appointed Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Macedonia, the Macedonian agency Makfax reports. According to Makfax, Georgievski had said that in an announcement made to the media in Macedonia, in response to the publicity of his high activity at the local elections campaign in Bulgaria. ‘If so many comments are written about this, what should I expect them to write on September 1st, when they hear that I am appointed Ambassador of Bulgaria to Macedonia’, Georgievski had said. None of the state institutions in Sofia confirmed or denied this information, Makfax notes.

Vecer: Macedonians do not travel to Bulgaria

13 August 2007 | 08:57 | FOCUS News Agency

Skopje. The number of Macedonian citizens who traveled to Bulgaria in the first half of 2007 has decreased twice, the Macedonian Vecer newspaper writes. Before Bulgaria’s joining the EU and introducing visas, each year over 500,000 Macedonian citizens crossed the border to do business or visit the country as tourists. The negative tendency, which reflects on the number of passengers, will most probably change as of March next year, when Macedonia and Bulgaria are due to sign an annex to the visa regime agreement.