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A Macedonian fighter jet attacks a target on US soil. The US President's immediate reaction is: "Just wait until we find you on the map and you will see!"
The joke could easily apply to any other tiny country in the World. But if one indeed tries to pinpoint Macedonia's whereabouts, one would find out that the answer is ambigious.
There is a region on the Balkan peninsula called Macedonia, which includes areas from three neighboring states – and there is the eponymous country of Macedonia. This ambiguity, as we all know, has put Macedonia and Greece at loggerheads for many years now.
This week, Greek media did not fail to tackle the notorious "name dispute" as it criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel because she used the term "Macedonia" without the "Former Yugoslav Republic" part.
Bashing the leader of a sovereign nation over not saying Macedonia as you want it to be said is an overreaction. But it made me think whether the third country that has parts of the Macedonia region within its borders – Bulgaria – is actually underreacting.
The notion of Macedonia having territorial claims for parts of Bulgaria may seem far-fetched right now. But does that mean Bulgaria should stay so utterly quiet on the whole subject?
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If we look at history, there are not many cases in which relations between Bulgaria and Russia at the state level were as bad as they are at the moment.
The term “Iron Curtain” was not coined by Winston Churchill, but it was he who turned it into one of the symbols of the latter part of the twentieth century by using it in his famous Fulton speech of 1946.
Hardly anything could be said in defense of the new government's ideological profile, which is quite blurry; at the same time much can be disputed about its future "pro-European" stance.
Look who is lurking again behind the corner – the tandem of Advent International and Deutsche Bank, respectively the buyer of the Bulgarian Telecom Company in 2004 and the advisor of the Bulgarian government in the sweetest deal of the past decade, seem t
We have seen many times this circus which is being played out during the entire week and it only shows one thing - there is no need of a caretaker government in Bulgaria.
You have certainly noticed how many times President Rosen Plevneliev used the phrase “a broad-minded person” referring to almost every member of his caretaker government.
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