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Old June 20th, 2014 #221
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According to this, the titular nationality of FYROM has fallen below 50% of total births, giving Albanians hope of turning it into another Albanian state...

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In Macedonia [FYROM] were born 11,603 Macedonians [FYROMians], 7,488 Albanians, 1,080 Turks, 1,226 Roma ..
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Old July 7th, 2014 #222
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Macedonia: Ethnic Albanians Protest Court Ruling on Slayings

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Police in western Macedonia have used stun grenades to disperse hundreds of protesters angry over the verdict in a murder trial…

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Rise of the mesh curtain: Tensions flare at Macedonian border as soldiers start to build three-metre high fence to keep migrants out

A group of about 250 migrants attacked authorities guarding the Macedonian border on Saturday

They were enraged that soldiers were building a wire fence to stop them crossing into the country

The migrants were also angry a Moroccan 24-year-old had been electrocuted in a train accident

Macedonia has closed the border to all migrants apart from refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan

Tensions have flared at the Macedonian border after migrants became enraged by the sight of soldiers starting to construct a fence along the border with Greece.

The estimated 800 migrants stranded at the border have become increasingly angry over the last two weeks, ever since Macedonia stopped letting anyone but refugees from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan cross into the country from Greece.

But after Macedonian soldiers began driving three metre metal poles into the ground on Saturday morning, the anger erupted - stoked by an accident which left a Moroccan with severe burns.

A group of about 250 enraged migrants charged the police line, throwing stones - only to be met with tear gas and rubber bullets.

However, on Sunday the soldiers were back constructing the fence as the migrants looked on helplessly.
Read more: Tensions flare at Macedonian border as soldiers start to build three-metre high fence to keep migrants out* | Daily Mail Online


 
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(JTA) — A Jewish lawmaker from Macedonia was removed as Labor and Welfare minister amid a hostile anti-Semitic environment present since she assumed office in early January.

The ruling party, the left-leaning Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, said Rasela Mizrahi was fired for not calling the country by its new name, North Macedonia, instead using the Republic of Macedonia.

Mizrahi, a member of the center-right VMRO-DPMNE party, was voted out of office on Saturday in a 62-26 vote.
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“I am a proud Jewish woman from Macedonia,” Mizrahi said during the debate last week to remove her from office, the English-language Macdedonian news website Republika reported. The report said that Mizrahi faced “an unending torrent of anti-Semitic abuse from the left during her term in office.”

“Even before I walked into my office, as the first Jewish person in the history of Macedonia to be appointed to the government, I was the target of reckless anti-Semitic attacks. Instead of criticizing my work, I was attacked for my religion and nationality and labeled with a yellow star,” Mizrahi also said. Most of her family, prominent in Macedonia for centuries, were killed in the Holocaust.
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Here's a new article about how the influential jew politician Rasela/Rashela Mizrahi is using her position to stir up hatred between European peoples and agitate against North Macedonia's neighboring countries, mainly Greece and Bulgaria, while pretending to be an innocent victim of "antisemitic" attacks:

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BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ MAY 31, 2021 11:48 AM



(JTA) — Politics was supposed to be a very brief interlude in Rashela Mizrahi’s career as a scientist.

A 39-year-old Jewish fertility researcher from North Macedonia, she was appointed last year to serve for 100 days as the temporary minister of labor in her Balkan country, situated north of Greece. She was deemed a good nonpartisan pick to serve as a placeholder ahead of elections.

“I had zero interest in politics,” Mizrahi told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “But I thought it’d send a good message for women. Plus, like any Jewish daughter, I wanted to make my parents proud.”

But what began as a token stint resulted in multiple diplomatic spats and the country’s worst-ever wave of public antisemitic rhetoric.
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It all started in February, she said, during a routine press conference that she gave at the labor ministry in the capital Skopje weeks after she became its temporary boss.

“I talked unemployment, stimulus plans, welfare. The usual stuff,” she recalled. But in media reports, Mizrahi’s message was upstaged by the backdrop: A large wooden sign that read “the Republic of Macedonia.”

This was an issue, because the previous year Macedonia had changed its name to North Macedonia due to pressure from its richer and larger neighbor, Greece. That country has long argued that its northern neighbor’s former name implied territorial claims to Greek’s northern province, which is also called Macedonia.

The sign landed Mizrahi at the center of a polarizing debate between Macedonian hawks who see the 2020 name change as surrender to a foreign power, and doves who defended the change as a pragmatic gesture that opened the door for Macedonia to join NATO and in the future also the European Union.

Mizrahi was not a member of any political party back then and said that she had no intention of making a political point at the press conference. She didn’t even make the sign, which Mizrahi says was “just part of the furniture.”

“The sign was just there. I didn’t have it put up there,” she said.

But as a business and science-oriented straight talker with little interest in diplomatic niceties, Mizrahi did not hide her disdain for the controversial name change.

“You can thank my predecessor, who didn’t commission any new signs. Maybe she recognizes that this is the Republic of Macedonia and that we’re Macedonians,” Mizrahi said to reporters about Mila Carovska, a member of the left-leaning SDSM party that led the name change.

Greece’s ambassador protested the remark and then Nikola Dimitrov, North Macedonia’s foreign at the time, warned that Mizrahi was putting “Euro-Atlantic aspirations in danger.” She was fired just five weeks into her three-month stint.
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In addition to vocally opposing concessions to Greece, Mizrahi is a prominent critic of what she considers the left-wing government’s appeasement of neighboring Bulgaria — another powerful neighbor whose actions have had a devastating effect on Mizrahi’s own family.

On Dec. 30, Mizrahi delivered a speech in parliament about Bulgaria’s role in the Holocaust, when Bulgarian forces occupied what is today North Macedonia and helped round up 98% of the area’s 7,000-plus Jews and deport them to be murdered by German troops.


Standing against the giant Christmas tree that decorates parliament in Skopje during the holiday season, Mizrahi held up pictures of her dead relatives and asked Prime Minister Zoran Zaev: “Who killed them?”
https://www.jta.org/2021/05/31/globa...o-nationalists

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Old January 24th, 2022 #227
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North Macedonia and Bulgaria agree to work on issues blocking EU talks


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SKOPJE, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The new premiers of Bulgaria and North Macedonia agreed on Tuesday to try to overcome problems that prompted Sofia to block the start of accession talks between the European Union and Skopje.

Dimitar Kovacevski, who was sworn in as North Macedonia's prime minister on Monday, said he and Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov had agreed at talks in Skopje to try to improve relations between their countries.

Petkov, who took office last month, said he was "a big optimist" about the chances of them achieving results.

Bulgaria refused in 2020 to approve the EU’s membership negotiation framework for North Macedonia because of disputes over history and language, but faces pressure from its Western allies in the EU to be more flexible.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ks-2022-01-18/
 
Old May 14th, 2022 #228
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North Macedonia Hosts Big NATO Exercise


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Held in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO's newest member on Thursday hosted a big NATO military drill, called Swift Response, with the presence of armed forces from several allied countries.

Some 4,600 soldiers from eight NATO allies, plus North Macedonia, participated at today’s military drill in North Macedonia dubbed Swift Response 22.

The drill was held at the country’s biggest military training range, Krivolak, with the participation of soldiers from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Montenegro, Albania, Greece as well as the host, North Macedonia.



British soldiers taking part in the NATO exercise ‘Swift Response 22’, at the Krivolak Army Training Range in North Macedonia. Photo by EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI

Some 10,000 soldiers from 19 countries have been taking part in NATO’s“ Swift Response” exercises in North Macedonia, held as Russia’s war in Ukraine continues.

The combined exercise in North Macedonia features parachute jumps by airborne units, helicopter landings as well as close air support of ground units.
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US Army helicopters UH-60 Blackhawk fly by during the NATO exercise ‘Swift Response 22’ at the Krivolak Army Training Range. Photo by EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI
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Old May 23rd, 2022 #229
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Fugitive ex-PM jailed for nine years


Former North Macedonian leader Nikola Gruevski sentenced for demolishing a rival's building

The runaway former North Macedonian prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, was sentenced on Friday to nine years in prison for ordering the demolition of a building owned by a political adversary.

Skopje’s Criminal Court handed down the sentence after finding that Gruevski had abused his power and ordered the 2011 demolition as an “act of political revenge” against Fijat Canoski, a former ally who had left the ruling coalition to lead a fledgling opposition party. Canoski was developing a large residential complex, called the Cosmos Building, when the project was razed, ostensibly because of permit violations.
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Old June 25th, 2022 #230
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Balkan membership hopefuls leave EU summit empty handed


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BRUSSELS, June 23 (Reuters) - A summit of European Union and Balkan leaders failed on Thursday to break a deadlock over a stalled EU membership bid by North Macedonia and Albania, even as Ukraine was set to become an official candidate for membership.
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Old July 9th, 2022 #231
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North Macedonia: More violence reported at protests


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July 6, 2022



SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Thousands marched through the capital for a fifth consecutive night Wednesday protesting a proposal aiming to break a deadlock in North Macedonia’s efforts to join the European Union.

Limited violence broke out when a group of people threw stones, chairs and bottles at the protesters, while a 40-year-old man was detained after firing a gun in the air as protesters marched to the foreign ministry, police said. No injuries were reported. Police said they found bullet casings at the scene.

Opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski and the governing social democrats hastily convened news conferences and accused each other of creating such incidents for political gain. Mickoski, who participated in the march, posted a photo on his Facebook account showing a man pointing a gun and claimed the gunman had intended to kill him.
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Bulgaria, which as an EU member has veto powers over new members, wants North Macedonia to formally recognize its language has Bulgarian roots, to recognize a Bulgarian minority in the country and to quash “hate speech” against Bulgaria. Many in North Macedonia say acquiescing would undermine their national identity.
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North Macedonia has been an EU candidate for 17 years. The country emerged from the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and sought to forge a strong national identity. But in a region where borders and ethnicities have shifted and overlapped over centuries, it was beset by problems from the start.

The country’s chosen name, Macedonia, sparked outrage in neighboring Greece, which said the term harbored expansionist aims against its own province of the same name and was an attempt to usurp Greek history and culture. Athens held up Skopje’s EU and NATO membership bids for years, until a 2019 deal was reached that included the smaller country changing its name to North Macedonia.

But the following year, neighboring Bulgaria blocked the renamed nation’s attempts to join the EU, accusing Skopje of disrespecting shared cultural and historic ties. Among Bulgaria’s key demands were acknowledgment that the language of North Macedonia derived from Bulgarian, and the recognition of a Bulgarian minority.
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The government has stressed the proposal does not endanger national interests or identity. But the center-right main opposition party, the VMRO-DPMNE, as well as others, disagree, saying the deal favors Bulgarian demands that question North Macedonia’s history, language, identity, culture and heritage.

Biljana Vankovska, a law professor at the Saint Cyril and Methodius University’s Institute for Security, Defense and Peace, slammed the French proposal as bowing to “the nationalistic and chauvinistic demands of Bulgaria.”

“It is unbelievable that a small nation was asked to give up its language, history and constitution-making powers to external powers in order to start the EU accession process,” she said.
https://apnews.com/article/france-ra...48ae8e9473380f
 
Old July 11th, 2022 #232
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In North Macedonia’s Protest Wave, Right and Left Mingle


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July 8, 202214:31

The rallies against acceptance of the French proposal for lifting Bulgaria’s blockade on North Macedonia’s EU talks draw on discontent felt across the political spectrum.

Resentment of Bulgaria’s blockade on the start of their country’s EU membership talks, resentment of the EU for allowing it to happen, and resentment of the governing Social Democrats who they feel have betrayed the country.

These are the common sentiments shared by most of the protesters who have hit the streets of North Macedonia's capital Skopje for the last six days under the slogan, “Ultimatum, No Thanks!” – calling for rejection of the French EU presidency’s proposal for a deal with Bulgaria.

The protests were initially called and led by the main opposition right-wing VMRO DPMNE party. But there is also a significant presence of left-wingers from the pro-Russian Levica [left] party, who say patriotism and leftist ideals are complementary.
https://balkaninsight.com/2022/07/08...d-left-mingle/
 
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North Macedonia votes to end dispute with Bulgaria, clears way for EU talks


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SKOPJE, July 16 (Reuters) - Lawmakers in North Macedonia on Saturday passed a French-brokered deal aimed at settling a dispute with Bulgaria and clearing the way to long-due European Union membership talks.

With 68 votes, the 120-seat parliament voted in favour of the agreement. Opposition lawmakers did not participate in the vote and left the room.

“Today we are opening a new perspective for our country…from today we are moving with accelerated steps to join the EU family,” Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski said in a press conference after his cabinet approved parliament’s conclusions.Kovacevski said the first meeting between his government and the EU would be held on Tuesday.
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Albania, North Macedonia, Brace for First EU Accession Talks


Fjori Sinoruka Tirana BIRN July 18, 2022 13:52

EU officials have welcomed the 'historic' vote in North Macedonia's parliament at the weekend, which has opened the way to the long-delayed start to accession talks for both North Macedonia and Albania.



North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski (L) and Albanian PM Edi Rama (R) at the Open Balkan Summit in Ohrid, North Macedonia, 8 June 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI

The European Union High Representative Joseph Borrell announced that accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia will start on Tuesday, after Saturday’s vote in North Macedonia’s parliament on a French proposal removed the final obstacle posed by Bulgaria to the start of the process.

“This is a historic moment. They have spent so many years waiting with the status of candidate, with nothing happening; the final vote in North Macedonia parliament has opened a door and an intergovernmental conference will launch the process of negotiations, a long-awaited process,” Borrell told media on Monday.

“This is a good news. We didn’t have lot of good news, this is a good one [and] I hope it is going to increase our engagement with the Balkans,” Borrell added.

On Saturday, 68 members of North Macedonia’s 120-seat parliament voted in favour of a proposal made by French President Emanuel Macron to overcome deep disagreements between Skopje and Sofia.
https://balkaninsight.com/2022/07/18...cession-talks/
 
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North Macedonia: Police find 44 migrants crammed into truck




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Police in North Macedonia have detained 44 Syrian migrants, including 14 minors, found carefully hidden in a truck near the southern border with Greece, authorities said Tuesday.

The truck driver was arrested on suspicion of belonging to a migrant-smuggling ring.

A police statement said the migrants were found late Monday during a routine check on a road near the town of Valandovo. They were inside a specially constructed hiding place within the large vehicle.
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North Macedonia: Hani, a superhero for migrants


By DW Published on : 2023/01/06

Hani helps hundreds of migrants from the Middle East who cross the border from Greece into North Macedonia on their way to Serbia. The Iranian, a former migrant himself, is volunteering with the Red Cross of North Macedonia. He assists migrants every day with food, water and medical supplies, because he knows what it's like to have no one by your side on such a dangerous journey.
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North Macedonia Opposition Delays Govt Reshuffle in Parliament


Sinisa Jakov Marusic Skopje BIRN February 23, 2023 13:32

A ministerial reshuffle aimed at boosting the majority in parliament around a common EU agenda has become stuck for a second week in the chamber, where the opposition is stalling the debate.

What was intended to be a quick government reshuffle to boost the thin Social Democrat-led majority in parliament, following the entry of the Alliance for Albanians party into the government, has turned into a marathon in parliament.

For a second week in a row, the normal work of six ministries in the government led by Dimitar Kovacevski, has been hampered, as the debate in parliament where the resignations of old ministers and deputy ministers, as well as the appointment of new ones is discussed, one at a time.

The lengthy process began on February 13 after parliament noted the resignations of the Minister of Justice, Nikola Tupanceski, and the Minister of the Environment, Nasser Nuredini, as well as of the Deputy Ministers of Health, Vladimir Rendevski and of Justice, Agim Nuhiu.

Opposition VMRO DPMNE MPs used the opportunity to stall the debate, insisting that the reshuffle was being done for personal and corrupt interests and not to advance the country’s EU agenda. It argues that the country does not need a reshuffle of the existing cabinet, which in its views, has failed on many fronts, but snap polls.
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/02/23...in-parliament/
 
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North Macedonia Green-lights Helicopter Donation to Ukraine


Sinisa Jakov Marusic Skopje BIRN March 30, 202312:45

North Macedonia’s government has agreed a donation of armed helicopters to Ukraine, likely consisting of its entire fleet of Soviet-made Mi-24 attack helicopters.



North Macedonia’s Mi-24 helicopter at the ‘Decisive Strike’ military exercise in Krivolak, June 8, 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI

North Macedonia’s government “has decided to donate helicopters to Ukraine” and has accepted a draft text intended for this purpose, the government in Skopje said in a press release.

The government did not specify how many gunships will be donated, but earlier this week, Defence Minister Slavjanka Petrovska said it might hand over its entire fleet of 12 helicopters.

Petrovska at the weekend recalled that these heavily armed helicopters, bought in 2001 from Ukraine itself, are no longer part of the country’s defence plans and that their so-called “resource” will expire soon, so they will no longer be airworthy.

It is believed that Ukraine will be able to more easily use the gunships, as it already has a fleet of identical frames.

Unofficially, only four of North Macedonia’s Mi-24s have been modernised and are still airworthy. The rest could be potentially restored by Ukraine or used for spare parts.

The Kremlin called the decision a mistake. “We would consider such decision [to donate the helicopters] a big mistake by the Macedonian government,” the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday.
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As for North Macedonia, which joined NATO in 2020, Petrovska said the country seeks to purchase eight Western-made multipurpose helicopters that would primarily be used for transport, and unlike the MI-24s, can also be used for civilian protection and rescue.
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/03/30...on-to-ukraine/
 
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North Macedonia Slates ‘Scandalous’ Bulgarian Push for Role in Constitutional Change


Sinisa Jakov Marusic Skopje BIRN April 6, 2023 14:33

North Macedonia leaders have reacted with outrage to Bulgaria's call for it to be given a 'consultative' role in planned changes to the country's constitution.

As North Macedonia gears up for an important constitutional change, to include Bulgarians in the preamble as a constitutive people and so avoid repeated Bulgarian EU blockades, it has condemned a Bulgarian request to be “included” in the process as “scandalous”.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Milkov on Wednesday told media while in Brussels that Sofia wished to be “included” and “consulted” in the process of adding Bulgarians in North Macedonia’s constitution. Milkov added that he had informed his counterpart from Skopje, Bujar Osmani, of the request at their last meeting earlier this week, and was expecting a response.

“Sofia’s request is scandalous,” President Stevo Pendarovski responded on Thursday, “Even occupiers do not send such requests to other countries or territories that they have occupied. In the 21st century, a demand to interfere in the internal political or constitutional and legal process of any country is absurd and unprecedented.”
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/04/06...tional-change/
 
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