Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and VMRO party leader Krassimir Karakachanov threatened to block Macedonia’s path to the EU and NATO if its Prime Minister Zoran Zaev continues to claim that the Prespa Agreement with Greece virtually recognises the “Macedonian language”.
Karakachanov protested that Zaev’s words before the parliament in Skopje, insisted that the historic agreement between Greece and Macedonia clarified the existence of a separate “Macedonian language” an idea that Bulgaria has long disputed.
The Bulgarian Ministry warned of the danger of making similar counter-responses that would create a chain of negative reactions and cold separate Macedonia and Bulgaria and create hostility instead of friendship.
In response, Skopje’s Foreign Ministry said, that his country will continue its active, constructive and good neighbourly policy in the future in the spirit of the Treaty with Bulgaria and the European values.
Political analysis by Plamen Asenov.
