Bulgaria lifted its veto last July, allowing North Macedonia to start EU accession negotiations, under EU-negotiated conditions that include adding the Bulgarians as a national ethnicity, along ...

Bulgaria also forced its ethnic Turks and Muslims in general to change their names to Slavic ones given to them by the authorities. This practice peaked between 1984 and 1989.

On 1 January 2007, Romania and Bulgaria become the latest countries to join the European Union. The two nations in south-eastern Europe are relatively unknown in the rest of Europe in terms of their ...

Bulgaria, North Macedonia condemn ethnic-related violence. Jan 21, 2023, 3:07 PM | Updated: Jan 22, 2023, 5:13 am. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of North Macedonia, ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The foreign ministers of Bulgaria and North Macedonia paid a joint visit to a hospital Sunday where a North Macedonian citizen who identifies as Bulgarian is being treated ...