The High Cost of EU Membership for North Macedonia
After Macedonian concessions to Greece, Bulgaria too demands its pound of flesh.
Perspectives | EU23/06/2021
The Macedonian question was only a ploy for securing political points ahead of the election and not a real problem of the citizens of Bulgaria.
As always, internal political interests have priority over good neighborly relations.
Prime Minister Zaev publicly stated a number of times that an alternative to the EU does not exist for North Macedonia.
Sonja Stojadinović
Sonja Stojadinović is a political scientist with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Saints Cyril and Methodius University’s Political Sciences Faculty in Skopje (International Politics Department). She is an activist with the “Solidarnost” leftist movement and a columnist working with a number of North Macedonian, regional, and international websites and blogs. She is currently pursuing another MA at the Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz, Austria.