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The future government of Bulgaria will suffer the consequences of Sofia insisting on its position towards the Republic of Northern Macedonia and not complying with the wishes of the United States and key European countries Germany and France, Northern Macedonian political scientist and historian Blagoyce Atanasovski told Skopje’s Sloboden Pechat newspaper. quoted by “Focus”.
“Bulgaria is already in a dull position. On the one hand, it raised the stakes with a veto. Its political elites wanted to get bigger concessions from us and directed the focus of Bulgarian citizens to this issue, and on the other hand, they are already facing in the future. will face even more pressure from the EU’s most powerful member states, but also from US diplomacy and administration. “
“Although the United States is not a member of the EU, it may usually be more interested in the accession of the Western Balkans to the EU as a geopolitical project to complete the Western security architecture in this part of Europe! Which means that Bulgaria has nominally vetoed of Macedonia, but essentially vetoed American interests in the Western Balkans and deliberately or unknowingly played in favor of the Russians, “Atanasovski explained.
According to his assessment, the Bulgarian state leadership will face increasing pressure to unlock the blocked European integration of the countries of the Western Balkans, but the result of this pressure will not be good for Skopje either.
“Most likely, under the next government, the pressure on official Sofia will increase, but the solution will probably be equally unsatisfactory for both sides, as it is very difficult to get a mutually beneficial position in such a dispute.
If Macedonia’s status is not resolved this year or next, the EU will not only risk increasing Euroscepticism, but the EU’s projected future for all six countries is likely to be completely lost and the region will once again be “on fire” between the interests of the great Western powers and the Eurasian despotisms, above all Russia and China, “Atanasovsky said.
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