Macedonia and Bulgaria's long-simmering dispute over the Macedonian language is threatening to boil over again, just as Skopje nears a resolution to its dispute with Greece over the name "Macedonia." ...

The accusations from the Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Hristijan Mickoski, against Bulgaria have grown increasingly contradictory and are approaching the absurd. Mickoski criticized Bulgaria for ...

Macedonia has recognized a 10-year-old private university that teaches in the Albanian language, in a step intended to remove a major source of conflict between the country’s two main ethnic groups.

Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry is trying to calm a potential dispute with Bulgaria, after the Bulgarian Defence Minister accused the Skopje government of 'playing tricks with history'. Bulgarian Defense ...

For the first time ever in Greece, an official Macedonian language centre will deliver online courses in Macedonian in Greece and advocate for the linguistic rights of the country's Macedonian ...

A surprise initiative by France's waning EU presidency to end a two-year dispute over shared Balkan culture in time for this week's European summit hung in the balance ahead of a June 22 deadline, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACTCognitive linguistic researches basically place metaphors as tool and as a cognitive ability to join the motivation and the real ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia, July 20 -- As another Balkan country stumbles toward full-scale civil war, peace pivots on what seems to many outsiders a mere symbol -- language reform. Western-mediated talks ...

(GHM/IFEX) – GHM condemns the censorship by the Greek daily newspaper “Makedonia” of an article on the banned Macedonian language in Greece that was to be published on 14 August 2005, in the regular ...