SKOPJE, Republic of North Macedonia: After changing its name last year to settle a decades-old battle with Greece, the small Balkan state of North Macedonia was finally on a path to join the European Union. “It certainly feels like we’re going down the same road again,” lamented Bojan Dimevski, a 30-year-old consultant in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. Contested heroBorn in present-day Greece while the region was under Ottoman rule, Delchev taught at a Bulgarian school in what today is North Macedonia. Both Bulgaria and North Macedonia now claim him as their own, with cities, statues, schools and universities named in his honor. Furthermore, Skopje is especially vulnerable now with EU accession dangling in its future, said Bechev.

Source: Manila Times November 17, 2020 16:07 UTC