Bulgaria must react much more sharply of the anti-Bulgarian rhetoric of the rulers in the Republic of North Macedonia, as Greece does.
Prof. Kiril Topalov, who is a member of the bilateral commission on historical and educational issues, told this to the BNR.
He confirmed that the commission meets regularly. Its last meeting was in Sofia, and the next one will be in Skopje.
There is no visible progress on the subject of history, culture and identity from the meetings, says Prof. Kiril Topalov. The representatives of North Macedonia in the historical commission have a clear political task of not deviating from the postulates of their science.
"Which deceives her society. It is not an argument that Samuil was a Bulgarian king and that always this region – Macedonia was part of the Bulgarian state," he said.
The new rulers in Skopje are intensifying the anti-Bulgarian hysteria.
"The fact that in order to win presidential or parliamentary elections, you have to declare fierce anti-Bulgarianism is exasperating. Because it means that their society is already permeated by this ferocious anti-Bulgarianism. They managed to turn the key to the thinking, to the identity, to the historical memory of this society. And to subordinate it to the intentions of Belgrade, which is acting under the command of Moscow, to prevent Macedonia from entering the European Union", comments Prof. Topalov.
The society in our southwestern neighbor wants the country to be part of the EU.
As for the effect of the idea of acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev for the European Council to reaffirm its conclusions from July 2022 and from December last year and to call on Skopje to fulfill the commitments already made, Prof. Topalov said: "I hope so. In my opinion, Bulgaria should react much more sharply. How Greece reacted".