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North Macedonia s EU challenges: the Bulgarian ego and mechanisms of defence - New Eastern Europe - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs

Bulgarian Minister of Defence Krasimir Karakachanov. Photo: Arno Mikkor (cc) wikimedia.org On November 17th, the Bulgarian government officially announced that it does not approve of the EU negotiation framework for North Macedonia’s accession process and thus practically blocked the country’s membership process. What was the role of Bulgaria in supporting Skopje’s EU aspirations and what made possible Sofia’s anti-Macedonian turn in the past year? I will try to address these questions in the following analysis, with a little help from the psychoanalytic conceptual apparatus. Macedonia’s pro-EU turn In May 2017, the leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, became Prime

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