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Euractiv ( 20 May 2021)

Krassen Nikolov

The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry has summoned Croatian ambassador to Sofia, Jasna Ognjanovac, for talks after harsh criticism directed at Sofia’s foreign policy by Croatian President Zoran Milanović.

The move comes after a summit of Slovenia and Croatia with the countries of the Western Balkans(*), where Milanović announced that Bulgaria is putting Northern Macedonia “in an impossible position” to start EU membership talks.

(*) AVİM considers the term "Western Balkans" to be a politically motivated separatist terminology and persists on the use of the geographical and historical identification "Balkans" regarding the region.

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