Armen Ashotyan writes: “On changing the Constitution at the request of the outsiders. The example of North Macedonia.

North Macedonia, which has been negotiating EU membership for more than 20 years, has changed its Constitution at the request of the outsiders.

North Macedonia is one of the best among the countries applying for EU membership in terms of sectoral indicators, but first Greece set a condition for the country called Macedonia that the Constitution and the name of the country must be changed, and in 2018. they changed the Constitution in a referendum and Macedonia was renamed North Macedonia in the hope that this would allow them to quickly become members of both NATO and the EU.

Greece’s demand was met in 2018, but Macedonia was admitted to NATO only because the EU topic was revived again, Greece, considering its demands met, did not make a new demand, but Bulgarian demands came forward.

Bulgaria made a strong demand to North Macedonia to make constitutional changes and to enshrine the constitutional rights of Bulgarians as a national minority in the Constitution.

The Macedonians had promised to do so, but the vote in parliament failed, and now Bulgaria has suspended the EU membership of North Macedonia, technically one of the countries most ready to join the EU.

The other funny thing is that in the case of such problems, the European Union, i.e. official Brussels, has washed its hands of both Greece and Bulgaria and is putting pressure not on Bulgaria or Greece before, but on North Macedonia, forcing it to agree to Bulgaria’s demand, otherwise it cannot become a member of the EU.

This is a very good example of how problems are solved under external pressure, from changing the name of the country to issues related to national minorities.

At the same time, European Commission Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos stated that even if the Bulgarian demand is fulfilled, it will not mean that North Macedonia will become a member of the EU itself.

And this is in the case of North Macedonia, which is not Azerbaijan, is not an aggressor and murderer, is not belligerent and has not committed war crimes.

The example of North Macedonia should be instructive for us, how they force to change the Constitution of the country under external pressure and even in that case they do not guarantee anything, even in the case of the civilized European Union, let alone in the case of Azerbaijan.

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