The Macedonian Question.

 

For Croatia is almost certain the invitation,and is to a degree almost certain for Albania to,

But not for Macedonia,who still has its poroblems going on with Greece regarding its very name which Greece objects to it being Macedonia.

Untill now Macedonia has been called FYROM internationaly,and Greece has threatened to use its veto as a right of an NATO member to deny entry to Macedonia unless it changes its Constitutional name.This are the points.

 

1-) Is Greece right in influencing the Constitution of another indipendent country?

 

2-) Is Macedonia right in claiming historical heritage from ancient Macedonia?

 

3-)Is Greece right in using its NATO membership to deny others entry by veto,and not based on the merits?

 

 

In my opinion Greece is little to blame on this particular issue in the Balkans.Macedonians can not simply try to create an historical heritage on the shoulders of other people who have a sense of history and national belonging for many centuries now.

 

By doing this they are bound to have their way blocked by the big guys of History and Culture in that part of Europe, which are Greece and Bulgaria,and also the Albanians.

 

That does in no way mean that the Nation of Macedonia should not exist,no ,why ever not? Nations have all been created at a time,once the population inhabiting the particular administrative region start to have a sense of national belonging then we are in front of an foregone conclussion,we are dealing with a new nation.

 

To blame thou,in this instance are the politicians and academics in Macedonia,which put at the hart of their new Nation a glorious ancient history,making Alex the Great a Macedonian and at the same time a Slavic person,making Mother Teresa a Macedonian (by ethnicity) simply based on the fact that she was born in Skopje(at a time when it was the ottoman empire anyway) going completely against any hard historical proof,and even contemporary history,as is the case with Mother Teresa.So this kind of behaviour is unacceptable,and Greece i think is right that when faced with such  ludicrous claims,to push for this new nation to have a different name.

 

I expect your reactions guys,but cool reactions please ,lets not get on fire on this topic.