Doomsday in the Balkans, Tragedy in the Caucasus, Stalemate in Belarus
Fiddling while the West burns
The most troubling news in European security involves an issue so abstruse that it is hard to take seriously: the Bulgarian neurosis about the Macedonian language. Yet a row over this threatens to derail EU enlargement, destabilise the Western Balkans and leave the door open for renewed Russian and Chinese influence.
The great Dmitar Bechev explains it…