Professor claims bone exchange with Greece violates Prespa Agreement
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Diplomacy and archaeology have collided over the remains of Tsar Samuil. A Macedonian professor claims that a recent deal between Sofia and Athens is a farce, alleging that the bones moved to Bulgaria were those of a Greek clergyman rather than the medieval ruler. The transfer of such artifacts, he argues, is a breach of the Prespa Agreement's rules on cultural heritage.
Domestic administration has had a difficult day on several fronts. An expert commission was found to have discriminated against a blind man by requiring him to prove his disability annually before eventually cutting his aid. Meanwhile, the education ministry is facing questions over a nationwide shortage of textbooks and a threat to salary supplements for teachers in Struga.
The summer’s environmental toll has been quantified at 41,000 hectares of land lost to wildfires, at a cost of several million euros. In the north, interest in the Ilovica mining project is being framed through the lens of the global data center boom; copper demand is projected to rise as global projections estimate data center investments could reach $7 trillion by 2030.