With Bulgaria set to join the EU next year, Macedonians are lining up get Bulgarian citizenship entitling them to the rights of fellow European Union citizens.
Die Welt reports that around 20,000 Macedonians already have Bulgarian passports while another 20,000 have applied to the Sofia authorities for citizenship.
To get citizenship, Macedonians have to prove that they have some ancestral connection to Bulgaria - but with the intertwined history of the two countries, this is not ...
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