THE TABOO SUBJECT OF EUROPE OPENS A BIG DOOR
- In France, the question of French identity is also raised on a philosophical level. That’s how she needs it. But the French will decide for their own identity. Hence the question – why is the question of their own identity invasively imposed on the Macedonians?
- Macron’s framework for negotiations with the EU is a continuation of the genocidal policy towards the Macedonians and it must be stopped. Macedonians today face their dilemma – who are they today in the 21st century and what do they have in their heritage from their ancestors. They must not accept the identity struggle of a part of Europe as their own, but they need to stand on their own feet and determine what kind of future we have in this country.
In times of tectonic geopolitical shifts, the identity of states and nations inevitably emerged as one of the main issues. If until yesterday we thought that this topic was not important, as Macedonia was taught that history was not important (and now we see that it was very important for the big nations), with the fall of the old liberal world order it falls like the Tower of Babel and globalization, the main blue pill of the corporate world.
The issue of identity is now being raised in France ahead of next year’s presidential election. This taboo topic, which is not only in France but for the European continent, is opened at the highest social level – by top philosophers. Where is France going, what future France will the French live in and what will their identity be are questions that require answers and solutions. And when changes happen in France, because it is a country created by revolutionary changes, they will not be only in Europe, but will have a much larger scope.
“THE IDEA OF FRANCE”
The issue of identity, which both the far right and the radical left are grappling with directly, calls for political solutions to heal the divisions as the 2027 presidential election approaches, explains Pascal Blanchard, an expert on colonization. He is the co-author of the philosophical work “Should we apologize for colonization”, a question that is one of the most sensitive for the French Republic, but also for several European countries. That issue can also threaten royalism, as the fundamental political basis of European parliamentarism.
– One year before the presidential elections in 2027, why does identity occupy so much space in the public debate? Whether we like it or not, we will have to talk about identity, and it will be one of the main topics of the presidential campaign, although not the only one. In France, there is a history, people and narrative that shape the present. Colonial history, for example, remains taboo, but it is present in our streets, our memories and our lives. It sheds light on something unprecedented: No other society has undergone such sudden and significant changes – Blanchard points out.
The “idea of France” itself involves the intersection of multiple concepts, but mainly it is a conflict over whether France is a nation defined by its historically homogeneous culture or by its shared republican values. And French values and historical heritage are a diverging street. We remember the scandal when he chanted during a football match to the chanting of the “Marseillaise”. Who and why does that anthem bother? Well, yes, we will agree that identity is not something that is taken for granted (Goran Stefanovski) and it is not cemented, but changes. It is a question now only for the French. But do you? If so, then why precisely the French are imposing a new identity on the Macedonians through a wafer called the EU membership negotiation framework. And the EU is an organization that can break up or take a new form. Hence, we should conclude that it is not worth giving an identity to something that is uncertain.
MULTI-CULTS OR “MELTING POT”
The identity issue was particularly dealt with by Chancellor Angela Merkel, and it was during her mandate that it was said that the multi-culture “experiment” in Germany (but also in Europe) was unsuccessful. A society in which different entities will function together with native Germans cannot function, and that means it will generate problems. But have things gone too far in Germany, especially with its open doors to immigrants, peaking during the Syrian crisis, so that it is now difficult to return to its roots, to its German archetype? Perhaps, but Chancellor Friedrich Merz is trying just such an approach – a return to the old German pragmatic Teutonic principles and a clear demonstration of European leadership and power – economic and military. He can now, after so many decades in the shadow of the other greats, tell US President Donald Trump that he and America have been humiliated in the war with Iran. Will and how will Trump repay him? We don’t know, maybe he doesn’t see this as a serious threat, because it is obvious that the stake of the MAGA-concept is in the AfD, a far-right party. It is she who shapes the new German identity, either as a consequence or as a cause.
Europe was looking for its own model of integration, because it did not want to copy the American model called the melting pot, i.e. a cauldron in which nations are mixed in one – the American nation. And be proud of it. A model that proved to be successful in creating the Macedonian state in antiquity, especially during the reign of Philip II, who united 16 Macedonian tribes. In Europe, nobody wants to be put in the cauldron. Everyone is fighting for their national or ethnic identity, or even linguistic identity. Are the Macedonians an exception here? Only partially.
PEDRO SANCHEZ – A EUROPEAN LEADER OR A MODERN DON QUIXOTE?
With the weakening of neoliberalism, especially in Europe, the clash of two concepts – the left and the extreme right – comes to the fore. The moderate right has unfortunately lost its distinctive Christian Democratic identity and Europe has nothing to be proud of anymore. Donald Trump or JD Vance didn’t have to say it publicly to their friends on the other side of the Atlantic, because it became more than obvious – the main issues became the rights of the LGBT community, the right to euthanasia, the right to adopt children of gay marriages… The churches stare blankly, and the Vatican approves of it.
The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, is seen today as a left-wing feather, not only in Europe but globally, as some hope of the neoliberals that they can survive this coming geopolitical tsunami, the strong wave of sovereignty. He not only banned the Americans from using the NATO bases but recently in Barcelona he publicly said that he will fight (a global fight) with Trump’s right-wing. This is a serious gauntlet and could be considered crossing the red lines of political etiquette, if any, but Spain has global influence, especially in some states in the United States. These messages of Sánchez are a kind of manifesto of the left, or the parties of the center, which stand for the preservation of the values of the world that we know. His statement in which he attacks the oligarchs as people who take away the houses of the poor, that is, of average citizens, is interesting. But the question is, who created that system, which still rules? It was Spain that suffered at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 when mortgage lending was more dangerous than the Spanish flu of 1918. Isn’t that exactly the system the liberals created? Which, of course, is another identity issue. And finally, this positioning may be more like the act of a modern Don Quixote than a reasonable and pragmatic leftist, who is asserting himself as a European leader.
MACEDONIA – CONTINUOUS TARGET OF IDENTITY LANDERS AND FORGERY
Before moving on to the question of what and how with the Macedonian identity, we will remind you that after the fall of Viktor Orbán, the new Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar did not give up the Hungarian identity. On the contrary. He embraces LGBT policies and rights, which can be seen as a useful filter, but the key point is that he promotes the imperialist idea even more strongly than his predecessor. And Macedonia is also in that sphere of influence, besides the Austrian one, behind which Germany stands sovereignly.
Macedonia today has a crushed identity, which is quite understandable not an autochthonous change (evolution), but the result of aggressive campaigns, propaganda and foreign strategies, the Macedonian identity, if it cannot be erased, at least be transformed. In recent history, several historical moments are crucial – the first is the annexation to Yugoslavia, which is the severing of the historical sequence, including the umbilical connection with ASNOM. And, in recent times, that identity landing has been completed by the agreements with Greece and Bulgaria, which, together with the Ohrid Agreement, erase the historical code of the Macedonian nation. Today it is even forbidden to write about the connections and heritage of Macedonians with the Ancient Macedonians, although there are arguments for such a thing that have been deposited for two millennia. They are erasing that from us. By imposing, i.e. foreign pressure in order to achieve and sign the capitulation agreements from Nivici and for friendship with Bulgaria, the assimilation of an ancient nation with its authentic civilizational heritage is forcibly carried out, and with this the ties of the Macedonian people with the nations with which they had commercial, cultural and other ties in the past and left their heritage such as in Egypt, Afghanistan, and today’s Greece and Bulgaria are also severed.
The imposed French Macron’s framework for negotiations with the EU is a continuation of the genocidal policy towards the Macedonians and it must be stopped. Macedonians today face their dilemma – who are they today in the 21st century and what do they have in their heritage from their ancestors. They must not accept the identity struggle of a part of Europe as their own, but they should stand on their own feet and determine what kind of future we have in this country. Do we want to move around the world as citizens with a slash or as proud heirs of Alexander’s Macedonia. And will we be able to adapt (derivate) that heritage to the needs of the new age. Do we want to write our own Macedonian Kabbalah or will we continue to float through the European river of mixed identities like a log without meaning, purpose and strategy. Do we want to fight and prove that we are the heirs of the ancient Macedonian state, of the ancient Macedonian philosophical academy, heirs of those who embraced Saint Paul and spread Christianity, of the Bogomils, of those who created the word, of the Cyrillic alphabet, of their predecessors who fought against fascism, or will we simply allow ourselves to disappear. And we are already walking the path to extinction and no one will care about that. Everyone will fight for the spoils, because that too is part of the identity matrix that we see and follow in real time today.
