North Macedonia: president in favor of compromise

Thousands of North Macedonians have demonstrated against a proposal under discussion to settle the dispute over history and national identity with neighboring Bulgaria. Yesterday, North Macedonian media reported that the demonstrators in the capital Skopje on Saturday evening followed the call of the nationalist opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, which also demanded the resignation of the government of social democrat Dimitar Kovačevski. VMRO-DPMNE announced another protest rally for yesterday evening.