To be...or not to be!

Reading the news today about Eurovision(Europe song contest) and our Macedonian presence there, seems like there was a big fuss behind the stage, apart from the song contest. Apparently Greek delegation threatened the rest of the countries, if they dont call us FYROM when announcing the results, they will face sanctions.

Because i am writing a paper on EU, and its cultural and identity issues, made me think what is one state contained of. Realized that even that we are independent country for 16 years, we might not be in future time, so these couple of years are crucial for us. why?

Nationality and history, religion, culture and language are the pillars of identity of one state. so looking where we are as a state and what problems are we facing with our neighbors.

The name issue with Greece, FYROM means Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Yugoslavia doesnt exist anymore. how can we still have this name of non-existing country. Greeks are denying our existence and nationality. there is a lot of politics involved in this one. Seems like a won battle for us, cause no one calls us FYROM, but has its political implications, and the powerful Greek lobby is doing a great job out there(we changed our flag 15 years ago, and made us to accept the temporary name FYR Macedonia, but only for 10 years, time that has passed long ago, and there is still no agreement with Greece).

Serbian Church doesnt recognize the name of our church(Macedonian Orthodox Church). in Orthodox Christianity you have to be under some mother regional church. because we are the youngest one (together with Montenegro) we have to get under Serbian(and Serbia is under Greece), and not only that, but they are trying to establish new parallel church here(luckily that didnt work out).

And the language and culture, Bulgaria is denying our language and culture, saying that we are some ancestor of Bulgarians or whatever which is completely ridiculous and make me laugh, but the issue is still there( just have in mind that Macedonia is a biblical nation and one of the oldest, and there is 300.000 ppl Macedonian minority in Bulgaria, but they dont have the right to say that they are Macedonians).

And we had conflict with Albanian minority here 6 years ago. Pretty much the same as the rest of the Balkan conflicts...

So seems like everyone around wants to get a piece of our ass. so thats why there are all these issues opened. and they are shaking the pillars of our nations existence.

well, getting in EU(candidate country) and NATO(will get invitation to join in 6 months), means that we have to resolve this issues first, and that gives lack of time on these countries to pressure us to accept their ultimatum(Greece is threatening with veto and different economic embargo's, Bulgaria to accept their cultural heritage, Serbia to accept the parallel church to the one we have).

and our politicians are so stupid, that they are so divided with day to day issues and political marketing in order to stay or get on power, that they are completely lost. thank God we have support from big countries like US, Russia, UK, Germany, China to drive us and resolve this issue, otherwise we would be completely fucked up :)

well, instead of caring about economy(sucks), unemployment(one of biggest in Europe), democracy(we are kinda good on this one) and environment(going in bad direction) like everyone else, we are still stuck with this. and i am kinda tired of all this denial bullshit.

i look forward to the next couple of years when most of these things will be gone.

yeah, and one final thing...Dont you FYROM me, Say Macedonia :)!