Book launch dedicated to Dr. Marcin Sokołowski’s book “National Identity of Macedonians in the Process of European Integration”

On 25 May 2026 at 3:00 PM in Room 5, a book launch of Dr. Marcin Sokołowski’s work will take place, in which the author describes the impact of the European integration process on Macedonian national identity, related to the position of neighbouring states, by presenting the complex Macedonian-Greek and Macedonian-Bulgarian relations. He discusses the results of scientific research on the national identity of Macedonians, which he conducted in 2016-2018. He presents an analysis of documents and international agreements with Greece and Bulgaria. He also characterises the opportunities and threats concerning the European integration process and its impact on Macedonian identity from the perspective of the state’s future membership in the European Union. He also draws attention to the questioning of this identity by neighbouring states – Greece and Bulgaria. Due to Greece’s demands, Macedonia, as the only EU candidate state, faced the dilemma of changing the constitutional name of the state, as well as the names of over one hundred state institutions. Furthermore, the Greek and Bulgarian authorities questioned the existence of both the Macedonian nation and its language.