Guide to SKOPJE

The 8 absurdities of the Balkan Greater State nationalism

1. Every country in the Balkans believes that it should be bigger than it is. We’d need at least one more Balkan peninsula to satisfy everybody.
2.But none of them considers that as taking something away from the others. Rather they see it as “regaining their own territories”.
3.All countries have “historical arguments” that they should be bigger than they are: old maps, Rosetta stones, testimonies and prophecies, monastery scripts…