I disagree. Of course there are people who are doing ti for those reasons but mainly it's because they have to. To buy a car in Bulgaria and drive it Macedonia, you don't need a citizenship, you need a company. I was interested to buy one and I know the whole process. You can go to Bulgaria and open a company, all legal. You need to pay solicitors and declare that you have money in the bank. Once all that is confirmed by the court you are given the right to work uvoz izvos. You buy a car which is the company car and you drive it Macedonia. Legally in Macedonia only the person the owner of the company, therefore the car is allowed to drive it and no one else. But if you have a fat pocket it will be easy to get around our police.
Another thing which you guys don't realise is that it;s not just Macedonians in Macedonia who got these passports, thousands and thousands of Macedonians who lived in the EU illegaly got them too. Young people who were illegal and haven't seen their families for years and years, the only way to get back was to either get a passport or go back and never come back. A lot of people could not afford that because they were the bread winners for the families back home. I understand that it feels like betrayal but mainly people have done it because they had to. If I were put in that position I would have done it too. I could have not stayed and lived in Macedonia with my mother penniless and my father not beeing paid for months. I had to go, so others did too. I have been through that where you need to make a decision about your life and sometimes you need to do it for everyone, not just you. I did not have to go down that road but thousands of Macedonians in the UK had to coz it was their only option. It's not all black and white. If my mother had some unemployment benefits and my dad got paid regulary even if it;s not enough I would have go on to do my degree in Skopje, but reality is they didn't. My parents are not the only one, most people there age are in that group. Those people build the country and now are left with nothing. But our gov every day seems to be finding more and more money to fund projects that are in no way priority. We are in the Diaspora, for us it's pride to see Aleksandar in the middle of Skopje, for us is pride to show how fun and forward is Macedonia, but for the Macedonian people is not. Their daily lifes are survival.
Another thing which you guys don't realise is that it;s not just Macedonians in Macedonia who got these passports, thousands and thousands of Macedonians who lived in the EU illegaly got them too. Young people who were illegal and haven't seen their families for years and years, the only way to get back was to either get a passport or go back and never come back. A lot of people could not afford that because they were the bread winners for the families back home. I understand that it feels like betrayal but mainly people have done it because they had to. If I were put in that position I would have done it too. I could have not stayed and lived in Macedonia with my mother penniless and my father not beeing paid for months. I had to go, so others did too. I have been through that where you need to make a decision about your life and sometimes you need to do it for everyone, not just you. I did not have to go down that road but thousands of Macedonians in the UK had to coz it was their only option. It's not all black and white. If my mother had some unemployment benefits and my dad got paid regulary even if it;s not enough I would have go on to do my degree in Skopje, but reality is they didn't. My parents are not the only one, most people there age are in that group. Those people build the country and now are left with nothing. But our gov every day seems to be finding more and more money to fund projects that are in no way priority. We are in the Diaspora, for us it's pride to see Aleksandar in the middle of Skopje, for us is pride to show how fun and forward is Macedonia, but for the Macedonian people is not. Their daily lifes are survival.
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