The leader of the largest political party in Greece, New Democracy, after a meeting with the Greek PM on Saturday rejected any possibility of providing support to the current administration to muster a wide national consensus over the name issue. Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis after meeting PM Alexis Tsipras lambasted the way in which the […]
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to hold meetings with the president, political leadership of the Foreign Ministry, his coalition partner and leaders of political parties on latest developments in regard to the results of discussions at Davos over the name issue. According to the Greek media, Tsipras met Friday morning with his coalition partner, Defence Minister […]
By eight votes ‘against’ and three ‘for’ the Athens municipality council rejected Thursday the demand of Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris for adopting a resolution of support for the upcoming protest in the Greek capital for ‘defending the name Macedonia’. Athens Mayor Georgios Kaminis suggested for the demand to be rejected, saying that referendums and […]
Settlement of the name issue would bring greater stability to the Western Balkans, says Kurt Volker, former U.S. ambassador to NATO and current US envoy for the conflict in the Ukraine. “Of course I hope to see progress on the name issue. It will be in the interest of both countries. I believe that there […]
The meeting of the PMs Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras is good news, because only through dialogue problems and open issues could be solved, EU Ambassador Samuel Zbogar said Thursday in Bitola. “In the past several months, the governments of Macedonia and Greece have really established a very intensive dialogue so as to create an […]
Bulgaria supports efforts of the PM Zaev’s government, the institutions, the civil society sector and the media for Macedonia to return on the path to Euro-Atlantic integration, Bulgarian Ambassador to Macedonia Ivan Velikov Petkov said Thursday’s presenting priorities of the Bulgarian EU Council presidency. “Yesterday we heard an encouraging message in Davos at the meeting […]
Davos – Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, welcomed Wednesday’s meeting between Prime Minister of Macedonia and Greece Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras, assessing it as very good news. The meeting shows courage, vision and statesmanship. Solving this long-standing issue will be good for the countries, the region and Europe, Hahn […]
Macedonia and Greece will increase the level of the name negotiation process. The future process will be attended by the foreign ministers of both countries, under the auspices of the United Nations. This was announced by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev today, after the first direct meeting with his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras, which lasted for […]
A coordination meeting over the framework proposed recently by the UN mediator in the name talks, Matthew Nimetz, will take place on Saturday afternoon at the MPs’ Club. The meeting, initiated by the Foreign Ministry (MoFA), will be attended by President Gjorge Ivanov and the leader of the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, MoFA told […]
Scheduling a referendum in Greece over the name issue would be a catastrophic mistake, says Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis and adds that the solution must be comprehensive not focused solely on the name. Kaminis told Greek radio Thema 104,6 that although majority of Greeks support a referendum in opinion polls, its scheduling would be wrong, […]
The incumbent Greek administration will be seeking a solution to the name dispute regardless of the political price it has to pay, provided that the other party is also demonstrating preparedness to solve it, because it takes two to tango, Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Georgios Katrougalos told Greek MPs, MIA reported. He accused the […]
Enhancement of bilateral relations in the context of the confidence-building measures and analysis of results from the renewed talks over the name issue will be in the focus of Wednesday’s first direct meeting of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras, taking place at the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in […]
The timing is ideal for resolving the name issue between Macedonia and Greece, US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt said on Monday. Following the meeting with Thessaloniki mayor Yiannis Boutaris, Pyatt said that after the change in the leadership of the neighbouring country, conditions for constructive talks are created, MIA reports. Boutaris briefed the ambassador […]
Преговарачите за спорот околу името, Васко Наумовски и Адамантиос Василакис, веќе нема да се среќаваат со посредникот Метју Нимиц. Преговорите за името ќе ги водат делегации од министерствата за надворешни работи на Македонија и на Грција, предводени од министрите Никола Димитров и Никос Коѕијас. Поинтензивно ќе комуницираат и директорите за Балкан во министерствата, Александра Миовска […]
We expect progress towards reaching a mutually acceptable solution, said Greek government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos on Monday, MIA reports from Athens. Tzanakopoulos told a regular press briefing that issues related to the name talks and irredentism would be tackled at the meeting between the countries’ prime ministers in Davos on Wednesday. “Recently there have been […]
The UN mediator for the naming dispute between Greece and Macedonia Matthew Nimetz intends to visit Athens and Skopje in the next ten days and to discuss the issue, Greece’s state broadcaster ERT reports. Media outlet told that UN mediator has expressed optimism and considered that dispute over the name of Macedonia could be resolved […]
– The Enlargement Strategy, entitled “The Credible Enlargement Perspective for the Western Balkans” will be presented on February 6 during the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the portal European Western Balkans is exclusively learned. As confirmed for our portal in Brussels, the College of European Commission, chaired by President Jean-Claude Juncker, will […]
About 60.000 Greeks gathered yesterday in Thessaloniki for the protest paid and organized by the diaspora and the right-wing organizations in the country, in order to demand from the government in Athens to not accept a name that includes the word “Macedonia” in the negotiations with our country. More people showed up at the protest […]
Thousands of people, carrying banners with messages ‘Macedonia was, will be Greek’; ‘The name is our soul’, took Sunday to the streets Thessaloniki to ‘defend the name’, MIA reports. Hardline clerics, far-right leaders and Greek diaspora groups have called for the protest against the use of term ‘Macedonia’ in any solution to Athens-Skopje name dispute. […]
Under the title ‘If there is an opportunity for a solution, it would be a national stupidity not to make good use of it’ Sunday’s edition of the Greek newspaper Ethnos conveys an interview of Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras related to Athens-Skopje name dispute, MIA reports from Athens. ‘The solution would mean a mutually […]
