The Greek government junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), headed by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, sticks to the position against including the term Macedonia in the name of our country. The party’s strong position was once again reiterated by the ANEL’s spokeswoman Madalena Papadopoulou in an interview with RealFM radio. “We cannot accept the name […]
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini seem to support the need for parliamentary endorsement of a possible name agreement by a larger majority, reads Greek daily “Avgi”. The paper claims that Athens has received advice and recommendation from Brussels to increase the majority required for a ‘green light’ to […]
The integration of FYROM into NATO and the EU requires a name solution, which prescribes the constitutional review and the elimination of irredentism, said Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos in his address after being proclaimed an honorary citizen of the municipality of Peonia. – There is one way forward for the integration of FYROM into NATO and […]
The opposition VMRO-DPMNE called Sunday for an urgent leaders’meeting, at which Primer Zoran Zaev and Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov in the presence of President Gjorge Ivanov would brief on the details and pace of Skopje-Athens name negotiations. VMRO-DPMNE secretary general Igor Janusev told a press conference on Sunday that the party leader, Hristijan Mickovski, cut […]
Conveying the statement of the UN mediator in Athens-Skopje name negotiations, Matthew Nimetz, Greek media reported Sunday that now the solution to the matter is in the hands of Prime Ministers Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras. ‘Tsipras-Zaev meeting: New window for Solution’; ‘Skopje issue: The Baton in the PMs’ Hands; ‘Sounio revives ambitions for settling […]
Macedonian and Greek Prime Ministers Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras will met in Sofia on May 17, UN mediator on Skopje-Athens name talks said Saturdayafter the new round of negotiations in Sounio near Athens with the foreign ministers of both countries. ‘I can characterize today’s meeting as rather serious and frequently tense. We have worked hard and […]
Greek media reports indicate that Athens and Skopje are heading rapidly toward a new interim agreement that will enshrine the new name of the northern neighbor – sources say Upper Macedonia – and give the country two years to change its constitution and establish use of the new name at home. ‘The UN Security Council […]
Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov considers the meeting with his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias and UN mediator Matthew Nimetz, which to take place Saturday in Sounio, as rather significant, MIA reports from Athens. ‘It is a fact that we have entered the most delicate phase. Tomorrow is a day of great significance, as the meeting is taking place only few […]
Tomorrow in Sounio near Athens, Dimitrov, Kotzias and Nimetz will continue the name negotiations on which depends Macedonia’s accession to the European Union. It remains to be seen whether the parties this time will be able to overcome the differences about the problematic issues. The new meeting in Athens is preceded by a meeting between […]
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev expects good news from Athens ahead of tomorrow’s fresh round of name talks in Greece’s capital. ‘My optimism is based in the progress made thus far. I am pleased to say that we (this government) are recording results in spheres that nobody has ever managed to achieve for the last 27 years. I’ll […]
Forty-five percent of Greeks have an understanding for the perspective of a compound name including term ‘Macedonia’, show results of a survey of agency Prorata released by newspaper “Ethnos”. In the survey, 23 percent said the perspective of recognizing FYROM with a compound name including term Macedonia causes anger, 14 percent responded they are ashamed […]
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Saturday progress has been made in the talks regarding a solution to the name dispute. “Progress has been made regarding the creativity of solutions, of course maintaining the dignity and identity. These ideas are put on the table and we are considering them,” PM Zaev told reporters at the sidelines of an […]
Commissioner of European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn has said his recent statement that the name issue could be solved in a couple of weeks was misinterpreted. “That was a mistake, there is a recording of this. I said I have faith that a solution can be reached in a couple of weeks, […]
I believe that Macedonia and Greece together can reach a solution prior to the Council of the EU, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said answering questions at a news conference on Wednesday. Asked when he expected a name solution to be sent to the UN, Zaev said the parties were ‘not far away from reaching a solution, […]
At the invitation of Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, Nikola Dimitrov will attend the third quadripartite meeting between the FMs of Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, and Macedonia taking place in Thessaloniki on May 3 and 4. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, other ministers and high representatives from all four countries’ Ministries of Internal Affairs and […]
The frequent contacts between the heads of diplomacy of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kotzias, in the last period, continue this week in Thessaloniki. Both on Thursday and Friday will participate in the quadrilateral forum featuring their colleagues from Bulgaria and Albania. The previous Dimitrov-Kotzias meeting was last week in Vienna on the […]
Great progress made in negotiations We believe that great progress has been made in the negotiations and we hope that this progress can be maintained, but time will tell, US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt said, Greek news agency ANA-MPA reports. Pyatt spoke at the event in Thessaloniki before graduated students at American Universities and answering […]
The impossible becomes possible, European Council President Donald Tusk said Friday in regard to the process for settling Athens-Skopje dispute over Macedonia’s name. Speaking at a joint press conference with leaders of the Brdo-Brijuni Process, Tusk voiced satisfaction with the tangible progress of the name talks, which to a great extent ‘is a result of the efforts […]
The municipalities of Skopje and Athens signed Friday an agreement for cooperation. The document was signed by the mayors of the capitals of Macedonia and Greece, Petre Silegov and Georgios Kaminis respectively. “After signing the agreement, Skopje and Athens will start sharing information, experiences, new practices and nourishing cooperation in various spheres of our duties and competences, […]
PM Zoran Zaev expects a step forward to be made at today’s meeting in Vienna between Macedonian and Greek foreign ministers Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kotzias with the UN mediator Matthew Nimetz. Zaev believes in two foreign ministers and he is also an optimist, he told reported at presentation of annual employment programme. “There is […]
