Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov had an official meeting Tuesday in Washington with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who voiced strong support for Macedonia to become the 30th NATO member. ‘This is a very significant moment for the Macedonian diplomacy. My meeting today with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was rather encouraging’ Dimitrov told […]
Macedonian language will be the official in the European Union’s 500 million citizens, PM Zoran Zaev writes on his Facebook profile ahead of information campaign on upcoming referendum on deal with Greece and NATO and EU membership bids. Zaev said that by joining the EU, all official communications between the Republic of Macedonia and the […]
Vast majority of Greek MPs will support the Prespa (Skopje-Athens name) Agreement when the document enters the parliament voting procedure, Speaker Nikos Voutsis says for Radio ‘Real FM’. I believe the Macedonian issue and the Prespa Agreement will be supported by more MPs than assumed at the moment as several events, starting with a conference […]
At the next government session on Wednesday, the government will determine how much funds will be allocated for the campaign for the upcoming referendum on the agreement between Macedonia and Greece. So far, only the Ministry of Defense has published information on how much funds will be allocated for the upcoming referendum. Other ministries do […]
The government should decide today on the way in which it will inform the public and the citizens about the importance of the upcoming referendum and the significance of the success of the Agreement with Greece for the future of the country, as well as the negative implications if the referendum fails. Although public propaganda […]
The non-governmental organization Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) reported that only 3.1 per cent of the respondents read the name agreement that the Macedonian government has reached with Greece and that a small part of the ethnic Macedonians are ready to support it at a referendum, although a large percentage will still vote. Public […]
The campaign for the referendum on the name has officially started. This was declared by the State Election Commission. According to the law on the referendum, the campaign starts with the announcement of the decision for the referendum, but so far, none of the large political parties or civil society has started it. The government […]
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev calls on the citizens of Macedonia to vote in the name referendum that is staled for September 30 stressing that ‘now is the time for every citizen of the country to take responsibility for the future.’ “Every one of us is obliged to take responsibility for their own future and for […]
Natural disasters know no boundaries and transcend disputes, says the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs while thanking everyone for offered assistance and support. “We express our sincere gratitude to the Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu, and FYROM, Nikola Dimitrov, for their swift reaction in offering their aerial firefighting capacities for the extinguishing of the […]
We cannot change the universal right the neighbours to be called Macedonians, at an individual or unofficial level, but we can call them however we want, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Sunday in an interview with Greek news agency ANA-MPA. “What we have said is that the citizens of this country have the […]
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will be in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Monday where he will be honored by Denis Zvizdic, President of the Council of Ministers, together with Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, and Montenegrin Prime Minister Duško Markovic. The event is organized by the Center for Peace and Multi-ethnic Cooperation, reports IBNA. […]
More than 40 intellectuals from Europe and the United States in an open letter published in the British daily newspaper The Guardian are seeking the historic agreement of 17 June signed between Macedonia and Greece, which ends the name dispute, to be implemented. In the letter signed by university professors from London, California’s Berkeley, Bologna, […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sent a letter to congratulate Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on the agreement solving the Macedonia-Greece name issue and establishing strategic partnership between the two countries. In the letter, signed by PM Orban also on behalf of the Visegrad Group, he welcomes the agreement reached by Macedonia and Greece to […]
It is obvious that the name agreement will pass in the Greek parliament, otherwise we would not have signed it, says government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos. In an interview with Greek radio Real FM, Tzanakopoulos explains that the government wants a larger majority “for this important agreement, which closes a 25-year-long issue in the best possible […]
The agreement reached between Skopje and Athens shows that persistent negotiations and diplomacy work, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in the interview with the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, noting that Austria supports EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. “We warmly welcome the agreement between the two sides. It shows that persistent negotiations and diplomacy work. For […]
We, the leftists, the democrats and the progressive citizens, support the agreement, because we oppose nationalism and revisionism and we are committed to a peaceful European, Balkan neighborhood, as the agreement surpasses nationalist and religious tensions, reads the text in support of Prespa agreement signed by over 320 Greek intellectuals including university professors, journalists, writers. […]
The Prespa name agreement is very important and positive both for Greece and for FYROM. Once it is finalized, we can implement in practice some very good and positive ideas for cooperation between the two countries in terms of new technologies, says Nikos Pappas, Greek Minister of Digital Policy, Media and Telecommunications. According to him, […]
Jelko Kacin, Slovenia’s Ambassador to NATO, says accession to the Alliance depends solely on Macedonian citizens. “You need to meet the conditions. As soon as this is completed, we expect a positive signal from Athens. If we hadn’t received a positive message from Athens, the Secretary-General would not have signed the document for the accession talks,” […]
The historic agreement between Greece and Macedonia over the name dispute proves that it is possible to overcome deep bilateral differences, if confidence is increased and political will exists, Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office, Michael Roth told Monday. In the statement, prior to his participation at the meeting of […]
President Gjorge Ivanov should sign the law ratifying the name agreement, followed by its confirmation at a referendum, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Thursday. PM Zaev said citizens get a chance for the first time after 27 years to decide about Macedonia’s future. “I believe in our people and success of the process that […]
