After his meeting Tuesday to discuss EU-Western Balkans cooperation in the area of migration, security, and border management with his Western Balkans counterparts as well as with European Commissioners Dimitris Avramopoulos and Julian King, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski said that Macedonia is firmly against setting up refugee camps on its soil. “Macedonia has been clear […]
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said NATO hopes to start accession talks with Macedonia at the summit, which will be held in Brussels on July 11-12, after Macedonia reached name agreement with Greece. “I hope that there will be progress with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia because they have reached an agreement with Greece on […]
President Gjorge Ivanov calls on PM Zoran Zaev to immediately initiate impeachment procedure, highlighting that his position in regard to the name agreement is final and remains unchanged. “I call on Zaev to immediately initiate impeachment procedure i.e. procedure for determining the President of the Republic’s answerability by the same two-thirds majority vote necessary to […]
A session of the Parliament’s committee on European affairs is scheduled to start at 15:00h in which MPs will be reviewing the draft-law on ratification of the Macedonia-Greece name agreement. The legislative committee’s session is slated for 15:15h. The session shouldn’t take long having in mind that the deal should be only reviewed before the […]
Political analyst Daniel Serwer believes that agreement that Macedonia signed with Greece is not only a major step forward for both countries, but also for entire Balkans, MIA correspondent from Washington reports. Serwer told MIA that if the agreement is passed in both parliaments and if passed on a referendum in Macedonia “it will improve […]
The UK Government has unreservedly welcomed the agreement between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia on the long-standing issue of the latter’s name. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson used his Twitter account to declare his satisfaction at the news of the deal: “Fantastic news that PMs Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras have reached an agreement on the […]
Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Koco Angjusev said Monday that Hellenic Petroleum initiates and the government will gladly accept to meet and to negotiate about the gas pipeline. Angjusev told reporters at the press briefing in the government that negotiations have not started, but will start and the public will be informed about it. “Hellenic […]
The accord about the issue of the name, which was signed yesterday in Prespa by the delegations of Macedonia and Greece, has been approved by the government in Skopje today. After the approval by the government, the bill on the ratification of the agreement regarding the name will be sent to parliament. The agreement may […]
From a million protesters, we’ve gone down to 100,000, and now to 4,000. Greeks have broken stereotypes, Foreign Minister of Greece Nikos Kotzias said Sunday, commenting yesterday’s protests near Prespa. Immediately after the name deal signing, FM Kotzias met with the Regional Governor of Western Macedonia Theodoros Karipidis. Karipidis gave Kotzias a resolution from the […]
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said that after the agreement reached on the name North Macedonia, the EU General Affairs Council could give the green light for starting accession negotiations with Macedonia at the beginning of next week. “The topic of EU enlargement will be discussed at Council meeting. If the […]
After the signing of the agreement regarding the name dispute in Psaderas, the largest opposition party in Macedonia, VMRO-DPMNE held a protest in Manastir to oppose “the agreement about the name reached between Zaev and Tsipras”. The protest was led by the chairman of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, who has reiterated the fact that the agreement […]
Tomorrow is a historic day for Macedonia, a day that paves us the way toward the future, said Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov. “Tomorrow is, in fact, one major step to close the issue, which is as old as the independence of Macedonia, that is from 1991,” Dimitrov said speaking to reporters at the opening of the One […]
After signing the name agreement, scheduled on June 17, Macedonia will be finally allowed to open negotiations to join the EU and to be given an invitation for NATO membership, Ekaterina Zaharieva said on Saturday. “Bulgaria wants Macedonia by the end of June to finally start negotiating with the EU. Truly, there’s no more time and I’m […]
The MP from SYRIZA, Georgios Oursouzidis, addressed the Greek Parliament in Macedonian, that is, the Kostur dialect. He gave support to the agreement between Macedonia and Greece for resolving the name dispute. Oursouzidis, who originates from northern Greece, after the message was given from the rostrum in Macedonian language, that is, in the Kostur dialect, he […]
Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister said she wouldn’t attend the signing of the name agreement between Macedonia and Greece. The event is set to take place on Sunday in the region of Prespa. “It is a bilateral issue between Greece and Macedonia. Two EU commissioners and the UN’s Assistant Secretary General will be attending. We won’t be there,” Ekaterina Zaharieva […]
Greek lawmakers entered the third and final day of debate Saturday on a no-confidence motion against the government over a deal to end a decades-old dispute with neighboring Macedonia over the latter’s name, AP reported. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ left-led coalition government is expected to survive the vote, set for later in the day. His government controls […]
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva began a two-day visit to Macedonia on June 15. Her programme included meetings with local authorities in Strumica and Novo Selo, two municipalities near the border with Bulgaria, followed by participation in the opening ceremony of the One Love Tour festival on June 16, dedicated to Bulgarian and Macedonian cultural […]
The Skopje-Athens name dispute solution will have an enormous significance for the entire region. I am prepared to personally support the referendum, says Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn. “There will be a referendum in September and October and I have made myself available to support the agreement. I have certain […]
The Skopje-Athens name agreement is fair and balanced, representing a very important step, says James , expert on Southeast Europe at the London School of Economics and Political Science. “Being a person dealing with the Western Balkans and wishing to see the area in the EU, I know how important is this step,” sayd Ker-Lindsay. […]
According to exclusive information, the signing of the Agreement on the settlement of the name dispute between Greece and Macedonia will be signed on Sunday, June 17. According to the planner, the signing ceremony will be attended by the Foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia, Nikos Kotzias and Nikola Dimitrov respectively, in the presence of the two […]
