Athens and Skopje are close to resolving the name issue, the Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said today at a press conference in Skopje, on the occasion of of his government’s one-year in office. “We have never been closer to finding a solution to the name issue than we are today, while friendship between the peoples […]
The great expectations from the new government brought the same disappointment among the citizens that gave it a penalty card one year after the enthronement. Targeting priorities for resolving the name dispute and touching sensitive issues of identity and language on account of failure to deliver the promises of economic prosperity, is the key segment […]
There is still no agreement over the name, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said on Wednesday. “There is no agreement yet. As stated by foreign ministers Dimitrov and Kotzias, the principles of the agreement have been defined and now comes the legal-formal aspect of the agreement. I believe a conversation between myself and PM Tsipras will […]
The leader of the Democratic Union for Integration, Ali Ahmeti held meetings today in Pristina with different senior officials of the Kosovan state. Stability and the solution of different contests in the region were some of the topics that were discussed in the meeting that Ahmeti had with the president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci and […]
The negotiations, which aim to resolve the decades-old name row are “difficult” but “necessary,” Greek PM Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday, during a speech at the annual meeting of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, Greek daily Kathimerini writes. Tsipras said the government has handled the talks “with a sense of responsibility and patriotism,” but also with the belief […]
The first meeting of the joint multidisciplinary commission of Macedonia and Bulgaria is expected to be held in the third decade of June on the open historical and educational issues between the two countries, after the governments in Skopje and Sofia signed the Treaty of Good Neighborhood. Our and the historians from Bulgaria will thus […]
If the Macedonian, Greek Prime Ministers, Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras respectively, agree in the next few days on a solution to the name issue in the key phone conversation and convene a meeting in Prespa to make it official, several phases would follow until the parliaments of two countries ratify the deal. Part of […]
After the publication of the document from France and the Netherlands, Besa’s Tetovo Wing claims that it has uncovered the government’s false optimism about the EU integration process The non-paper from France and the Netherlands, which states that Macedonia and Albania have not taken the necessary steps and failed to fulfill the promised reforms, and […]
Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi attended a conference on building modern, professional and representative parliaments on Tuesday. Addressing the participants, Xhaferi said that Macedonia, over the past 27 years of parliamentary democracy, has taken significant steps towards becoming one of the world’s modern democracies. Proof of this, he said, was the last EC report that recommended […]
A government delegation led by PM Zoran Zaev will pay an official visit to Malta on Tuesday and Wednesday. According to the Cabinet’s press release, PM Zaev will meet with President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, and Maltese PM Joseph Muscat, followed by a plenary session between the two government delegations. Zaev will also meet with Maltese Parliament […]
The EU has clearly voiced its intention to support and accompany a possible Skopje-Athens agreement on the name issue, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini told a press conference in Brussels on Monday. The briefing by the Foreign Ministers of both countries on the progress made in name negotiations is […]
The final outcome of this phase of the name negotiations is expected to be known by the middle of this week, announcing a senior government official for Nezavisen daily newspaper. He announces as a key moment for the outcome of the name negotiations the talks between the prime ministers of Macedonia and Greece, Zoran Zaev […]
Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn says the EU is encouraged by the latest round of name talks between Skopje and Athens. Hahn, who attended Monday an informal breakfast organized by Bulgaria and Austria alongside Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov and his European counterparts, tweeted that the meeting was fruitful and […]
The foreign ministers have completed their part, negotiations continue at expert level, and when they finish, the texts prepared by the ministers will be in the hands of the prime ministers for a final agreement, says Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias about the name negotiations. “The foreign ministers have completed the task given by the prime ministers […]
Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov in Brussels told Greek news agency ANA-MPA he believes the name negotiations to be in the final stage. Dimitrov told ANA-MPA he hoped it was possible for a solution to be reached by the start of the EU Summit on June 28, adding that he had a ‘good meeting’ with […]
Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is expected to appear in court this week on three other cases opened by the Special Prosecution. Today, he has been summoned to appear in court regarding the so called “Titanic” case, where, along with his party fellow peers, he’s accused of electoral rigging, vote buying, destruction of electoral materials […]
Macedonia and progress in the name talks will be on the agenda of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday. The Foreign Affairs Council meets several weeks prior to the European Council summit, when EU leaders are set to decide over the European Commission’s recommendation for the start of Macedonia and Albania’s […]
Organizers of protests over “the Greek character of Macedonia” have scheduled fresh gatherings across Greece on June 6. The announcements for the protests come after the latest developments in the name talks. Following protests in Athens and Thessaloniki, the organizers have now reached local authorities in other cities. “Through these protests, the Committee fighting for […]
The prime ministers of Macedonia and Greece have spoken once or twice over the phone after briefing political parties in both countries a week ago, reports Greek TV station “Skai”. The conversations between Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras referred to the implementation of the name for all uses (erga omnes) from the set of proposals […]
Greek daily Kathimerini, citing well-informed sources, says that apart from mediator Nimetz’s four proposals, there is another name on the negotiating table, which has not yet been published in the public, and is associated with Krusevo and the Ilinden period. The Greek newspaper says the new name will reflect the country’s Slavic origins, rejecting links to […]
