Seventeen people, including ten policemen, were injured during last night’s violent protest in front of Parliament in Skopje. 26 people were arrested after pushing down the protective fence outside the Parliament, throwing rocks and pyrotechnics at the building and at the riot police and after trying to storm the Parliament, the Interior Ministry (MoI) said […]
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 […]
According to the legend, Alexander the Great arrived at Gordium to have his army rested. In the palace there was an anathema to Jupiter a chariot from Gordios, father of Midas of Phrygia. The chariot yoke was tied with a skull bark, and the knot was so entangled that it was impossible to see how it […]
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 […]
Last night in Skopje there was clash between police and protesters who attacked the police cordon in front of the Republican Assembly. Police used tear gas and shock-bombs to disperse the group that removed the police barricades and began to attack the police. After the crowd’s protest was over, some scattered groups collided with police […]
When he took over the mediation between Macedonia and Greece about two decades ago, Matthew Nimetz probably did not expect that he would end his efforts to overcome the name dispute in almost the end of the eighth decade of his life, and that only then he could finally retire, in the true sense of […]
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 […]
Today is a historic day for the two country, but it is also a historic day for the European Union and the Balkans in general, Federica Mogherini told reporters upon arriving in the village of Otesevo in Macedonia after the signing of the name deal. “Many people were sceptical about the possibility of reaching a […]
The UN name mediator in the Macedonia-Greece negotiations, Matthew Nimetz, said Sunday he had received the best birthday gift with the signing of the agreement that finally closes the decades-long name dispute. Nimetz praised the premiers of Macedonia and Greece, Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras, as well as the countries’ foreign ministers, Nikola Dimitrov and […]
It took a lot of time and efforts to get to this point today, the EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, told reporters after signing of the agreement on settling Athens-Skopje name dispute. This is a historic day and opportunity for the citizens of North Macedonia to get positive feedback with […]
The country is proud of choosing a ‘uniting’ solution, Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Sunday at the signing of an agreement closing the years-long name dispute between Macedonia and Greece. “We are proud of this agreement of ours. We are proud of having been able to unite over a solution to a dispute that […]
The heads of diplomacy of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kodzias, today in Psarades put their signatures to the agreement on resolving the Macedonia-Greece name dispute and strategic partnership, in the presence of the prime ministers Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras. The agreement envisages an erga omnes name for the country, the Republic […]
What a lovely, magnificent and historic day, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev congratulated and addressed the public before signing the Macedonia-Greece name agreement with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. He quoted the famous Greek philosopher Aristotle, saying courage is the greatest virtue and for hope is the greatest dream. – My feeling today is that by […]
