The Greek Parliament ratified the Prespa Agreement on Friday with 153 lawmakers voting in favour of the name agreement. Against the agreement were 146 Greek MPs, and one deputy abstained from voting. All Syriza parliamentary group members voted in favor of the Prespa Agreement. They were joined by seven independent MPs and one member of the […]
The Greek parliament speaker’s office says a vote οn the ratification of the Prespa Agreement has been pushed back to Friday. The delay aims to accommodate the large number of lawmakers who want to speak during the debate. The vote had been scheduled to take place late Thursday night, but the office said there would […]
The Greek parliament finished the first part of the debate on ratification of the Prespa Agreement in the early hours of Thursday and is set to continue this morning. The vote in Athens will take place in the evening or during the night. Greek media report that opposition party New Democracy will not file a […]
Greek Parliament has started the debate on the ratification of the Prespa Agreement. New Democracy MP Nikos Dendias asked that Macedonia’s Constitution following the constitutional revision is distributed to them, saying “this is a required prerequisite for discussion, because we need to understand the reality if the Greek parliament endorses the agreement.” Democratic Alliance MP […]
The debate in the Greek parliament for the ratification of the Prespa Agreement begins on Wednesday at 10 am local time, and the vote will be on Thursday evening, sources from the Greek parliament said. This was decided at a meeting of the Greek Parliament Speaker with his deputies. According to the same sources, the […]
The Prespes Agreement will come for ratification next week through the contract procedure in the Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs in the Greek Parliament, followed by a discussion and voting in plenary. “We will not follow Fast Track procedures”, the government stresses. Parliamentary speaker Nikos Voutsis said that Greek lawmakers will be voting on […]
The Prespes Agreement will head for ratification next week through the contract procedure in the Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs in the Greek Parliament, followed by a discussion and voting in plenary. “We will not follow Fast Track procedures”, the government stresses. This is the second big bet of the Tsipras Government, since the […]
In an interview with OPEN TV on Wednesday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ruled out the possibility of him leading a minority government, should his coalition with the Independent Greeks party break up over the Prespa Agreement. Alexis Tsipras said he believed junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos will not bring down the government, despite his strong […]
Greece’s government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos has expressed his confidence that the SYRIZA-led administration will secure the 151 votes it needs to adopt the name agreement signed between Athens and Skopje on June 17th, 2018. On Wednesday in a radio interview with News 24/7 , Tzanakopoulos said that in the event that the junior coalition Independent Greeks […]
The “absolute veto” of the law on ratifying the Prespa agreement is probably the last “ammunition” that President Gjorge Ivanov used to obstruct the agreement between the governments of Macedonia and Greece, creating the ground for his political-legal “sendoff” for disrespecting The Constitution. After activating the process on constitutional changes, as the second stage after […]
Greek government spokesperson Dimitris Tzanakopoulos says the Prespa Agreement will be ratified in the Greek parliament. “We can see from the statements given thus far that there is a realistic majority for ratification of the Prespa Agreement in the Greek parliament,” Tzanakopoulos told radio Real FM. Asked about the possibility of early elections in Greece […]
The Parliament endorsed Thursday the law ratifying the name agreement with 69 votes ‘in favor’ and one ‘abstained’. This was the second vote on the law after President Gjorge Ivanov failed to sign the decree for its promulgation after the Parliament had initially passed it on June 20. The opposition did not attend the Parliament […]
A session in which MPs will vote again for the law ratifying the name agreement has been scheduled on Thursday, it was agreed Monday in a coordination meeting of Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi and coordinators of parliamentary groups. Last week, a decision of President Gjorge Ivanov was forwarded to the Assembly saying he wouldn’t sign […]
According to a press release from the Greek Prime Minister’s Office, it is clear that the Greek side has not yet decided how to ratify the Greek-Macedonian Agreement. “When the other party does its best to fulfill the commitments stemming from the Agreement, the government will make decisions regarding the ratification process collectively, always respecting the international […]
The second vote on the law on ratification of the agreement with Greece is scheduled for Thursday, At today’s coordination in parliament, it was agreed that the new session be scheduled on July 5, when at least 61 MPs should declare the ratification for the president to be obliged to sign. The Parliament of Macedonia […]
The parliament session over a second vote of the law ratifying the name agreement will be scheduled on July 5 or 6, said Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi on Friday. Speaker Xhaferi said that if President Gjorge Ivanov failed to sign the decree for the law’s promulgation for the second time, the same solution would be used for both […]
The Parliament has received the decision of President Gjorge Ivanov not to sign the decree for the promulgation of the Law ratifying the Final agreement for the settlement of the differences as described in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 817 (1193) and 845 (1993), the termination of the Interim Accord of 1995, and the establishment […]
Macedonia’s Parliament adopted Wednesday the law on ratification of the Final Agreement for the settlement of the differences as described in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 817 (1993) and 845 (1993), the termination of the Interim Accord of 1995 and the establishment of a strategic partnership. Lawmakers voted 69-0 to ratify the agreement, while […]
The agreement marks the beginning of the end of uncertainty for Macedonia and represents dignified and acceptable solution for both sides, with which the Macedonian identity and language is permanently confirmed, PM Zoran Zaev said Wednesday prior to start of parliament’s session at which name agreement with Greece should be ratified. “We have an agreement […]
People gathered Tuesday outside the Parliament’s building in Skopje to protest against ratification of the agreement with Greece on settling the name issue. Some one hundred people protested as the MPs at a session voted in favor of approving the necessity to ratify the name deal in a fast-tracked procedure. Today’s protest was peaceful and […]
