Spiros Sideris The meeting of the Supreme Co-operation Council, between Greece and Serbia, held in Belgrade, has shown that the Prespes agreement can also serve as a model for resolving the issue of Kosovo. Serbia’s apparent lack of interest in the agreement and the downgrading of its value with comments of the type: “it’s not […]
Spiros Sideris A first reading of the results of the referendum in Macedonia shows that Zoan Zaev did not eventually convince his audience and lead citizens to the polls to vote in favour of the Euro-Atlantic course of the country. The nearly 37% of the voters who went to cast their votes at the referendum, in […]
Russia is playing an “impressions” game, channeling information to selected Greek and Russian media in an effort to deconstruct Greece’s foreign policy, which, Greek wise, from 2015 follows a new logic. When the government of Alexis Tsipras made new announcements on the matter and the “multidimensional and energetic foreign policy”, was heard, some may have […]
Moderate to small (crowd wise) were the protests that took place in 24 cities across Greece, participants of which are against the way negotiations on the name dispute with Macedonia go, opposing use of the term “Macedonia” in the compound name negotiated by the Greek leadership with the Macedonian one. For example, in Pella, which is […]
Hastily enough, Zoran Zaev’s proposal to renaming the Republic of Macedonia into Republika Illindenska Makedonija was dismissed by most Greek political parties. Above all, the rejection of the proposal in the heat of the moment primarily highlights the lack of seriousness of the political world and secondly to their little knowledge of history. The absolute […]
