Tag: Грција

Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras, at a press conference projected a joint message that with the Prespa Agreement, both Greece and North Macedonia will benefit both the citizens and future generations, and that opponents of the agreement will in time, see all the benefits. They said the current political leadership is committed to building bridges and demolishing walls, that...

The road to overcoming the decades-long dispute between the two countries was not an easy one, and fake news was a powerful tool for enemies of the Prespa Agreement, said Minister for Information Society and Administration, Damjan Mancevski at the Greek-Macedonian conference "Fake News on the Prespa Agreement ", which is being held today in Athens. At the beginning of...

The previously announced visit by the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to Macedonia will occur on the 2nd of April, Tuesday, informs Greek media. it will be a first official visit by a Greek prime minister to this country. Tsipras will be leading a delegation consisting of members of his cabinet and representatives of the Greek business community. Last week,...

While Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece are actively working to build high-speed railways, Macedonia is fast asleep. In a several years, our country could encounter serious problems with the low speeds of the trains, taking into account the pace of development of the railway infrastructures in neighbouring countries. This year, Greece plans to complete the production of the high speed track...

EU's High Representative/Vice President for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini and Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn today confirmed the arrival of the notification by the Republic of North Macedonia about its new name and congratulated Skopje and Athens on the acchievement. "Today, the European Union has formally been notified by the Republic of North Macedonia of its new name,...

In a joint statement, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn welcomed the ratification of the Prespa Agreement in Greek Parliament. "We warmly welcome the next crucial step in the ratification of the Prespa agreement, taken with today's vote by the Hellenic Parliament. From the very beginning, the...

Today, a few opponents to the Prespa Agreement in Thessaloniki, in front of the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace, handed out "obituaries" to passers-by with the name "Macedonia" written on it, protesting and calling it a "betrayal on Greek Macedonia". "Today we bury Macedonia" says the text, and is signed by "Mother Greece, Macedonian children and Macedonians". At 2:30 pm today, Greek parliament is scheduled to vote...

Russian Federation's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, stated that Moscow isn't against Macedonia's new name but the legitimacy of the whole process behind it is suspicious, reports Sputnik news agency. -We aren't against the name that arose in the end. We are asking to what degree this process was legitimate and to what extent it was conditioned by the...

Amendments from 33 to 36, together with Constitutional Law on their proclamation, which were voted in with 81 votes, were adopted at the 75th session of Parliament, on Friday, and were published in the 6th issue of the "Official Gazette" this year, i.e. on January 12, 2019. With these amendments to the Constitution, after the Prespa Agreement comes into force,...

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department for Informing and Press Relations has called the passing of the new amendments of the Macedonian Constitution in order to change the country's name as "an artificial change of the country's name in order for an enforced entering of Skopje into NATO" and stated that the problem with the country's renaming should...

With 81 votes in favor and no votes against or withheld, this evening, MPs have cast their votes at Parliament i.e. the amendments from 33 to 35, which are Macedonia's obligation according to the Prespa Agreement that was signed on the 17th of June last year. Previously, the Alliance of the Albanians and BESA's MPs withdrew their amendments. According to Constitutional...

After the great storm in Greece that was caused by the statements issued at the Parliament by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev about the learning of the Macedonian language in Greece, about its use, about "Aegean Macedonia", according to Greek media, Athens will fight the battle on international grounds. Iefimerida from Athens writes that now that the government in Athens...

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, Matthew Palmer said in Sarajevo yesterday that Macedonia could join NATO by mid-2020 if it implemented the Prespa Agreement and therefore resolved the decades-long dispute with Greece. According to him, Macedonia could become the 30th NATO member "as early as 18 months". "It's a realistic goal," Palmer said. The same message...

The minutes that were seen by journalists of the Kathimerini newspaper from the leadership meetings in Macedonia regarding the negotiations with Greece before the name agreement was to be signed in June show that the political leaders have thought that the agreement would be easier for signing with the left-wing government in Greece, informs Meta's correspondent from Athens. The...

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras will have a TV address to the nation today on the occassion of the end of the country’s financial crisis. Tsipras symbolically chose Ithaca island in the Ionian Sea, the home of Odysseus, which he struggles to find in his well known aruduous 10-year journey after the Trojan War. With it Tsipras will mark the...

The unexpected development with the release of the two Greek  soldiers after five months’ imprisonment in Turkey, should not make the Greek government complacent, because the end of summer and the begining ofautumn bring a number of high profile foreign policy issues. The most notorious is the referendum in the Republic of Macedonia on the Prespa Agreement.  Its outcome will...

The Greek government has decided to expel two Russian diplomats and ban the entry of two others, accusing them of attempting to interfere in Greece's internal affairs, as well as undermining the Agreement regarding the name with Macedonia, reports the Greek daily “Kathimerini”. Diplomats have been charged with attempts to obtain and distribute information, as well as the bribing of...

It is quite certain that on 11th of July, Macedonia will receive an invitation for accession talks for the NATO Summit, which is expected to be relatively short - three to six months - a procedure which is identical to the last countries which became NATO members, i.e. Montenegro, Albania and Croatia, and then the Accession Protocol has to...

The president of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU), Taki Fiti, in his opening of the academy's annual assembly, appealed for finding a mutually acceptable solution to the name issue and encouraged the authorities of Macedonia and Greece to take responsibility and bravely face the present realities. He went on to say that a solution to a name...

The Macedonian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Dimitrov, will have a meeting this evening in Vienna with the Minister of Foreign Affairs if Greece, Nikos Kotsias, informs the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dimitrov and Kotsias will have a joint meeting with the UN mediator, Matthew Nimetz. Dimitrov and Kotsias will meet again on the 15th and the 16th of...