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Kacin: Macedonia – Greece compromise should be carefully studied in the region

Without solving of all bilateral disputes, there will be no further enlargement in the region of Western Balkans, said Jelko Kacin in a statement for "European Western Balkans", who is the Permanent Representative of Slovenia to NATO and former Rapporteur for Serbia and Montenegro in the European Parliament. The decision of the Republic of North Macedonia to change its name...

Albania to ratify Macedonia’s NATO membership protocol tomorrow

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi will pay a working visit to the Republic of Albania today. The parliamentary press service informs that Xhaferi will attend the next plenary session of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania, where the Protocol for Membership of the Republic of Macedonia to NATO will be ratified. Yesterday, the State Council of the Republic of Slovenia ratified...

Constitutional changes come into force, from yesterday we are North Macedonia

Yesterday, the Prespa Agreement officially came into force and the implementation of its provisions began, with which Macedonia has changed its name to North Macedonia. The government also changed its name to the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia. The Government explained that the Prespa Agreement was published in the "Official Gazette" yesterday, and the constitutional amendments from 33. to 36. as...

Slovenia ratified Macedonia’s NATO accession protocol

At an extraordinary session, the Republic of Slovenia's National Assembly ratified Macedonia's accession protocol into NATO. With it, Slovenia became the second country member of the Alliance that ratified the NATO's Accession Protocol. During the voting process during the session, the President of the Macedonian Parliament, Talat Xhaferi addressed the attendees and expressed his gratitude in the name of...

Macedonia – NATO: 11-year journey, paid with blood in Parliament and a new name

"A historical date", "a century-old dream come true", "the greatest achievement since the independence of Macedonia" - these were only some of the comments about probably one of the three most important weeks and dates in Macedonia’s recent history. The first, of course, was the signing of the Prespa Agreement regarding the new name, the second was the vote...

Kosachev: Macedonia’s accession to NATO will not bring anything good

The Chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the Council of the Russian Federation, Konstantin Kosachev, has determined that Macedonia's signing of the Accession Protocol for NATO is perhaps a symbolic act, but is important for the Alliance, given the growing conflict between the Alliance and Moscow. "This is more of a symbolic step than a practical one, because...

Meeting of the Macedonian-Bulgarian Expert Committee scheduled for the 19th and the 20th of February

The mixed Macedonian-Bulgarian Expert Committee for educational issues that was formed in accordance with the Good Neighborly Agreement will have meetings again on the 19th and the 20th of February in Skopje. The representative of the Bulgarian part of the Committee, Angel Dimitrov, announced that he will talk about joint celebrations of persons and events from, as he said,...

Macedonia achieves its decades long NATO ambition and sings accession Protocol

After the signing of the Protocol for Macedonia's accession to NATO by permanent representatives of member states in Brussels, today Macedonia became part of NATO, however, not as a full member. Until the ratification of the Protocol by parliaments of all the member states, the country will participate in all meetings, but without the right to vote and will not be...

Macedonia was granted a seat at NATO with four more steps to be granted the right to vote

With today's signing of the accession protocol, Macedonia will get a seat at NATO. This means that the country will take part in all meetings and all of the Alliance's organs with its status of an "invited country," but it still won't be able to vote while the accession process isn't over. Macedonia's accession protocol towards the Washington Agreement will...

Macedonia is opening today its NATO page of its history

By signing the protocol for Macedonia's accession into NATO, Macedonia is opening its NATO page of its history. The ceremony will be taking place at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, and after the ceremony is over, this country will be allowed to participate in the work of all NATO's working groups, but without the right to vote. Со потпишувањето...

With footage of Gruevski’s deleted, Albanian news site claims it was “sent” to Macedonia

Writing about the request of the Macedonian prosecution about the security footage of the ex-Prime Minister Gruevski's escape through the Albanian border, Albanian news site "BalkanWeb" in an article titled "Albania sends footage of Gruevski's escape", claims that the footage has already been downloaded from the system and, in accordance with the request from the Macedonian authorities, shall be sent to Skopje. The...

Baily will leave Macedonia in March

The US Ambassador Jess Baily announced that he will be departing Skopje in March and that very soon he will go into retirement, after 34 years of service at the State Department. "It’s been my highest honor to work with this fantastic team, each and every day, over the past four years. Capie and I look forward to thanking friends...

Wikipedia hastily changes Macedonia to North Macedonia, but soon gears into reverse

After the ratification of the Prespa Agreement in the Parliament of Greece on Friday, the most famous online encyclopedia, "Wikipedia" in just two or three hours began rewriting some of its articles in English that use the name Macedonia. The word "Macedonia" was congruosly replaced with "North Macedonia". But soon after, by the interventions of some of the editors...

Juncker, Mogherini and Hahn welcome the ratification of Prespa Agreement

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...

“Obituaries” for Macedonia handed out in Thessaloniki

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...

Greek Parliament ratifies Prespa Agreement

The Greek Parliament this afternoon ratified the Prespa Agreement which was signed by Macedonia and Greece, with 153 MPs’ voting to end the name dispute which has lasted nearly three decades. All 300 MPs were asked the question of whether they are "for", or "against", or would “abstain" concerning the ratification of the Prespa Agreement. Of all the MPs, 153 were...

Whoever jumbled the things with the Law on languages?

The recent storm brewing from the verification of the constitutional changes in Parliament (11.01.2018), which changed the name of the country to "the Republic of North Macedonia", has shown no sign of stopping, and the public strongly resents the fact that the Law on Languages ​​and the Law on the Ratification of the Prespa Agreement, were published in the...

Osmani – Bregu: Macedonia has basically closed all issues with its neighbors

By implementing the Prespa Agreement, but also previously, through the historical Good neighborly Agreement with Bulgaria, at the moment, Macedonia has closed all important open issues with its neighbors and represents a leader of regional cooperation in the Balkans. This is the message of the Macedonian Vice Prime Minister Bujar Osmani to the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council,...

Elections again in Macedonia, this time presidential

In the Republic of Macedonia, in April, this year, the sixth presidential elections are set to be held. The presidential election, as envisaged by the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, should be announced 60 days before the end of the mandate of the current head of state. The incumbent President Gjorge Ivanov’s second five-year term expires on May...

New amendments to Constitution published in the “Official Gazette”

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,...