Tag: Преспански договор

While reporting on Saturday and yesterday about the vote in Macedonian Parliament, where four constitutional amendments were adopted, which, among other things, Macedonian MPs accepted the change of the name of the Republic of Macedonia, most of the media and some news agencies in neighboring Bulgaria and Serbia, wrote headlines and in part of the texts that Macedonia was...

We have new perspectives and 2019 shall be a year of progress, integration, economic growth and more funds for each citizen. With the adoption of the new amendents to the Constitution, Macedonia has opened a new and bright page of the future with stability, security, and economic growth, stated SDSM. "Macedonia will become NATO's 30th country member and during this...

Moments before the final adoption of the constitutional changes is expected, and during tense protests in front of Parliament, Minister of Internal Affairs Oliver Spasovski today from Radovish would not directly answer the question whether an escalation of events is possible, as on April 27, 2017, when the protesters stormed Parliament and several MPs and journalists were brutally beaten. "The...

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...

NATO urges the parliaments of Macedonia and Greece to fulfill all their obligations regarding the Prespa Agreement that resolves the name dispute. That was the main stipulation of the letter that the NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg reportedly sent to both Skopje and Athens, noting that the Alliance expects as fast as possible process. "NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg reportedly sent a...

Българският вицепремиер и министър на отбраната Красимир Каракачанов и претседател на ВМРО-БНД, както и българският евродепутат Андрей Ковачев од ГЕРБ, (двамата част от българската десница),  уикендът излязоха с остри квалификации за македонската национална идентичност. Втория, въпреки, че не ги повтори заканите на Каракачанов, че България може да блокира приемането на Македония в ЕС и НАТО, ако продължава  да говори...

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...

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Matthew Palmer, will today visit Macedonia. Palmer will meet with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, as well as representatives from various political parties. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that at the meeting with Dimitrov, they will discuss the Euro-Atlantic perspectives of the Republic of Macedonia, as...

More than 40 university professors, intellectuals, philosophers and students expressed their support for the Prespa Accord between Macedonia and Greece for resolving the name dispute, assessing it as a breakdown and the best solution to resolve the 27-year long dispute between the two countries. In a letter to the British newspaper The Guardian, signatories who are from some of the...