While Macedonia lives in national euphoria, with all its accompanying elements, such as praise and condemnation of the name agreement, the impression that the head of state Gjorge Ivanov is performing his duty on the other side of history is unavoidable. As the highest representatives of the governments of Macedonia and Greece, as well as …
Submission of a petition to the Constitutional Court for assessing the name dispute with Greece, and boycotting the referendum in order to fail due to the unfulfilled census are the next two steps that Levica plans to make in the upcoming period. This movement, which grew into a party, profiled itself as one of the …
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 …
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Zaev finally returned home. He came back riding a white horse. He returned with a job done. He returned with a historic agreement reached. He returned with open access to Macedonia’s membership in NATO and the EU. His remarkable optimism has won once again. In the difficult battle that led him to resolve the decades-long …
A session of the Parliament’s committee on European affairs is scheduled to start at 15:00h in which MPs will be reviewing the draft-law on ratification of the Macedonia-Greece name agreement. The legislative committee’s session is slated for 15:15h. The session shouldn’t take long having in mind that the deal should be only reviewed before the …
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Political analyst Daniel Serwer believes that agreement that Macedonia signed with Greece is not only a major step forward for both countries, but also for entire Balkans, MIA correspondent from Washington reports. Serwer told MIA that if the agreement is passed in both parliaments and if passed on a referendum in Macedonia “it will improve …
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Macedonia and Greece had a direct meeting with history at lake Prespa. Prime ministers Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev declared the signing of the agreement as historic, not only in the relations between the two countries, but also much wider in the Balkans and in Europe. No matter how euphoric and overstressing this statement is, …
The UK Government has unreservedly welcomed the agreement between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia on the long-standing issue of the latter’s name. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson used his Twitter account to declare his satisfaction at the news of the deal: “Fantastic news that PMs Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras have reached an agreement on the …
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres writes on Twitter that he welcomes the historic agreement signed between Macedonia and Greece. “I warmly commend Prime Ministers Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev for their role in the historic Agreement signed in Prespa on Sunday. I encourage their Governments to maintain their strong commitment to ratification and implementation. The UN …
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Seventeen people, including ten policemen, were injured during last night’s violent protest in front of Parliament in Skopje. 26 people were arrested after pushing down the protective fence outside the Parliament, throwing rocks and pyrotechnics at the building and at the riot police and after trying to storm the Parliament, the Interior Ministry (MoI) said …
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Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Koco Angjusev said Monday that Hellenic Petroleum initiates and the government will gladly accept to meet and to negotiate about the gas pipeline. Angjusev told reporters at the press briefing in the government that negotiations have not started, but will start and the public will be informed about it. “Hellenic …
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Authorities in Belgrade have accused Pristina today of avoiding dialogue for the normalization of relations between the two countries. The deputy head of the so called Office for Kosovo at the Serb government, Dusan Kozarev, has declared today that Belgrade has implemented all the agreements reached so far in Brussels, while according to him, authorities …
The accord about the issue of the name, which was signed yesterday in Prespa by the delegations of Macedonia and Greece, has been approved by the government in Skopje today. After the approval by the government, the bill on the ratification of the agreement regarding the name will be sent to parliament. The agreement may …
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According to the legend, Alexander the Great arrived at Gordium to have his army rested. In the palace there was an anathema to Jupiter a chariot from Gordios, father of Midas of Phrygia. The chariot yoke was tied with a skull bark, and the knot was so entangled that it was impossible to see how it …
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From a million protesters, we’ve gone down to 100,000, and now to 4,000. Greeks have broken stereotypes, Foreign Minister of Greece Nikos Kotzias said Sunday, commenting yesterday’s protests near Prespa. Immediately after the name deal signing, FM Kotzias met with the Regional Governor of Western Macedonia Theodoros Karipidis. Karipidis gave Kotzias a resolution from the …
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Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said that after the agreement reached on the name North Macedonia, the EU General Affairs Council could give the green light for starting accession negotiations with Macedonia at the beginning of next week. “The topic of EU enlargement will be discussed at Council meeting. If the …
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Last night in Skopje there was clash between police and protesters who attacked the police cordon in front of the Republican Assembly. Police used tear gas and shock-bombs to disperse the group that removed the police barricades and began to attack the police. After the crowd’s protest was over, some scattered groups collided with police …
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When he took over the mediation between Macedonia and Greece about two decades ago, Matthew Nimetz probably did not expect that he would end his efforts to overcome the name dispute in almost the end of the eighth decade of his life, and that only then he could finally retire, in the true sense of …
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After the signing of the agreement regarding the name dispute in Psaderas, the largest opposition party in Macedonia, VMRO-DPMNE held a protest in Manastir to oppose “the agreement about the name reached between Zaev and Tsipras”. The protest was led by the chairman of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, who has reiterated the fact that the agreement …
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Today is a historic day for the two country, but it is also a historic day for the European Union and the Balkans in general, Federica Mogherini told reporters upon arriving in the village of Otesevo in Macedonia after the signing of the name deal. “Many people were sceptical about the possibility of reaching a …
