Name settlement according to friendship treaty model, Ahmeti tells Kathimerini

The name issue to be closed according to the model of the friendship treaty with Bulgaria, with a consensus reached by the two governments, followed by a ratification in the assemblies of the two countries, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti proposes in Sunday’s interview with Greece’s newspaper Kathimerini. There is no better time than now to …

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Hahn: Zaev-Tsipras meeting is very good news

Davos – Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, welcomed Wednesday’s meeting between Prime Minister of Macedonia and Greece Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras, assessing it as very good news. The meeting shows courage, vision and statesmanship. Solving this long-standing issue will be good for the countries, the region and Europe, Hahn …

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EPP chief: ‘Window of opportunity’ to resolve the long-standing name dispute

The leader of the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) Joseph Daul hailed the “window of opportunity” to resolve a long-standing name dispute between Greece and Macedonia, saying he hopes for concrete results. “I hope that a mutually acceptable solution will be found and we welcome this window of opportunity that could lead to concrete results,” …

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Greece’s government to seek name solution regardless of its political price

The incumbent Greek administration will be seeking a solution to the name dispute regardless of the political price it has to pay, provided that the other party is also demonstrating preparedness to solve it, because it takes two to tango, Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Georgios Katrougalos told Greek MPs, MIA reported. He accused the …

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Mass protest in Thessaloniki against use of ‘Macedonia’ in name dispute with Skopje

Thousands of people, carrying banners with messages ‘Macedonia was, will be Greek’; ‘The name is our soul’, took Sunday to the streets Thessaloniki to ‘defend the name’, MIA reports. Hardline clerics, far-right leaders and Greek diaspora groups have called for the protest against the use of term ‘Macedonia’ in any solution to Athens-Skopje name dispute. …

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Greek PM Tsipras: If there is an opportunity for a solution, it would be a national stupidity not to make good use of it

Under the title ‘If there is an opportunity for a solution, it would be a national stupidity not to make good use of it’ Sunday’s edition of the Greek newspaper Ethnos conveys an interview of Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras related to Athens-Skopje name dispute, MIA reports from Athens. ‘The solution would mean a mutually …

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Greeks to rally against use of ‘Macedonia’ in name dispute with Skopje

‘Macedonia is Greece’ – reads a billboard hanged over a stage in downtown Thessaloniki where a long-announced protest against the use of term ‘Macedonia’ in any solution to Athens-Skopje name dispute is set to commence at 14:00h local time.  The police have tightened the security measures for the protest, as well as the counter-protest of …

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Greek media offer extensive reports on latest developments related to Athens-Skopje name dispute

Greek media keep offering extensive, detailed reports on the latest developments related to Athens-Skopje name dispute, MIA reports from the capital of Greece. The front pages of Sunday’s editions present analyses of the latest round of name negotiations in New York, upcoming meeting of the Macedonian, Greek Prime Ministers, Zoran Zaev and Alexisi Tsipras respectively, …

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Lavrov: Russia will recognise the name agreed between Athens and Skopje

Moscow, 15 January 2018 – The intensified Macedonia’s name talks is linked to the desire of the United States to bring this country into NATO, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday during his annual press conference in Moscow. Lavrov said that efforts have been in long-standing twilight sleep for number of years and US decided to …

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Kammenos proposes name referendum

Athens, 14 January 2018 – Panos Kammenos, the leader of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), has proposed holding a referendum on the name dispute, MIA reports from Athens. “The Greek people will have to decide on the unprecedented, in the history of man, [decision to] cede their history and civilization to another people,” Kammenos said in …

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Katrougalos: Name solution not ‘tool for irredentism’

Athens, 14 January 2018 – Georgios Katrougalos, Greece’s Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, has said the possible name solution should not be a tool for irredentism, MIA reports from Athens. “We are negotiating a name that will make a clear distinction between the historical Greek Macedonia and the country which capital is Skopje, a name that will …

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FMs Dimitrov, Kotzias expect for UN mediator to offer initial framework for name dispute settlement

Skopje/Thessaloniki 11 January 2018 – The Macedonian, Greek Foreign Ministers, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kotzias respectively, expect for UN mediator Matthew Nimetz to offer an initial framework that will make substantial progress in surpassing Skopje-Athens differences over the name. Dimitrov and Kotzias discussed Thursday in Thessaloniki on the methodology, approach of the two countries and the …

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Greece: Mini-ministerial fails to solve government coalition rift over name issue

‘A mini-ministerial meeting’, convened by Premier Alexis Tsipras in Athens, has ended after little over two hours with ministers Nikos Kotzias and Panos Kammenos retaining their well-known, firm positions, MIA reports from the Greek capital. Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias left the meeting to speak with members of the media giving optimistic statements. He said that …

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Conflict in Greece between the government and the opposition on the name issue

The conflict in Greece between the government and the opposition on the name issue is continuing. Greece’s Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, who is a leader of junior ruling coalition member ‘Independent Greeks’ (ANEL), reaffirmed Wednesday his opposition to a possibility for the name dispute solution to include the term ‘Macedonia’. In a press conference , …

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Greek orthodox church synod reacts to Bulgarian church decision

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, at a session held on Thursday, discussed the decision of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Church to accept the request of the ‘schismatic Church of Macedonia’ to assume the role of mother-church, reports Greek orthodox website romfea.gr. “The Sacred Holy Synod expresses its concern about the …

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