Posts tagged with "Macedonia"

Macedonian referendum turnout fails to reach threshold FRONT PAGE

Macedonian referendum turnout fails to reach threshold

October 1st, 2018 Macedonia's prime minister pledged on Sunday to press on with a vote in parliament to change the country's name to resolve a decades-old dispute with Greece, despite failing to secure the 50 percent turnout at a referendum required to make it valid. The proposed name change is part of an agreement reached in June by pro-Western Prime...
Macedonian leader announces referendum question over name change World

Macedonian leader announces referendum question over name change

July 19th, 2018 Macedonia's prime minister has announced the question his country's citizens will face in a referendum this autumn on a recent deal with Greece changing the country's name to North Macedonia. Zoran Zaev said after a meeting with political party leaders that the question will be: "Are you in favour of membership in the European Union...
Nato formally invites Macedonia to join alliance World

Nato formally invites Macedonia to join alliance

July 11th, 2018   By Humeyra Pamuk Nato leaders agreed on Wednesday to invite Macedonia to begin accession talks to join the Western alliance, extending its reach in the Balkans in defiance of Russia following a landmark accord with Greece over the ex-Yugoslav republic's name. Macedonia will become Nato's 30th member state, though its...
Greece, Macedonia ‘to sign name change accord June 17’ Greece

Greece, Macedonia ‘to sign name change accord June 17’

June 15th, 2018 Greece and Macedonia will sign an accord on Sunday to change the name of the former Yugoslav republic, the Greek government's press ministry said on Friday as the governments of both countries faced mounting opposition at home over the deal. The accord would be signed in the Prespes region, a lake district which borders Greece,...
Macedonia president says won't approve name deal with Greece Greece

Macedonia president says won't approve name deal with Greece

June 13th, 2018 Macedonia's president said on Wednesday he would not sign a landmark deal reached with Greece on changing his country's name, dashing hopes of a swift end to a diplomatic dispute that has blocked Skopje's bid to join the European Union and NATO. In Greece too, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced a barrage of criticism and the prospect...
Merkel sees Macedonia taking steps on path to EU Greece

Merkel sees Macedonia taking steps on path to EU

February 21st, 2018 Macedonia is making headway in its bid to join the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday, praising recent reforms by Skopje and the prospect of settling its chronic name dispute with Greece. Macedonia is among six Western Balkan nations seeking membership. The EU, though wary of admitting a region scarred...
What’s in a name? A hell of a lot if it's Macedonia CM Regular Columnist

What’s in a name? A hell of a lot if it's Macedonia

February 11th, 2018 By Alper Ali Riza WHAT’S in a name? Juliet Capulet asked rhetorically in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. If the name is Macedonia and you are Greek, only a country by another name would smell sweet. Most Greeks I know would not countenance use of the name Macedonia by another country. The clash is between geography and...
Greeks rally in Athens over Macedonia name row Greece

Greeks rally in Athens over Macedonia name row

February 4th, 2018 Hundreds of thousands of Greeks rallied outside parliament in Athens on Sunday to protest against the use of the term Macedonia in any settlement the government pursues with the ex-Yugoslav Republic to end a decades-old name row. The two countries have agreed to step up negotiations, mediated by the United Nations, this year to settle...
Threatening letter sent to Greek FM over talks on Macedonia's name Greece

Threatening letter sent to Greek FM over talks on Macedonia's name

February 2nd, 2018 Greece has launched an investigation after its foreign minister received a letter from unknown sources threatening him and his family over efforts to resolve a dispute over the name of Macedonia, the Greek civil protection minister said on Friday. The authors wrote that they had three bullets for Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, in the...
UN envoy, in Athens, says time to end Macedonia name dispute Greece

UN envoy, in Athens, says time to end Macedonia name dispute

January 30th, 2018 A UN special envoy urged Greece and Macedonia on Tuesday to seize on momentum in talks to resolve a name dispute straining relations for a quarter of a century, saying the two sides now appeared "energised" to reach an accord. Athens says Skopje's use of "Macedonia" as its name could imply a territorial claim over the northern Greek...
Reaching a delicate compromise over Macedonia Opinion

Reaching a delicate compromise over Macedonia

January 28th, 2018 With Athens and Skopje now seeking to finally solve their long-running dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav republic, Neophytos Loizides looks back at the creation of the uneasy truce that has existed since 1995   As the result of a US initiative on the Macedonian issue, Greece and its northern neighbour signed an...
Greeks rally against use of "Macedonia" in Skopje name dispute Greece

Greeks rally against use of "Macedonia" in Skopje name dispute

January 22nd, 2018 Hundreds of thousands of Greeks in the northern city of Thessaloniki rallied on Sunday to protest against the use of the name "Macedonia" in any solution to a row between Athens and Skopje over the name of the former Yugoslav republic. Greece says the name Macedonia implies a territorial claim over its own northern region of that...
Macedonia told to resolve Greece dispute to join Nato Europe

Macedonia told to resolve Greece dispute to join Nato

January 18th, 2018 Macedonia's must resolve a decades-long dispute over its name, implement judicial reform and build good relations with neighbouring countries to join Nato, the Western military alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. The country's efforts to join Nato and the European Union have been been blocked by Greece,...
UN mediator says 'positive momentum' in Macedonia name row Greece

UN mediator says 'positive momentum' in Macedonia name row

January 15th, 2018 A United Nations mediator said on Monday there was "positive momentum" towards settling a 27-year dispute between Athens and Skopje the ex-Yugoslav republic's name. The row over the name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Fyrom), as it is formally known, has held up its prospects of joining both the European Union and...
Macedonia, Greece agree to form working groups on name dispute Europe

Macedonia, Greece agree to form working groups on name dispute

January 12th, 2018 Macedonia and Greece have agreed to form working groups led by foreign ministers to hold talks on a solution to the 25-year dispute over the name of the ex-Yugoslav Republic, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov told Reuters on Friday. Success in resolving the issue would open Macedonia's path towards Nato and EU membership, which has...
Greece says it wants to settle Macedonia name dispute this year Greece

Greece says it wants to settle Macedonia name dispute this year

January 4th, 2018 Greece wants to settle a decades-old row this year over the name of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, its foreign minister said on Thursday - a move that could unblock the Balkan state's ambition of joining the European Union. Athens has blocked the ex-Yugoslav republic's attempts to join Nato and objects to its EU membership...
'Recognise new reality', Macedonia asks Greece Greece

'Recognise new reality', Macedonia asks Greece

August 31st, 2017 Macedonia called on Greece on Thursday to recognise the "new reality" in the country and support its bid to join the European Union and Nato, a move that would require overcoming the row over the country's name. Greece has vetoed the ex-Yugoslav republic's attempts to join the two bodies because of a decades-long dispute over the name...
Italian coach Ventura blames inexperience for Italy blackout Sport

Italian coach Ventura blames inexperience for Italy blackout

October 10th, 2016 Italy coach Giampiero Ventura blamed inexperience for a second-half blackout which left his team on the brink of a shock defeat to rank outsiders Macedonia in a World Cup qualifier on Sunday. Macedonia, trailing 1-0 at halftime, scored two goals in three minutes and had two clear chances to score a third shortly afterwards as Italy...
Earthquake hits Macedonia, no injuries or major damage reported (Update) World

Earthquake hits Macedonia, no injuries or major damage reported (Update)

September 11th, 2016 A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck close to Macedonia's capital Skopje on Sunday but there were no reports of injuries or major property damage. The quake took place at a depth of 10km (7 miles) at 1310 GMT, 2km northeast of Skopje, according to the U.S. Geological Service. Witnesses said windows shattered and some cracks had appeared...
Storm in Macedonia kills at least 17 (Update 2) World

Storm in Macedonia kills at least 17 (Update 2)

August 7th, 2016 By Kole Casule SKOPJE, Aug 7 (Reuters) - At least 17 people died in flash floods in the Macedonian capital Skopje during a storm on Saturday evening, Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Todorov said on Sunday, warning that the death toll could rise further. Torrential rains had swept away a section of the ring road around Skopje and some...
Macedonia and abstract expressionism Opinion

Macedonia and abstract expressionism

June 17th, 2016 ABSTRACT expressionism is no longer cutting-edge art in most places, but in one country it is enjoying a massive popular revival: Macedonia. The artists are at work day and night in the capital, Skopje, splattering public buildings and statues with every colour in the rainbow in a style clearly inspired by Jackson Pollock. The...
Greece starts moving migrants from squalid border camp (Update 2) World

Greece starts moving migrants from squalid border camp (Update 2)

May 24th, 2016 Greece sent in police and bulldozers on Tuesday to knock down tents and relocate hundreds of migrants who had been stranded for months in a squalid makeshift camp on the border with Macedonia. Several busloads of people, most of them families with children, left the sprawling expanse of tents at Idomeni to move to state-run centres...
Scuffles at Greek-Macedonian border, day after dozens injured (Updated) World

Scuffles at Greek-Macedonian border, day after dozens injured (Updated)

April 11th, 2016 Scuffles broke out between migrants and Greek police on Monday after dozens tried to push a train carriage along rail tracks leading to Macedonia. The minor trouble came a day after dozens of migrants and refugees were injured in clashes with Macedonian police which the Greek prime minister deplored as "a disgrace for European...
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