“I always refer to FYROM. It happens sometimes especially when you deal 24/7 with crises and jetlag that you make a mistake and I apologise for that because I always stick to the officially recognised name and I discussed that with the Greek authorities as well.”  – Feredica Mogherini New Europe

Albanians in FYROM are becoming increasingly frustrated with Gruevski’s government inability to fulfil the EU conditions. According to them the name issue still hampers the EU membership and not a single step has been made in connection to the political agreement signed on 1 March. They use as prime example FYROM’s government inability to establish a parliamentary ad-hoc commission for […]

HMG WILL CONTINUE TO ENGAGE WITH ATHENS AND SKOPJE ON “MACEDONIA” NAME/NATO ACCESSION ISSUE Passed to the Telegraph by WikiLeaks 9:06PM GMT 04 Feb 2011 Ref ID: 08LONDON1112 Date: 4/18/2008 14:00 Origin: Embassy London Classification: CONFIDENTIAL Destination: 08STATE40462 Header: VZCZCXYZ0000OO RUEHWEBDE RUEHLO #1112 1091400ZNY CCCCC ZZHO 181400Z APR 08FM AMEMBASSY LONDONTO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8305INFO RUEHZG/NATO EU COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEHSQ/AMEMBASSY SKOPJE […]

Με μεγάλο ενδιαφέρον διαβάσαμε το κείμενο του κ. Ηρακλείδη στο ιστολόγιο “Foreign Press”. Για το ζήτημα των Σκοπίων, ο κ. Ηρακλείδης γράφει: “Η προφανής μέση λύση … είναι «Βόρεια Μακεδονία», «Νέα Μακεδονία» ή «Μακεδονία» στα σλαβομακεδονικά, δηλαδή Μakedonija. Η τελευταία είναι, νομίζω, η καταλληλότερη…” Αν δεν μας απατά η μνήμη μας, το συνταγματικό όνομα της γειτονικής χώρας αυτή τη στιγμή […]

Παρασκευή, 08.05.09 Ο γενικός γραμματέας του ΝΑΤΟ, Γιαπ ντε Χούπ Σέφερ, μετά τις συναντήσεις που είχε το απόγευμα της Παρασκευής στα Σκόπια με τον απερχόμενο πρόεδρο της ΠΓΔΜ, Μπράνκο Τσερβένκοφσκι και τον πρωθυπουργό, Νίκολα Γκρούεφσκι, ανέφερε ότι η εκκρεμότητα της ονομασίας παραμένει εμπόδιο για την ένταξη της ΠΓΔΜ στο ΝΑΤΟ και ότι η Συμμαχία δεν εμπλέκεται στη διευθέτηση της εκκρεμότητας […]

NATO’s General Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, in a meeting with Branko Crvenkovski, warns about the possibility of a failure of referendum about country’s name, predicting a possibility of a security crisis.

FYROM’s Kanal5 investigates the latest proposals and views on the name dispute by Evangelos Kofos, an eminent Greek academic and scholar of Macedonian studies.

By Sinisa-Jakov Marusic 20 January 2009 FYROM looks to the inauguration of Barack Obama with some trepidation about a possible shift in the United States’ position on the name dispute with Greece, while Athens appears quietly confident that the new US president will be more sympathetic to its stance. Athens and Skopje have been locked in a diplomatic struggle over FYROM’s […]

By Markos Karavias and Antonios Tzanakopoulos December 29, 2008 Volume 12, Issue 26 Introduction On November 17, 2008, the ‘former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’ (FYR Macedonia) instituted proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), alleging that Greece’s objection to its application to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) breaches the 1995 Interim Accord between these two States.[1] This […]

TIRANA, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) — Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev on Monday urged FYROM to make a compromise to settle a long-running name dispute with Greece.     “It is necessary to reach a compromise on the name issue, especially when Greece is already a member of the EU and NATO,”  Stanishev said in his meeting with Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski.     Stanishev, who […]