Painful truths about FYROM's european intergration are found in a today's column in Utrinski Vesnik. The writer rightly concluded that FYROM does not need Greece to block the country's European Integration, since she does it better all by herself.  This is confirmed by the stats shown by the former Deputy PM for European Affairs, Radmila Sekerinska. Sekerinska exposed FYROM's government by showing that half of the laws that were announced and ...

  WORLD PAN-MACEDONIAN ASSOCIATIONS Communication: Nina Gatzoulis Coordinator of the Committee of World Pan-Macedonian Associations To: UN Country Members Europarliamentarians   We are vehemently opposing the erection of Alexander the Great’s statue in the Skopje Square, in the capital of the FYROM. This act does not only show the usurpation of the Greek history by that country’s Slavs in the strongest terms, but ...

FYROM's Foreign Minister Milososki (left) with Greek PM Papandreou during an OSCE meeting in Athens in 2009. Photo by EPA/BGNES FYROM's Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki has sent a letter to his Greek counterpart Dimitris Droutsas pleading for Greece to lift its objections to FYROM's starting EU accession talks. The letter submitted by Milososki to Droutsas does not mention ...

Greece will not accept the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's (FYROM) entry into NATO or the European Union so long as there is no mutually acceptable name for that country, Deputy Foreign Minister Theodoros Kassimis reiterated on Thursday, and this time in Parliament.    Kassimis also added that EU funding to the neighbouring land-locked country was flowing ...

By Paul B. Adjemian, Montréal, 10 June 2010 Why has Turkey failed to convince the European Union (EU) to admit it as a full-fledged member? Simple, it's due to its typical dogmatic mentality of “I know”, “I am right”, “I want”, “I won’t” and, of course, “my way”. Turkey fails to see that membership in a family ...

Ankara Anatolia 2002 GMT 25 May 10 "SENIOR SPANISH DIPLOMAT SAYS TURKEY STILL HAS TO TAKE STEPS FOR EU" ISTANBUL (A.A) - The senior diplomat of Spain, holding the rotating presidency of the European Union (EU), in Turkey said on Tuesday that there was still progress Turkey had to make regarding Copenhagen criteria.  Spanish Ambassador to Turkey Joan ...

by Mark Weisbrot The agreement by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to provide up to $960 billion of support to the Continent's weaker economies, as well as to financial markets, has appeared to calm investors worldwide, for the moment. But this does not resolve the underlying problem, even in the short ...

The austerity measures forced on to the Greeks are not only unfair, they set a bad precedent for the rest of Europe by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Published on Friday, May 7, 2010 by The Guardian/UK On the day of the eurozone leaders' meeting in Brussels, it is essential that we look at what is really ...

Thursday, May 6, 2010   Future of the European Court of Human Rights and Bosnia and Herzegovina on the agenda of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers Strasbourg, 06.05.2010 –  The Ministers for Foreign Affairs or State Secretaries for European Affairs of the Council of Europe’s 47 member states will meet in Strasbourg on Tuesday 11 May. Micheline ...

Australian Macedonian Advisory Council       May 05, 2010   The ´Macedonian´ Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) (based in Toronto, Canada) and the Australian ´Macedonian´ Human Rights committee (AMHRC) (based in Melbourne, Australia) have apparently reiterated (April 29, 2010) their call for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to cease all negotiations with Greece over its name. They specifically ...