21.07.2021
Radmila Sekerinska: ‘The Prespa Agreement is a child born in a complicated marriage’
We have just started issuing new passports with the name “North Macedonia” - way ahead of schedule, sooner than the Prespa Agreement has foreseen.
Prespa Agreement
01.07.2021
Tsipras calls for full implementation of Prespa Agreement by Skopje, Athens
Tsipras was attending the “Prespa Forum Dialogue”, where he sought to burnish his leadership profile with messages to Balkan countries such as Bulgaria and Kosovo and to the EU.
24.05.2019
Mitsotakis wraps up campaign, slams Tsipras on Prespa Accord, handouts, security, taxes
Mitsotakis’ choice of Thessaloniki for his final outdoors campaign speech was linked to his staunch opposition to the Greece-North Macedonia Prespa Agreement, which is very unpopular there.
02.04.2019
International press euphoria over Tsipras’ ‘historic’ visit to North Macedonia
Zaev said he expected fresh Greek investments to exceed €500m. 'The Republic of North Macedonia will have huge economic benefits from the deal that I believe will be seen in every area of the economy,' Zaev said.
28.03.2019
Zaev: We changed name to get recognition of ‘Macedonian identity’
'The Macedonian language is the language of the Macedonians in Australia, America, Canada, Switzerland, and Germany, and no one disputes that,' Zaev declared.
19.03.2019
North Macedonia’s Ambassador at EU meeting calls country ‘Macedonia’, ignoring new name
'Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is going to visit Macedonia, and it is the first visit of a Greek prime minister to our country,' said Ambassador Rusi Popovska in the presence of members of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations.
26.02.2019
BBC, Sputnik reports on ‘Macedonian’ minority in Greece stir outrage
Critics say the Prespa Agreement leaves plenty of room for misinterpretation and exploitation by forces which wish to stir problems and push for the recognition of a “Macedonian minority in Greece”.
18.02.2019
Kotzias picks up gauntlet, sues Kammenos for slander
Kotzias was the architect of the Prespa Agreement and Kammenos and his Independent Greeks party (then the junior coalition partner) vehemently opposed it.
07.02.2019
Kammenos on the verge of losing parliamentary group
'The Independent Greeks’ parliamentary group convened and we unanimously demanded that Mr. Papachristopoulos surrender his seat to the party as he had promised.'
31.01.2019
Zaev avoids reference to his country as North Macedonia
'With the Prespa Agreement, Greece accepted the right of self-identification and that no one any longer can deny our right to be Macedonians who speak the Macedonian language in this land,' Zaev said
29.01.2019
Mitsotakis: Skopje’s EU path leverage for proper enforcement of Prespa Accord
'International law makes it [the accord] difficult to change as it supersedes all domestic law. Any violation can bring international isolation and an International Court of Justice case against our country,' said New Democracy's leader.
28.01.2019
Minimum wage rises to 650 euros monthly, Tsipras defends Prespes
The hike comes into effect in February, and 24 benefits linked to the minimum wage will also increase by extension.
28.01.2019
Mikis Theodorakis lambastes Prespa Agreement, Nato in Ta Nea
Naturally, this is a detail of the bigger map of Nato’s overall strategy with its known aggressive aims and with the main target in this period being Russia.
27.01.2019
Editorial: Choices
This chasm between the country’s name on the one hand and its ethnicity and language on the other leaves a bitter taste for almost all Greek citizens, as was evidenced in the recent rallies and opinion polls.
25.01.2019
Editorial: Ink
The agreement recognises that that country is inhabited by Macedonians and not North Macedonians and that they speak Macedonian and not a South Slavic language.
22.01.2019
In battle against Prespa Agreement, New Democracy avoids no confidence motion
Top New Democracy cadres have decided against tabling a no confidence motion against the government over its handling of the Prespa Agreement...
22.01.2019
Editorial: Mistake
Within the next 30 days Greece’s creditors or “institutions”, which are currently in Athens to conduct an evaluation, expect the government to have met 16 prior commitments.
21.01.2019
To Potami party sinks under weight of Prespa agreement
To Potami MP Spiros Lycoudis today resigned his post as deputy parliament speaker, even as the party lost it status as a...
