I hope that Macedonian and Greek governments will use the remaining time of Spain’s mandate as the holder of the EU’s rotating presidency to solve name issue and finally get a green light by EU member states for start of accession talks with EU, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said.
Read More »Macedonian PM reaffirms Macedonia’s commitment to overcome hurdle to NATO
Macedonia is fully committed to reaching a mutually acceptable solution to Greece-imposed name issue, which impedes Macedonia’s NATO membership, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said.
Read More »Davutoglu reaffirms Turkey’s support to Macedonia’s EU bid
MACEDONIA Visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu reiterated his country’s support to Macedonia’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic community as well as to good relations between Macedonia and Turkey. Davutoglu held talks with his Macedonian counterpart Antonio Milososki on Friday. The two reaffirmed the good political, economic and cultural ties between …
Read More »No Progress In Greece-Macedonia Talks
There were no breakthroughs in the Athens-Skopje name gridlock after the prime ministers of the two countries, Nikola Gruevski and George Papandreou, met on Thursday in Brussels. “The positions of Macedonia and Greece on the name issue in general remain far apart even after today’s meeting,” Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Antonio …
Read More »Gruevski-Papandreou meeting ends without comments for the press
The meeting between Macedonian and Greek prime ministers has ended without comments for the press. As the Macedonian government said earlier the two ministers discussed the name
Read More »Macedonian PM to meet senior EU officials in Brussels
Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is slated to meet senior EU officials as well as Greek PM George Papandreou during his 2-day visit to Brussels. PM Gruevski is scheduled to meet President of EU Council Herman Van Rompuy, President of European Parliament
Read More »SEA: There are no new benchmarks for Macedonia from EU
It is false to believe that European Union set additional benchmarks for Macedonia, Secretariat for European Affairs (SEA) informed. SEA denied any accusations made by former Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Ivica
Read More »Macedonia- Greece meeting announced
The prime ministers of neighbouring Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Gruevski and George Papandreou, respectively, agreed to meet this Thursday on the sidelines of the EU summit in Brussels to discuss their countries’ ongoing “name” spat.
Read More »Western Balkan leaders embrace EU perspective
A summit of Western Balkan leaders near Ljubljana ended on Saturday (March 20th) by adopting a joint statement on their countries’ commitment to the European perspective. The forum was marred by the absence of Serbian President Boris Tadic who boycotted because Kosovo was not represented according to the UN Security …
Read More »Skopje Suggests Croatia-Slovenia Model
The “name” row between Macedonia and Greece could be settled using the recent Croatia-Slovenia model, namely international arbitration, Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki said Thursday in Paris.
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