Bulgaria has given a list of conditions to Skopje if they want to be able to join the European Union and not be vetoed by Sofia. Although the Macedonian name dispute was…
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Nikola Gruevski, the former Prime Minister of what is now North Macedonia, embarked on an ambitious project called “Skopje 2014” to forge the “national Macedonian consciousness” by appropriating and creating monuments of…
German state-owned media Deutsche Welle (DW) were recently in northern Greece and some days ago released a video called DW in Nivici: “We are Macedonians in the whole village.” The German media…
The Greek Foreign Ministry has congratulated North Macedonia for becoming the 30th member of NATO. “We congratulate the Republic of North Macedonia that joins NATO as the 30th member of our alliance.…
North Macedonia on Friday officially became the 30th member of the NATO military alliance. “North Macedonia is now part of the NATO family, a family of 30 nations and almost 1 billion…
According to the news wire service agency Agence France Presse (AFP) on Monday, EU member states agreed to open accession talks with North Macedonia and, conditionally, with Albania. Citing several diplomatic sources,…
Greece’s Prime Minister held an emergency meeting on Sunday at Maximos Mansion on the development of the spread of the coronavirus in Greece. The meeting was attended by State Minister Giorgos…
Police in North Macedonia have reported the discovery of 47 migrants in an abandoned truck in the southwest region of the Balkan country, near the borders of Bulgaria and Greece. According to…
Greece’s former Prime Minister, SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday called on Europe to commence accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania. Tsipras made the call during his address to French…
North Macedonian members of parliament on Tuesday unanimously ratified an agreement to make their country a member of the NATO military alliance. All 114 lawmakers present in the 120-seat parliament voted in…
The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement released last Friday, confirmed that a Greek government delegation met in Skopje with their North Macedonian counterparts to initiate talks for the establishment…
Greece fully supports Croatia’s entry to the Schengen area, the Eurozone and the OECD and for “strengthening regional cooperation and promoting the European perspective of our Western Balkan neighbours,” said Foreign Affairs…
North Macedonia is expected to go to the polls on 12 April following the resignation of the government of Zoran Zaev with a caretaker government to take over under the leadership of…
Greece’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias on Tuesday reiterated Greece’s support for the EU accession prospects of North Macedonia during a meeting with his counterpart Nikola Dimitrov in Skopje. The Minister’s made…
Greece’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias will visit North Macedonia today, Tuesday, accompanied by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Konstantinos Fragogiannis, to meet with the country’s state and political leadership. According…
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with his Bulgarian and North Macedonian counterparts on the sidelines of the 4th Thessaloniki Summit on Thursday. In his meeting with North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran…
Greece’s Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias on Tuesday confirmed that the government is closely monitoring North Macedonia’s adherence and application of the Prespes Agreement. SYRIZA spokesman Alexis Charitsis urged the government to “take…
Greece’s Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias on Thursday called for EU member states who do not share their burden of the migration crisis, to be punished perhaps with even sanctions. Dendias made the…
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Saturday called for a snap parliamentary election after the European Union declined to give his country a date to start talks on joining the bloc.…
The European Council summit on Friday adopted Greece’s position on managing the migration crisis after all EU leaders reached agreement. Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his satisfaction and reiterated that “following…