The President of the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Macedonian Associations has filed a lawsuit against Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias, for treason over the Macedonia name issue. The lawsuit has been filed as  Greece and FYROM seem to be very close to an agreement based on component name that includes the term …

Germany has urged Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Monday to solve all the remaining issues standing in the way of an agreement to settle a decades-old dispute regarding the Macedonia name issue. In a statement issued a day before Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias meets …

Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias, told media on Monday, that the mission of the foreign ministers of Greece and FYROM on Macedonia name issue has been accomplished. “Now it is time for the prime ministers of the two countries,” he said adding “today and possibly also tomorrow negotiations at experts …

Pan-Macedonian organizations prepare new rallies as Greece and FYROM keep struggling for a solution on the name issue.  Talks between Greece and FYROM “have intensified considerably” and will continue when Foreign Ministers Nikos Kotzias and Nikola Dimitrov are in Brussels, UN Special Envoy for the name issue Matthew Nimetz said …

Tsipras’ junior coalition government partner, Panos Kammenos, has distanced himself from the negotiations about the Macedonia name issue and said that his party Independent Greeks (ANEL) will not accept the term “Macedonia” in FYROM’s new name. Speaking to private Alpha 989 FM on Tuesday morning, ANEL leader and Greece’s Defense …

Us Vice President Mike Pence has intervened in the Macedonia name negotiations and called Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, on Saturday. Pence urged Tsipras for a solution to the Macedonia name dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, taking into consideration the time pressure. A statement released by the …

The majority of media in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo have been reporting in the last hours, that Athens and Skopje have allegedly reached an agreement on the Macedonia name issue. However, they claim that the two sides have agreed on a new name others that the …

“We have not yet in position to talk about an agreement,” Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in a press conference after a meeting with his FYROM counter part, Zoran Zaef, on the Macedonia name issue,  in Sofia on Thursday. “I think we have traveled a lot of the distance, …

Brussels and the European Commission reportedly urge the Greek government to have any agreement between Greece and FYROM on the Macedonia name dispute will pass with not just a parliamentary majority of 150+1 but with a enhanced majority of 180 votes. According to an exclusive report of SYRIZA-affiliated daily Avgi, …

A fresh round of Macedonia talks concluded in Vienna last Friday afternoon, where the foreign ministers of Greece, Nikos Kotzias, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Nikola Dimitrov, had a meeting with the Special Envoy of United Nations, Matthew Nimetz. Although all people parties involved expressed optimism in statements …

Defense Minister and Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader, Panos Kammenos, reiterated his opposition to the use of the term “Macedonia” and any derivative in the name agreed for FYROM. In an interview with private ANT1 TV on Tuesday, Kammenos pointed out that in order to change FYROM’s constitution, elections must be …

In his first historical visit to FYROM’s capital Skopje after the removal of Alexander the Great names and statues, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said he believes in a “honorable compromise” from which both countries will win. “You cannot get everything you have in your mind,” he said, following lengthy …

After the Pan-Macedonian organizations also the Cretan “Liberation Movement” came out of its deep hole and sent a threat letter to a member of the Greek Palriament over the Macedonia dispute. MP from center-left To Potami, Spyros Dannelis, revealed that the received an e-mail with threatening content. “We warn you …

Pan-Macedonian organizations from Greece and abroad are threatening Greek lawmakers with death “if they accept the term Macedonia in the new name of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). On Monday, Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis revealed that lawmakers have been receiving death threats. According to efsyn, Pan-Macedonian Associations from Giannitsa …

Negotiations between Greece and FYROM may have slowed down, but Skopje continues to challenge Athens with provocative statements. Just days before Greek foreign minister Nikos Kotzias visits FYROM, his counterpart, Nikola Dimitrov called on “sharing the cultural heritage of Macedonia.” “We are two countries of 21st century Europe who share …

FYROM NGO are claiming that Greece has committed human rights violations, crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide” against its Macedonian minority since 1913. In a joint statement of several FYROM NGOs that oppose negotiations on Macedonia name issue  to Turkey’s state Anadolu News Agency , “slammed Greece and global …

FYROM  is looking at four options to settle a decades-long dispute with Greece over its name, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. FYROM hopes the issue can be resolved in time for an EU meeting in June and a NATO summit in July, and is …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed FYROM’s Zoran Zaev as “the Macedonian” Prime Minister. Did she think that Zaev’s full name was Zaevopoulos, that Greece was a federal republic and Macedonia a federal state in Northern Greece? No. She did it on purpose, she welcomed Zaev as “Macedonia Prime Minister” at …

Who cares what the enemies of Greece say, claim, want or are up to? We live in a country full of creative and innovative people always with a good idea to defend our rights. A young baker in Giannista in West Macedonia made a 2-meter long Clean Monday bread, Lagana, …

FYROM President Gjorge Ivanov expressed his gratitude to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Turkey’s support regarding the name dispute with Greece during his official visit to Ankara.  In the joint press conference that followed their meeting, Erdogan stressed that with mutual will both sides could resolve the name dispute …