November 1, 2021
World
Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, submitted his resignation as leader of the country and as president of ruling ruling Social Democratic Party (SDSM) after his party suffered a crushing defeat in the second round of municipal elections held yesterday, Sunday. SDSM lost both in the Skopje metropolitan municipality …
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December 15, 2020
Greece, Politics
The Hessian Peace Prize 2020 has been awarded to the Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, and the former prime minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, for solving the name dispute, SYRIZA said in a press release on Tuesday. The decision was announced by Boris Rhein, President of the Landtag …
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September 16, 2020
Greece
Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev, had a working lunch with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday. The two leaders discussed bilateral relations with focus on the development of economic cooperation between Greece and North Macedonia as well as North Macedonia’s European perspective. Zaev reportedly committed to the need …
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February 17, 2019
Greece, Politics
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his North-Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev were awarded the Ewald-von-Kleist-Prize at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. They were honored with the Award for their contribution to peace and conflict management. For almost one minute the audience applauded the two statesmen who managed to solve …
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February 12, 2019
Greece, Politics
The Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras and his counterpart from North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev have been officially nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, state news agency amna.gr reports on Tuesday evening. Tsipras and Zaev were nominated by European Parliament groups for having managed to end a 26-year-old conflict with …
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January 26, 2019
Greece, Politics
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and North Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev have been nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize by the leader of the EU parliament Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group Udo Bullmann, of the Greens/European Free Alliance (EFA) Ska Keller and of the European United Left-Nordic Green …
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January 25, 2019
Greece, Politics
FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev congratulated Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after the successful ratification of the Prespes Agreement by the Palriament Friday afternoon. Zaev sent his wishes via his private account on Twitter. Congratulations my friend @tsipras_eu, together with our peoples we reached a historical victory. Long live the …
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October 20, 2018
Greece, Politics
The Parliament of FYROM approved the proposal to start the process to rename the country’s name into “North Macedonia.” The voting Friday midnight was just the first but important step on the way to NATO and European Union accession. However, the process is lengthy before FYROM can ratify the Prespes …
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October 2, 2018
Greece
A German newspaper has set the Greek political landscape on fire after it revealed that a close aide of leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis from conservative New Democracy had two secret meetings with FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. MEP Maria Spyraki and ND spokesperson reportedly met with Zaef in December 2017 and …
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October 1, 2018
Greece
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev are among the favorites to become nominees for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for the Prespes Agreement to end a 26-year-old Macedonia name dispute. “It is hard to say who is nominated and who is not nominated, because that …
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October 1, 2018
Greece
Turnout in referendum about the Prespes Agreement was far less than expectations and the required 50% to make it legally valid. Just 36.79% of registered voters in FYROM cast their votes with the vast majority to have turned their back to a deal that would change the name of the …
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September 22, 2018
Greece, Politics
“There is no other Macedonia but ours,” Prime Minister of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Zoran Zaev said in an interview to FYROM’s state agency MIA on Friday afternoon. “The northern part of Greece is Greece, the western part of Bulgaria is Bulgaria. This is our Macedonia and there will …
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September 3, 2018
Greece, Politics
For 10 years, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was struggling to get the name “North Macedonia” but also to reach an agreement with Greece that would grant them Macedonian language and identity. This is understood from a confidential document published by Wikileaks. The document has apparently compiled by then …
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September 3, 2018
Politics, World
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is going to visit capital of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Skopje on 8 September. Merkel’s visit coincides with the FYROM’s Independence Day. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was apparently surprised by the news and said that he hoped that Meriel would arrive on Saturday in …
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July 19, 2018
Greece, Politics
FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that there was no need for the country’s authorities to submit documents to Greece that want to begin investigations that it was a Greek businessman of Russian origin who was named as the financier for the protests of the fan group “Komiti” in “Macedonia.” …
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July 16, 2018
Greece, Politics
FYROM prime minister Zoran Zaev claimed that Greek pro-Russian businessmen pay for “violent protests” in his country with the aim to influence Referendum voters over the Macedonia agreement. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Zaev claimed further that the aim of these actions is to stop his country from joining …
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July 12, 2018
Greece, Politics
NATO has formally invited FYROM to begin membership talks on joining the North Atlantic alliance. The invitation was issued on July 11 after the NATO Summit meeting in Brussels of heads of states from the 29 members. The invitation was expected after FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Greek Prime …
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March 7, 2018
Greece, Politics
Prime Minister of FYROM, Zoran Zaev, proposed that Greece should open its Constitution so “we can see how Greece is taking care of Greeks outside Greece.” To Greece’s proposal for FYROM’s Constitutional change, Zaev made a counter-proposal with an international treaty instead of a bilateral agreement on the Macedonia name …
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February 28, 2018
Politics, World
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 …
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February 22, 2018
Editor, Greece, Politics
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 …
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