German Media: Identity issues once again block Macedonia’s EU path
The German media "Süddeutsche Zeitung" wrote that Macedonia will be able to start negotiations with the European Union only if Macedonia recognizes that its language is a dialect of Bulgarian, and its national heroes are ethnic Bulgarians. The country, which not so long ago changed its name to increase its chances of EU membership, now faces another major hurdle. The beginning of Macedonia’s accession negotiations with the EU will be blocked, said its neighboring Bulgaria, if the Government in Skopje does not change parts of its hist…
Yahoo: Britons should move to Macedonia - the cheapest country in Europe
Current analysis by Ocean Finance ranks Macedonia as the “cheapest” country on the continent Yahoo Finance UK reports a recent analysis from Ocean Finance. They analyze “the cheapest country in Europe” to which the British could move to save money. Undisputed at the top of the analysis: Macedonia. In addition to Macedonia, Albania (6th rank) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (9.) are from the Balkan region on the list of cheapest countries. On August 14, Yahoo Finance headlined its English-language edition: "Macedonia is the cheapest country in …
Greek MOFA secret funds financed Macedonian, Albanian media says Greek news portal
Nearly one million euros from the secret funds of the Greek Foreign Ministry has been used to finance media outlets in Macedonia and Albania and as financial support for Orthodox Christian churches, according to reports published by Greece’s iefimerida news portal. The text prompted a reaction from the PM’s office, MIA reports from Athens also citing reports of the Efimerida ton sindakton newspaper that the prosecution has ordered investigation into how and who leaked the confidential information. iefimerida writes that the inform…
Politika: Mickoski is a pantomimist and Ivanov a hero
Under the headline “Referendum Aivar”, the pro-government Serbian daily newspaper “Politika” announced on Tuesday that “instead of humbly admitting that the referendum failed, European, American and NATO officials are claiming victory, with even more intensified political passion.” “The hypocrisy of the Western ruling political elites and the attempt to rewrite the will of the citizens of Macedonia, who did not agree to become northern southerners, revitalized the results of the referendum that was laconically assessed as consultative…
Zaev for Euronews Greece: Macedonia doesn't need elections
Macedonia doesn't need to hold elections – unless absolutely necessary, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said in an interview with Euronews Greece, explaining that MPs were currently consulting with each other. As MIA's Athens correspondent reports, PM Zaev insisted the country would hold elections only after all options to reach a two-thirds majority in Parliament had been exhausted. He then called on all MPs to do their duty towards the country. "Macedonia doesn't need elections," Zaev said. "Macedonia is on …
Russian Embassy warns: Pro Zaev media publishes fake news in Macedonia
The Russian Embassy in Skopje has twitted and warned Macedonians not to trust the pro Zaev local media who has published fake reports on statements allegedly made by Lavrov in which he supports the agreement between Macedonia and Greece. Lavrov has never endorsed the agreement, in fact, the Russian foreign ministry has warned that any agreement between the two countries must be fully agreed by its people, likely referring to Macedonians and the fact the country is governed by an illegitimate Government who does not represent the peopl…
Macedonia is leading in the Balkans with Medical Cannabis Research and Production
NYSK Holdings is a pharmaceutical company implementing cutting-edge technology and well-established scientific methods to develop safe, effective, and targeted cannabis products. NYSK Holdings operates from a state-of-the-art GMP certified facility located in the Republic of Macedonia. The facility grows and extracts medical-grade cannabis products. Our team consists of agronomists, botanists, and experts in the cannabis industry. NYSK’s philosophy is to create top of the line, innovative, and effective THC- and CBD-based medications. …
New Europe: Zaev’s “Ilinden Gambit” melts down in Athens and Skopje
Ignoring opposition parties, Trump Administration ratchets up pressure for a solution Within 24 hours of the end of bilateral discussions on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Sofia late last week, a new potential name — the Republic of Ilinden Macedonia — proposed by Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in his close private sessions with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, leaked out of Skopje. By the weekend, the main opposition parties in both countries quickly rejected this new proposal as irredentist or otherwi…
Kanal 5: “Republic of Upper Macedonia” will be for all uses
According to TV Kanal 5 information, the final name agreement is expected to be reached in a month, by mid-June. Here’s how events are expected to develop chronologically. First, Tsipras-Zaev meetings are expected to confirm the principle agreement that is the result of the marathon negotiations last 4 months, rounded off Saturday in Sounio, as well as to give direction to Ministers Kotzias and Dimitrov to finalize the final elements. This was confirmed Monday by the Macedonian Prime Minister. If all goes according to plan, in the…
Survey: Seventy pct of Bulgarians support Macedonia's accession to EU
Bulgarians support the integration of the Western Balkan countries into the European Union and consider that their country has an interest the countries to become members of the European family, show the results of the survey conducted by Trend Research Center, commissioned by 24 Chasa newspaper. Sixty percent of the Bulgarians support the accession of the Western Balkan countries to the European Union. Only 16% have negative opinion while a quarter of respondents do not have an opinion or cannot give an assessment. Bulgarians giv…
TA NEA: Contract now, Completing in two years
Achieving an agreement now and gradually completing it in two years, are the two features of the script on a table published by the Greek weekly Ta Nea. - At the first reading, the most important element of this version of the agreement is the emergence of the intention of the neighbors to accept the full name (erga omnes) for the name that will be agreed (the names prevail in Upper Macedonia, Nova Makedonija), the newspaper writes and comments that the Macedonian side changes the attitude of using the constitutional name inside the c…
Greek media: Athens, Skopje heading to interim agreement
Greek media reports indicate that Athens and Skopje are heading rapidly toward a new interim agreement that will enshrine the new name of the northern neighbor – sources say Upper Macedonia – and give the country two years to change its constitution and establish use of the new name at home. ‘The UN Security Council and the European Union would be guarantors of the deal, which, if signed, will allow NATO to invite Skopje to join at its July summit and the EU to give FYROM the much-awaited date to start accession talks,’ Greek newspa…
UN Envoy Nimitz Has UNspecified 'Name' Talks, Admitted Saxo Bank Stake, Said UNaware of Greek Sub
By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 8 – The UN has had an envoy on the so-called "name issue" between Greece and Macedonia or FYROM for years: Matthew Nimitz. Inner City Press has previously reported on his conflict of interest, but got the chance on January 17 to ask him about it. Nimitz admitted his long time employer General Atlantic's stake in Saxo Bank but said he was unaware of its Greek subsidiary. Assuming arguendo that's the case, Inner City Press then asked the UN's lead spokesman Stephane Dujarr…
Financial Times: Fragile Balkans’ future depends on Macedonia deal
If the definition of progress is that a country no longer names its capital’s airport after a warrior king who died 2,300 years ago in Babylon, then there is surely hope for the Balkans — the source of many a modern European conflict. In February, Macedonia’s reformist leadership reversed the previous government’s bombastic nationalism and changed the name of Alexander the Great airport to Skopje International. The ice began to melt in one of post-Communist Europe’s most vexed disputes. On the highway into Skopje, capital of the forme…
Popular Macedonian journalist gets his website taken down
Milenko Nedelkovski, one of the most prominent Macedonian journalists has had all of his social media profiles blocked by the SDS’ Ministry of Interior led by Oliver Spasovski. According to the criminal junta currently acting as “Government” in Macedonia, Nedelkovski’s cardinal sin were not his frequent opinions where he opposes EU and NATO, but the truth bomb he delivered in an interview with Russian State TV “Rossiya 24” where he opined that the criminal junta is just an extension of the American Deep State through its CIA operative…
Sputnik: UN Sponsors Greece-Macedonia Meeting in Push to Resolve Name Dispute
The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia are slated to meet later this week under the auspices of the United Nations in a fresh attempt to resolve the so-called name dispute, which has been an obstacle to Macedonia’s efforts to join NATO and the European Union, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Monday, cited by Sputnik. "I want to flag to you a meeting that will take place in Vienna this Wednesday. Matthew Nimetz, the personal envoy of the secretary-general, will meet jointly with Nikos Kotzias, the minister o…
AFP: Macedonia - a decades-long quarrel over a name
The name chosen by the small European country of Macedonia at its independence 27 years ago has ever since been rejected by Greece, provoking an impassioned dispute, AFP says in its article on Athens-Skopje dispute, which also includes a chronology of events related to the issue. For Greece the name is part of its own cultural heritage, a source of pride as that of an ancient province that was the core of Alexander the Great's empire more than 2,000 years ago. The bitter row has stalled the efforts of the new nation to take it…
The New York Times: What’s in a Name? For Macedonia, the Key to Peace and Security
The New York Times Gevgelija From the time he was a high school student and made his first discovery — graves dating to the Iron Age and coins 3,000 years old — Emil Slamkov said he wanted to be an archaeologist. “For me, it is a chance to discover what the earth is hiding,” he said. “And then to try and find a way to bring it back to life and give meaning to what came before.” In the Balkans, however, giving meaning to the past can be a fraught business. In recent years, Mr. Slamkov, 52, has found his skills in demand a…
Canberra Times: How 91-year-old Blaga from Macedonia can teach us about migrants
I was about 10-year-old when I first met people who didn’t look like me. They were a wonderful Chinese/ Australian family who lived over the back fence in Stawell, Victoria. Their 1/4-acre block was a veritable market garden that they shared with all the neighbours including my family, Australian newspaper Canberra Times writes . To me they were just Aussies making their way in our country town. I’m full of admiration for our immigrants. “Didn’t we used to call them ‘New Australians’”? asks Louise. Indeed, we did, and i…
Greek media on yesterday's rally in Skopje
"We are Macedonia: Another Rally in Skopje," "No to Athens, say thousands in Skopje," " FYROM : Protests in Skopje against the name change," "New rally about the name Macedonia," and "Skopje protests: We are Macedonians" are only a few of the headlines ran by Greek online media outlets reporting on the rally that took place in Skopje on Sunday. The brief articles include photos, but mostly quote Macedonian media and news agencies such as Reuters. They are unsupported by further analys…
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