Skopje

Skopje mayor Petre Shilegov has said Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) are showing a willingness to resolve their decades-old name dispute. In an interview with Greek Sunday paper Documento, Shilegov said: "When you want to solve...

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Thursday sent a stern triple message to Ankara, Skopje and Tirana. Speaking while welcoming his Georgian counterpart Georgy Margvelashvili at the Presidential mansion in Athens, Pavlopoulos referred to the Cyprus problem, noting that it was...

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said on Wednesday that there is no need for his country to change its constitution for the name to be decided. The statement came after the Balkan country decided to rename...

Media reports late on Tuesday claimed the government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) had renamed its main international airport and an important highway, removing references to Alexander the Great. The move comes as an apparent goodwill gesture...

The leader of Greece's main opposition party has said he "personally defended the right of the citizens to protest freely, peacefully and democratically, as provided in the constitution". New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said: "The expression of national pride by...

Six out of 10 respondents in FYROM said that they support a solution to the name issue with Greece, with the belief that this solution would pave the way for the country's accession into the European Union and NATO,...

(VMRO-BND members march with posters reading 'Misya-Tracia-Macedonia' and 'VMRO: Macedonia is Bulgarian'. Photo: VMRO-BND website) Bulgaria's nationalist VMRO-BND party has accused Athens of trying to "usurp" the name Macedonia from Skopje and claim its exclusive use. According to a Balkan Insight...

As negotiations between Greece and FYROM on the countries' naming dispute begin in New York, opponents of a compromise solution are planning a rally in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Sunday. The choice of Greece’s second biggest city...

World renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis expressed his opposition to any agreement with Skopje that would include the term 'Macedonia' in the compound name. Theodorakis, regarded as a guru for the Left, said that there should be no derogation from...

"More than 160 nations call this country "Macedonia", so let's behave and compromise on a composite name," Thessaloniki Mayor Yannis Boutaris told Greek Reporter on the naming issue of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Boutaris spoke exclusively to Greek...