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ND Slams SYRIZA MP Over Macedonia Name

Ioanna Gaitani
Ioanna Gaitani

The Coalition leader New Democracy Conservative party attacked its main opposition Coalition of the Radical left (SYRIZA) after it emerged that one of the left-wing party’s deputies had allegedly blamed Greece for the impasse in the lingering name dispute with the neighboring Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

Last month, SYRIZA MP Ioanna Gaitani reportedly told FYROM’s Nova Makedonija newspaper that “the interests of Greek capitalists” in the region are essentially to blame for the name issue. ND’s Political Secretary Manolis Kefaloyiannis criticized Gaitani’s comments as “historically ignorant and dangerous” and called SYRIZA’s leadership to take a stand and denounce it.
In a related development, Hungary’s Foreign Ministry said that it will from now on use the name Macedonia in bilateral contacts with Skopje. Greece has been trying for some two decades to take back the name Macedonia it gave away in allowing its northern neighbor to use the word in its temporary title but talks have gone nowhere with little prospect they will.

(Source: Kathimerini)

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