Macedonia

  European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said EU membership for more Balkan countries will be impossible until existing border disputes are resolved. Speaking in Strasbourg, Juncker told European lawmakers there "can be no further accession" until spats and divisions over...

Greece is alarmed at what Athens sees as a lack of preparation from Skopje ahead of striking a deal over the FYROM name dispute. "Which adjective do they want in front of the noun and describe it to their...

  Toronto Greeks joined the thousands in Athens who rallied on Sunday in protest against the use of the term ‘Macedonia’ in any settlement the Greek government pursues with FYROM to end the decades-long name dispute. The two countries, with mediation...

"The shift of Mr. Theodorakis to intolerant and politically extreme positions is a sad development," Greek government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said on Monday. Speaking to national broadcaster ERT, Tzanakopoulos criticized harshly the presence and speech of renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis...

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has described the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as "our brothers" and insisted Ankara would always stand by Skopje. FYROM media reported Erdogan's comments made at a conference of immigrants from Balkan countries to Turkey....

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...

Even before Sunday's huge rally against the use of the term 'Macedonia' by Greece's northern neighbor, the Athens government tried to vilify or ridicule the hundreds of thousands of participants. According to them, the people who expressed their disagreement with...

The Greek government has sought to downplay the significance of Sunday’s ‘Macedonia is Greece’ rally in Athens claiming only "several thousand" participated. A statement released from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ office, took a swipe at organizers and opposition politicians who...

The Greeks of London, Frankfurt and Zurich on Sunday joined their voices with those of the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Athens who rallied against the use of the word 'Macedonia' in the name of the Former Yugoslav...

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted angrily on Sunday to an EU commissioner’s repeated references to FYROM as ‘Macedonia’. Athens called on Johannes Hahn, responsible for EU enlargement to "respect international legality." In an extensive interview with German magazine Der...