Tag: dendias
Macedonia 01.09.21 | 16:44

Greek opposition calls on the Government to exert more pressure on Macedonia

The Greek opposition SYRIZA party, which concluded the 2018 Prespa Treaty with Zoran Zaev, called out the New Democracy led Government for the level of its implementation. SYRIZA official Giorgos Katrougalos reacted after Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias came to Macedonia to inspect the implementation....

Macedonia 30.08.21 | 17:22

Greek Foreign Minister Dendias arrives in Macedonia tomorrow to inspect Zaev’s implementation of the Prespa Treaty

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will visit Macedonia tomorrow to inspect the level of implementation of the Prespa Treaty and the use of the imposed name “North Macedonia”. Greece was recently concerned after a defense cooperation treaty was signed between Macedonia and Turkey, and critics...

Macedonia 26.08.21 | 14:20

Greek Foreign Minister Dendias will come to Macedonia to review the implementation of the Prespa Treaty

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will visit Macedonia by the end of the month with the purpose of evaluating implementation of the Prespa Treaty and the imposed name change. After years of relative quiet from Greece, it’s evident that it demands more concessions from Zaev – such as the...

Macedonia 15.01.21 | 10:31

Greece demands that private individuals and institutions begin using the imposed name “North Macedonia”

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias used the visit by Macedonian Minister Bujar Osmani to remind him that Macedonia needs to implement additional portions of the 2018 Prespa treaty, such as mandatory use of the imposed name “North Macedonia” by private persons and companies. Dendias said...

Macedonia 03.12.20 | 10:42

Zaharieva and Dendias discussed the EU enlargement toward the Balkans

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva spoke with her Greek colleague Nikos Dendias about the enlargement of the EU toward the Balkans. The phone call comes at a time when Bulgaria is blocking Macedonia from opening EU accession talks, while Greece is one of the countries that is blocking Albania. Zaharieva...

Macedonia 16.09.19 | 18:07

Greece says it supports its neighbors joining the EU – if they follow the rules

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said that Greece supports the EU integration of Macedonia and Albania, but provided the two countries accomplish their obligations. Dendias met with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas who, coming from the social-democratic party SPD, wants to see the two SPD Balkan governments...

Macedonia 09.09.19 | 19:06

The Greek Foreign Minister wants Macedonians to refer to themselves as “citizens of North Macedonia”

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said that Greece will use Macedonia’s EU accession process to pressure Macedonians to begin identifying as “citizens of North Macedonia”. The right wing Government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis wants to limit the use of the adjective Macedonian, which the...