Tag: Prespa Agreement
Macedonia 11.02.24 | 23:13

Meurice announced that a European Union workgroup is set to address the provision in the Prespa Agreement regarding passports next week

The Belgian Ambassador to North Macedonia, Frédéric Meurice, announced that a European Union workgroup will convene next week to discuss the implementation of the Prespa Agreement provision. This provision mandates that the country’s passports reflect its new name, the Republic of North Macedonia,...
Macedonia 21.08.23 | 13:56

The personals documents will be valid after February 24 next year?

In no case, the citizens will be punished, nor their rights will be endangered, Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski said on Monday regarding the legal obligation for the citizens to change their personal documents until February next year. “We will make decisions based on current events, but...
Macedonia 16.08.23 | 11:37

According to the Prespa Agreement, the personal IDs must become “north” after the country starts the EU negotiations

Macedonia is not forced to complete the replacement of all its citizens’ personal identification documents by February next year, because the Prespa Agreement with Greece clearly stipulates that the personal identification documents with the old name “Republic of Macedonia” must be...
Macedonia 02.02.22 | 14:12

Constitutional Court rejects the Prespa Agreement request

At today’s session, the Constitutional Court rejected the request for protection of freedoms and rights submitted by Professor Tanja Karakamiseva in 2019, in which she explained that the Prespa Agreement violated her right to prohibition of discrimination and the right to freedom of thought and...
Macedonia 02.02.22 | 10:17

Constitutional Court to discuss Prespa Agreement

The Constitutional Court is waking up from hibernation for a long time. Although in reduced numbers today the constitutional judges will discuss an issue that concern us all, and that is the Prespa Agreement which changed our country’s constitutional name Republic of Macedonia. The request that...
Macedonia 14.10.21 | 23:20

Mickoski: No one can stop me from dreaming of removing the injustice caused by the Prespa Agreement

No one can stop me from dreaming of removing the injustice caused by the Prespa Agreement, said the leader of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, said in an interview with TV Alsat. What was the price paid by every citizen of Macedonia with this agreement? They were promised free health care,...
Macedonia 31.08.21 | 11:00

Greece’s Foreign Minister to check out the implementation of the Prespa Agreement in our country

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will pay a one-day official visit to the Republic of Macedonia today. During the stay and the meetings with the top leaders in the country, according to the announcement of the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dendias will discuss several bilateral, regional...
Macedonia 28.08.21 | 10:37

Kotlar: Professors who support Zaev in violating the laws do it out of personal interests

I want a census to be conducted and all of us in this country want it but that does not mean that it must be now and in the way it is planned now, professor Kotlar commented on Zaev’s statement that the census must be conducted in order to know whether we are a state or a nation. We need that statistical...
Macedonia 25.06.21 | 10:44

Greek opposition pressures government to ratify memoranda with Macedonia

The main opposition leftist Syriza party has called on the Greek government to quickly adopt three memoranda signed between Greece and Macedonia as part of the name-change deal (Prespa Agreement) following reports suggesting that Athens mulls further delaying the process, EURACTIV wrote on Friday. Greece...
World 09.06.21 | 09:02

US to blacklist anyone who opposes the Ohrid and Prespa Agreements

The White House has released an Executive Order of President Joseph Biden on “Blocking Property And Suspending Entry Into The United States Of Certain Persons Contributing To The Destabilizing Situation In The Western Balkans”, dated 8 June. No persons are named in the text released by the White...
Macedonia 01.03.21 | 15:50

Zaev: The Prespa Agreement is a law, MANU must change its name

Answering a reporter’s question on Monday regarding the refusal of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU) to change their name, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev stressed that the Prespa Agreement must be respected. The Prespa Agreement is a law. It was ratified in the Parliament and it is...
Macedonia 15.02.21 | 09:17

Not even the Prespa Agreement bans the use of “Macedonia”: Macedonians in Germany react

We call on the Macedonian government, instead of banning the use of the name “Macedonia”, to support the free expression of Macedonian citizens, and to further encourage the use of the name “Macedonia” because it is our centuries-old inherited historical name. Any ban is unacceptable...
Macedonia 08.01.21 | 13:04

Dimitrov: Prespa was possible because it did not touch the identity, Sofia goes into something it has no right to

The Prespa Agreement was possible because the Macedonian identity was not touched. Some of the issues raised by Sofia go into something that Sofia has no right to – the Macedonian identity, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov said in an interview with MIA. The countries in...
Macedonia 11.12.20 | 10:16

Is Article 7 of the Prespa Agreement clearer now?

The Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov advocated for Macedonia “as his own country” in the Prespa Agreement, said last night Zoran Zaev himself, revealing for the first time that someone from outside, or Bulgaria, interfered in the negotiations with Greece. Borisov negotiated with Tsipras...
Macedonia 17.11.20 | 13:48

There’s Prespa Agreement, but no negotiations: Zaev and Dimitrov prematurely renamed documents and institutions into “North”

Bulgaria’s veto on the start of Macedonia’s EU negotiations is largely related to the implementation of the agreement with Greece in the part with the opening of the chapters. At the moment when it is clear that there are no negotiations, and there will not be in the near future, Zaev and...
Macedonia 13.09.20 | 21:25

Dimitrov: The public will judge and history will tell what the Prespa Agreement was like

The public is yet to judge, and history will tell what the Prespa Agreement was like in terms of dignity and affirmation of the identity of the Macedonian people. We can debate opinions, but the fact is that this Agreement has given us NATO membership and the green light for the EU. Even those who claim...
Balkans 17.06.20 | 19:41

Tsipras on Prespa Agreement: Greece is on the right side of history

We showed once and for all that Balkan history needs no winners and losers. Respect and strong will for a common future of peace and development is all it takes, says SYRIZA leader and former Greek PM Alexis Tsipras on occasion of the second anniversary of the Prespa Agreement, MIA reports from Athens. We...
Macedonia 17.06.20 | 17:51

Hahn on Prespa Agreement: I’m proud to have contributed to this achievement

Former enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn says Macedonia two years after signing the Prespa Agreement is on a good way on its path towards the EU, MIA’s Brussels correspondent reports. Two years ago, the Prime Ministers of Greece and Macedonia, Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev, signed a truly historic...
Macedonia 06.03.20 | 17:51

Job ad in Lerin says they are seeking a secretary who speaks “Slavo-Skopje language”

A girl who speaks English and “Slavo-Skopje language”, reads a job advertisement for a secretary position which recently appeared in Lerin, Greece. The party of Macedonians in Greece, “Rainbow:, has already announced a reaction to the Greek authorities, but we expect a reaction from...
Macedonia 05.02.20 | 22:13

Mickoski: It is not democratic to forbid people to fight to correct the injustice done with the Prespa Agreement

It is not democratic and it is not in the spirit of values to forbid people to fight, to rectify the injustice that they think has been inflicted on them, VMRO-DPMNE’s leader said at Wednesday’s TV Telma “Top tema” show, after the question of the Prespa Agreement was raised. As...
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