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Macedonia 25.06.24 | 11:12

Tsipras asks European countries to warn Macedonia about consequences if it violates the Prespa Treaty

Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras who, along with Zoran Zaev, signed the Prespa Treaty, warned Macedonia of consequences if it doesn’t uphold the imposed treaty. Speaking at a Council of Europe event on the Balkans, Tsipras called on the other European countries to counsel Macedonia on...
Macedonia 20.06.24 | 00:08

Tsipras brags that Greece caught the last train to force Macedonia to change its name

Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsiphras, who signed the Prespa Treaty with Zoran Zaev, gave a shocking revelation into the Greek thinking at the time. According to Tsipras, international pressure was about to get so strong to bring Macedonia into NATO, presumably especially from the US, that in a...
Macedonia 02.07.23 | 10:58

Zaev praises Tsipras after disastrous elections

Zoran Zaev praised the former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for resignation as leader of the SYRIZA party. In 2018 Zaev teamed up with Tsipras to impose the Prespa Treaty on the Macedonians – which led to forcible renaming of the country and redefiinng of the Macedonian history and identity,...
Macedonia 14.04.22 | 22:32

Zaev praised by Tsipras at the SYRIZA party congress

Zoran Zaev was warmly welcomed at the SYRIZA congress in Athens today. Zaev was praised by SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras for the Prespa Treaty, with which a humiliating name and identity change was imposed on Macedonia. When nobody believed in us, when all were skeptics, Zaev and I were visionaries and...
Macedonia 02.07.21 | 09:51

Tsipras tells Zaev to rename the Football Federation of Macedonia and to start rewriting history books

Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called on Zoran Zaev to fully implement their Prespa Treaty. Tsipras is in Ohrid for the Prespa Forum Dialogue, and was warmly welcomed by Zaev, who praised their “friendship and vision”. But Tsipras made a point to criticize Zaev for the latest...
Macedonia 07.07.20 | 19:23

Tsipras makes a lyrical endorsement of Zaev but to many it sounds like he was mocking Macedonia

Former Greek Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras sent a video message endorsing Zoran Zaev and his SDSM party at the coming elections. Tsipras praised Zaev for signing the Prespa treaty, which imposed a new name on Macedonia after decades of pressure from Greece, and also began a process of redefining the Macedonian...
Macedonia 25.10.19 | 18:48

Mitsotakis is reportedly looking into adopting “Makedonia” as a brand name for companies from northern Greece

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is reportedly looking into a proposal to have Macedonian products labeled with “Macedonia” while products from northern Greece, or Aegean Macedonia, labelled “Makedonia”. Mitsotakis, who won the elections to a large extent owing to his...
Macedonia 21.10.19 | 12:42

Tsipras mocks Mitsotakis over his policy on Macedonia

Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that his successor Kyriakos Mitsotakis is secretly hoping that Zoran Zaev loses the general elections in Macedonia, and that a win for the conservative VMRO-DPMNE party will undermine the Prespa treaty. Tsipras, who lost the elections earlier this year...
Macedonia 30.09.19 | 22:24

Meeting between Zaev and Tsipras

Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is in Macedonia again, for a meeting with Zoran Zaev and an Economist conference. Zaev and Tsipras met in the Government building this afternoon, and discussed the developments following the Prespa treaty which they imposed on their countries. The solution achieved...
Macedonia 24.09.19 | 22:28

Tsipras will visit Macedonia for the second time this year

The former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit Macedonia in October, for an Economist event that will also include other former officials involved in imposing the name change on Macedonia. The conference will include the former US Assistant Secretary of State Wess Mitchell, former European...
Macedonia 15.09.19 | 12:12

Tsipras mocks Mitsotakis for his position on the Prespa treaty

Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras mocked his successor Kyriakos Mitsotakis for not moving to cancel the Prespa treaty after assuming power. Tsipras reminded the public how the conservatives led by Mitsotakis protested against the treaty and attacked member of Parliament from his leftist SYRIZA...
Macedonia 21.07.19 | 12:50

Tsipras taunts Mitsotakis for not canceling the Prespa treaty

Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras taunted Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for apparently accepting the Prespa treaty which he criticized while he was in the opposition. Mitsotakis said that he opposes the treaty Tsipras signed with Zoran Zaev, but now in office he is content simply to push for...
Balkans 07.07.19 | 22:05

Tsipras calls Mitsotakis to concede defeat

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras conceded defeat in the early general elections held today, in which the opposition conservative New Democracy party won a convincing victory. Projections show that New Democracy will have at least 155 seats in Parliament, giving it the majority needed to form the next...
Balkans 07.07.19 | 10:54

Greeks go to the polls in election expect to reflect on the Prespa treaty

Greeks go to the polls today in the early general elections which are widely expected to be a rebuke of the ruling far left SYRIZA party and to bring the conservative New Democracy back in power. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras suffered a drubbing at the recent municipal and European Parliament elections,...
Macedonia 02.07.19 | 12:18

Leaked Greek document reveals just how far the concessions Zaev made in Prespa go

As the election campaign in Greece heats up, the left wing SYRIZA party published a letter conservative former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis wrote to US President George W. Bush in 2005, in which he says he accepts a solution under which Macedonia would still be called Republic of Macedonia domestically. The...
Balkans 10.06.19 | 10:01

Tsipras officially begins the procedure for the early general elections in Greece

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will officially ask President Prokopis Pavlopoulos to call for early general elections, to be held on July 7th. Tsipras announced the elections after the major defeat his leftist SYRIZA party suffered in the European and municipal elections, where the conservative...
Macedonia 07.06.19 | 18:05

Zaev: I love my friend Tsipras, we will remain friends for life, the Prespa treaty will endure

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was effusive when speaking about “his friend”, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras today. Tsipras faces being voted out largely because of the Prespa treaty, and Zaev’s Government is on shaky grounds too with the rejection of his plea to open EU accession talks....
Macedonia 05.06.19 | 11:31

Despite its open public rejection, Tsipras remains proud of the Prespa treaty

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that he remains proud of his decision to negotiate and sign the Prespa treaty, even as it is likely to cost him his office in the coming early general elections. Tsipras and Zoran Zaev negotiated a treaty without including the opposition parties in both countries,...
Balkans 26.05.19 | 23:55

Tsipras admits defeat to critic of the Prespa treaty, will allow early elections

Tsipras promises early elections in Greece An ashen faced Alexis Tsipras announced that he will be calling for early elections to be held, after his SYRIZA party was badly defeated by the conservative New Democracy party in the European and municipal elections. The move brings Kyriakos Mistotakis, an...
Balkans 26.05.19 | 20:32

Tsipras defeated in Greece, big win projected for the main opponent of the Prespa treaty

The Greek ruling leftist SYRIZA party suffered a significant defeat in the European elections. According to the initial results, the conservative New Democracy party led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis is projected to beat SYRIZA by eight percentage points, which would significantly weaken the Alexis Tsipras...
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