19 posts
Macedonia v. Greece
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On EJIL:Talk!, Antonios Tzanakopoulos has a discussion of the ICJ's judgment in Macedonia v. Greece. I have very little to add to what he wrote, but I would like to point out one aspect of the case that he does not mention: Did Greece comply with its...
Како да ја нарекуваме Македонија?
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Името на оваа поранешна југословенска република е пречка за нејзиното интегрирање со 27те држави-членки Грција се противи на интегрирањ
A rogue statelet of Europe, ridicules the whole continent!
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Believe it or not, it has been 20 years since the independence of FYROM, or the "Macedonian" state! With an on-going dispute between the country and Greece about its name and Bulgaria on the language, this country seems to be followed by problems but...
ИМА ЛИ ПЛАН Б ЗА МАКЕДОНИЈА?
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Филе во своето излагање пред Европскиот парламент и преставувањетo на стратегијата за проширување и извештаите за државите од Западен Б...
FYROM chairs the Council of Europe
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For the next six months, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will chair the Council of Europe. FYROM took over from the Swiss yesterday, and the details of their presidency can be found on a special presidency website; the speech of th...
Links 17 March 2010
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I know this has been around a while, but it truly is a genius idea. A folding plug. I liked this article about Macedonia for the author’s example of what makes him feel English Having been in England since the age of 11, I have a foot in both...
Free, to travel, at last
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BELGRADE — After nearly 18 years, the citizens of Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro are free to travel to European Union Schengen area countries without visas. A decision by the Council of Ministers of the European Union on November 30 opened t...
Greece Blocked Decision on Macedonia?
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Bloomberg reports that Greece has blocked a proposal to set a starting date for starting accession negotiations with the Republic of Macedonia. This comes after a meeting between the prime ministers of Greece and Macedonia, George Papandreou and Niko...
FYROM & Greece: The dispute over the word "Macedonia" continues
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According to EurActiv, the Greek and the Macedonian prime ministers will meet on Friday to discuss the stupid name issue they have been running for years. I have said what I think about this over a year ago already. And I still think that the name o...
Macedonia: Presdiential Elections, Local Elections
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Macedonians headed to the polls on Sunday to choose the country’s president from seven candidates and 84 mayors from 365 candidates, and members of the local councils. The incumbent president, Branko Crvenkovski did not run for re-election. Gj...
Snow White Elections in Macedonia (FYROM) [Ari RUSILA]
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George Ivanov from the main ruling VMRO DPMNE party maintains a lead according to early results from (FYRO) Macedonia’s (later Macedonia) Presidential election although he is likely to face a run-off vote in two weeks time; then his challenger will...
Peaceful elections in Macedonia will go into second round (updated by: Slovakian elections)
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From BBC:"Partial results showed Mr [Gjorgje] Ivanov - the candidate of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's VMRO-DPMNE party - to be ahead with more than 35% of the vote.The race for second place was between Ljubomir Frckoski, who is backed by the Socia...
“Macedonia’s Obama”?
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Macedonia will hold Presidential elections this weekend. No news there. But here’s the interesting thing: recent polls suggest that an ethnic Albanian candidate, Imer Selmani, has a decent chance of making it past the first round. If so, he...
Next round in the Greek-Macedonian nonsense war of words
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Different news sources (also here) report that Greece and Macedonia, or in diplomatic terms, the "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (FYROM), will return to the negotiation table on 14-15 August to try to resolve the pending name dispute between...
Macedonia discussion at “afoe”
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Douglas Muir at the A Fistful of Euros blog started up quite a discussion with his recent post about the Republic of Macedonia, and its Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. Aside from the main post, you may also want to read through the debate between M...
Macedonia has a new government, too
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Back in January, I posted about how Macedonia’s young Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, was for some reason the most popular head of government in the Balkans. Well, they had Parliamentary elections at the beginning of June, and Macedonia said...
