Macedonia News

Vasko Naumovski, Assoc. Prof. with the University of International Law and Politics in New York, will be the new Deputy Prime Minister of FYRMacedonia, in charge with European Affairs

The information contained in an article in the newspaper "Apoyevmatini" by the distinguished journalist Ms Sophie Voultepsi that the European Commission has accepted the introduction made by the Think Tank European Stability whereby the Skopjans may circulate freely in the EU, raises the serious question as to the name by which the Skopjans would go around. As the Skopjans have deceitfully called themselves "Macedonians" ...

The trial of the former Deputy Prime Minister, Vasil Tupurkovski was unfair and a clear example of a corrupt judiciary, the Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights said in a case study.

President Karolos Papoulias yesterday appealed to politicians in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to abandon "nationalist and anachronistic tactics for the benefit and welfare of its citizens". Papoulias made his statement from Belgrade, where he is on an official visit and met yesterday with Serbian President Boris Tadic .

Greece's main opposition PASOK leader and Socialist International President George Papandreou on Monday called from Budva, Montenegro, on the European Union to accept in its ranks the countries of the western Balkans, namely Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYROM and Albania, by the year 2014, one hundred years after the start, in the ...

Balkan Illusion - phantasia archaica: "Daron. This is a name for the ancient Macedonian god of healing.

Macedonian opposition parties said the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Bocevski was a sign of the government’s inability to make progress with its European Union accession bid.

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of an ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula of Southeastern Europe. The territory of this kingdom now is a region in North Greece, Southwestern Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia.

The rocks of Deskati in the prefecture of Grevena, northwestern Greece, have attracted the interest of geologists worldwide as they tell the geological history of the earth and were the basis for the development of the tectonic plates theory.

June 30, 2009: Balkan diplomacy struggles on. A UN mediator will sponsor new talks in July between Greece and Macedonia, in an attempt to resolve "The Name War." Greece insists that Macedonia be called the FYROM.

The OSCE ministers of foreign affairs met in Corfu for the first time in an informal setting, in order to discuss the current challenges and future perspectives of the common, indivisible, comprehensive and cooperative security, which has marked the post-Cold War European security architecture.

Ivica Bosevkski continues to depict FYROM as a victim while continuing to ignore his government's unrelenting provocations against Greece. The refusal of his government to make reasonable concessions that are consistent with historical and geographical realities in the Balkans is precisely the reason why this dispute with Greece remains alive.

A project headed by Thessaloniki Aristotle University Professor Nikos Efstratiou unearthed stone tools of a high quality from the Epipaleolithic Period about 14,000 years ago, Athens News Service reported Saturday.

Southern Greeks and Macedonians said no good word to each other during long civil conflicts. Just like Southern and Northern Americans during the American Civil War.

US deputy secretary of state James Steinberg said that Saturday's NATO-Russia meeting and Sunday's OSCE ministerial meeting on Corfu provided a significant opportunity for dialogue on the major challenges faced by Europe, such as regional security, arms proliferation, terrorism, and economic matters, in an interview on Greek state television ...

Greece will preside over a meeting between NATO and Russia and a gathering of foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Corfu this weekend, which aims to draw up a new framework for the European security structure.

THE old men in skullcaps hiked up the cobblestone steps in the last bruised light of dusk. They passed Gypsy merchants draped in rugs that were for sale, engineering students on post-cafe strolls and children chattering in an acrobatic blend of Greek, Turkish and the Slavic language of the Pomaks.

WASHINGTON, DC U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Gus Bilirakis, Co-Chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, expressed support for the renewed UN-backed negotiations between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in finding a mutually agreed upon resolution to the ongoing name dispute.

Greece will preside over a meeting between NATO and Russia and a gathering of foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Corfu this weekend, which aims to draw up a new framework for the European security structure.

The presidents of Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Montenegro held a summit here yesterday on EU and NATO integration that gave equal status to their Kosovo counterpart for the first time.