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Mitsotakis Says Greece Should Veto Skopje's Accession to EU

As the Greek Parliament voted in favor to ratify the Prespa agreement on Friday, main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis released a statement saying that he is prepared to "fight" what might happen as a result of the deal. Mitsotakis said...

NATO, EU Hail Greek Approval of Prespa Name Deal

Top political officials from around the world hailed the Greek Parliament's ratification of the Prespa Agreement on Friday. The ratification in effect settles the "Macedonia" name dispute between FYROM and Greece and paves the way for the Balkan country to...

FYROM PM Zaev Tweets Congratulations to Tsipras

Congratulations were conveyed from FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev to Greece on Friday following the country's Parliamentary vote ratifying the Prespa Agreement. Prime Minister Zaev tweeted a celebratory message in English to his Greek counterpart, which read “Congratulations my friend,...

Greek Parliament Approves Prespa Accord

Greek lawmakers approved the Prespa Accord after a heated debate on Friday, ending a decades-old dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). 153 M.P.'s out of 300 voted in favor the agreement. There were 146 who voted against,...

Anti-Prespa Protesters Spray-Paint Slogan at US Ambassador's Residence

Protesters opposed to the Prespa accord with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia spray-painted a slogan outside the residence of U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in Athens on Thursday night. The group wrote: “Macedonia, Greek land.” Police rounded up some thirty suspects...

Experts Warn Macedonian Businesses to Register Trademarks Now

Athanasios Saropoulos, the president of the Central Macedonian branch of the Geotechnical Chamber of Greece, warned on Wednesday that regional agri-food businesses should register their trademarks prior to the ratification of the Prespa Agreement by Greece. Saropoulos said during a...

Prespa Agreement Vote Postponed Until Friday Afternoon

The parliamentary vote on the Prespa Agreement has now been postponed until Friday afternoon, the speaker of the Greek Parliament announced on Thursday. According to the decision taken by the council of the president and the deputy presidents of the Greek Parliament,...

EU Commissioner Avramopoulos Calls Prespa Agreement "Problematic"

The European Union’s Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos characterized the Prespa Agreement as "problematic" in a statement he issued on Wednesday. The European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship said that "The Prespa Agreement is not balanced, and therefore it is...

Tight Security Measures in Athens Ahead of Prespa Agreement Vote

The Greek police are bracing for possible violence at a demonstration against the Prespa Agreement which is scheduled to take place in Athens on Thursday evening. The metro station at Syntagma Square will be closed from 16:30 local time (14:30 G.M.T.)...

Greek Parliament Set to Approve Prespa Accord

The Greek government is expected on Thursday night to secure ratification for the Prespa accord signed between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Although a wide range of Greek political parties, from the far-right Golden Dawn to...