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Sunday, May 20, 2018

Macedonia PM says Greece agrees to discuss proposed name change after decades-long spat

Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said he was ready to go ahead with a new name for his country to solve a decades-long name dispute with Greece and pave the way for full integration of the small Balkan country into the European Union and Nato. But Greek political leaders briefed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rejected the Macedonian proposal outright and the Greek government itself, in a response to Zaev’s remarks, was evasive about the particular name proposal. Zaev said that...


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