Macedonia hopes to settle its decades-old name dispute with Greece by the time of a NATO summit in the summer, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said on February 19.
A senior official says the European Union is "very confident" that a 27-year-old dispute over Macedonia's name, which has hampered the former Yugoslav republic's progress toward NATO and EU membership, will be resolved by the end of June.
During a visit to Serbia, European Union enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn has urged the country to implement “difficult reforms” and to normalize ties with Kosovo in order to be able to join the bloc by 2025.
Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev says his country is ready to add a geographical qualifier to its name in a bid to resolve a 27-year-old dispute with neighboring Greece over the name of the former Yugoslav republic.
Serbia and Montenegro "could potentially be ready" for European Union membership by 2025, according to the final draft of the European Commission's Western Balkans strategy seen by RFE/RL.
Hundreds of thousands of Greeks protested outside the parliament in Athens on February 4 against the government's willingness to make concessions in a long-standing name dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. (Reuters, AP)
Tens of thousands of Greeks have staged a mass rally in Athens urging the government not to compromise in the country’s long-running name dispute with neighboring Macedonia.
Officials in Greece say they are investigating a death threat against the country's foreign minister that is thought to be tied to efforts with Macedonia to resolve a decades-old name dispute between the neighbors.
UN negotiator Matthew Nimetz on February 1 voiced optimism that Balkan neighbors Macedonia and Greece could resolve a name dispute that has strained relations between the two countries for more than a quarter of a century.
UN negotiator Matthew Nimetz has arrived in Macedonia for talks with the country's leadership, in a relaunched effort to settle a dispute with neighboring Greece over Macedonia's official name.
UN mediator Matthew Nimetz on January 30 held talks with officials in Athens amid efforts to end a long-running dispute between Balkan neighbors Greece and Macedonia over the latter's official name.
A United Nations mediator is traveling to Greece for two-day talks on ways to resolve a 27-year-old dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.
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