Macedonia and Greece vow to solve decades-old name dispute

[spmetla]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/m...ispute-n836396

LONDON — What's in a name? For the uneasy European neighbors of Macedonia and Greece, quite a lot actually.

In one of the strangest international disputes still playing out on the world stage, these two countries have been quarreling for more than a quarter of a century about what Macedonia should be called.

It's not just symbolic: The dispute has seen Greece block Macedonia's potential accession to NATO and the European Union, as well as imposing a brief but crippling trade embargo in the mid-1990s........

Some good news for a change. Would be nice for Macedonia to join NATO, they've certainly supported the Afghan mission among UN ones as well. Would also be good for friendly relations between Macedonia and Greece not to forgot Albania too.

[CrossLOPER]

Fighting over skeleton words.

I remember there was a member here who would lose his s*** over this topic. He also though that bisexuality was OK, so long as you got married to a woman and had kids, so he had his own banana world logic.

[Fragony]

I didn't even know Macedonia is a country, I thought it was a part of Greece.

[Crandar]

Macedonia has sent troops to support the U.S.-led wars in Iran and Afghanistan

Qualitative journalism from NBC. Is it too much to ask from supposedly professionals to double-check their article before they publish it?

Anyway, on topic, I hope that a deal will be achieved, but I'm not very optimist. In Greece and I imagine it's the same in Macedonia, the vast majority is against the inclusion of Macedonia in the country's official name. That makes a compromise politically suicidal.

Also, contrary to what the article says, SYRIZA is now a center, center-left party with many nationalist voters. They also govern the country in an alliance with a far-right group called Independent Greeks, whose program has endorsed the chem-trail conspiracy theory, so they are not invulnerable in nationalist matters.

http://www.eliamep.gr/wp-content/upl...-Sept-2016.pdf

[Fragony]

Can you explain it for me please? I don't really trust anything from google wtf is going on?

[Gilrandir]

Some good news for a change. Would be nice for Macedonia...

Do you want Sarmatian to have a heart attack? He would be hemmed in by NATO altogether!

In Greece and I imagine it's the same in Macedonia, the vast majority is against the inclusion of Macedonia in the country's official name. That makes a compromise politically suicidal.

The bold needs substantiation. AFAIK, Macedonia had offered several options all of which included "Macedonia":http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017...hens-to-agree/

[Crandar]

Can you explain it for me please? I don't really trust anything from google wtf is going on?

They said Iran instead of Iraq. Elementary mistake.
[QUOTE=Gilrandir;2053771600The bold needs substantiation. AFAIK, Macedonia had offered several options all of which included "Macedonia":[/QUOTE]
I meant that the public opinion of Greeks and Macedonians are irreconcilable. Of course the majority of Macedonians want term Macedonia included and about half of them (or the majority, if we exclude Albanians) are against a compromise.
https://euobserver.com/news/30146

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Qualitative journalism from NBC. Is it too much to ask from supposedly professionals to double-check their article before they publish it?

You are speaking of U.S. journalists, so yes.

[a completely inoffensive name]

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