Announcements started to arrive from certain Independent Greeks MPs that the party’s decision to leave the ruling coalition has already been adopted, even though a party spokesperson said that Independent Greeks would not vote in favour of the Prespa Agreement and that the issue of support for the coalition would be clarified following Friday’s meeting between party leader Panos Kammenos ...

“We’re investing maximum efforts to vote through the finality of the constitutional amendments by the middle of January,” PM Zoran Zaev said on Friday. According to him, there’s nothing scary when it comes to the draft amendments. “The Macedonian identity and language are guaranteed,” the PM added. Zaev considers that Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos should give the name deal ...

The Greek government claims that the amendments for constitutional changes adopted by the government in Skopje are in the spirit of the Prespa Agreement, MIA reports citing sources from within the Greek government. “The changes made to the amendment XXXVI where now stands the word “diaspora” are in accordance with the text and the spirit of the Prespa Agreement. This ...

The Greek Defence Minister and leader of the party Independent Greeks Panos Kammenos said during a session in the Greek Parliament that he and his party will never support the Prespa Agreement. “The Prespa Agreement is officially dead. It died the very moment when the Skopje PM Zoran Zaev made statements that negate the agreement itself. Who knows, maybe there ...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has resigned following a disagreement with the defense minister over the handling of a recent deal which would change Macedonia’s name in exchange for Greece dropping its objections to the country joining NATO, AP reported. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced Wednesday he had accepted Kotzias’ resignation, and said he would take over the foreign ministry ...

The United States support the Prespa Agreement and its full implementation, a State Department official told Greek web-portal Real.gr. Asked by Real.gr’s correspondent about the U.S. administration’s stance regarding the Plan B of Panos Kammenos, leader of the Greek government junior coalition partner, allegedly presented during a meeting with Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell, ...

The neighboring country should first meet its obligations arising from the agreement and then, in January or February, we will hold talks with our coalition partner in order to move the process forward, said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in reference to the opposite stance with junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos over the name deal. “Now we are waiting to ...

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Defence Minister Panos Kammenos open Wednesday the door for Skopje’s integration in NATO after the recent recognition of the Macedonian nationality and language in Prespa. “Today in Brussels, Tsipras and Kammenos open the NATO door to the neighbouring country of Skopje. In this way, they hand over ...