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Macedonia and Greece reach historic agreement on name dispute
Valentina Dimitrievska in Skopje
Macedonia and Greece reached a historic deal
to solve the 25-year long name dispute on June 12, agreeing on the new name for the tiny Balkan country – Republic of Northern Macedonia.
The Macedonian-Greek dispute, which emerged after Macedonia declared independence from
Georgian PM resigns after failing to calm street protests
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Georgia’s Acting Finance Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze was on June 14 named as ruling party Georgian Dream’s candidate to become the country’s next prime minister, the parliamentary speaker announced the day after Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili submitted his resignation.
Macedonian PM Zoran Zaev announces the historic deal surrounded by his ministers.
former Yugoslavia back in 1991, concerns Greece’s objection to the use of the name Macedonia as it has a province in the north with the same name. This sparked fears that newly independent Macedonia might claim territories
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In a televised address, Kvirikashvili cited disagree- ments over economic policy and “fundamental is- sues” with the leader of Georgian Dream, Bidzina Ivanishvili, an ex-prime minister of Georgia and
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