Zoran Zaev

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he is hoping to lift a veto on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's membership of NATO and integration with the European Union, by resolving a longstanding name dispute between the two Balkan neighbors.

The session of the Macedonian Assembly, that will once again debate the act, has been scheduled for January 29.

Tanjug is on Tuesday quoting the website Telegraf to report that in his explanation of the decision, Ivanov wrote that "the European flag was abused" during the adoption of this piece of legislation, and that it was passed by a simple majority.

The relatively new government in Skopje has thrown itself into an international public relations campaign as a new United Nations-buffered effort to resolve the name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) gets under way.

The name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will reportedly be discussed at a prime ministerial level in the next few days, reports from Skopje said on Friday. 

According to the tiny Balkan country's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, the meeting will take place on January 24 on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. 

NATO's secretary general is meeting officials in Skopje to discuss the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's (FYROM) renewed accession bid, a decade after a dispute with neighboring Greece halted an initial effort to join the alliance.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrives on an official visit to the Republic of Macedonia, according to the government press service in Skopje.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrives on an official visit to the Republic of Macedonia, the government's press service in Skopje said.

Stoltenberg will stay two days in the Macedonian capital - today and tomorrow. During his visit he will have meetings with the heads of our western neighbor, ministers, and with the leaders of some political parties.

Despite a boycott by VMRO DPMNE, Macedonia's right-wing main opposition party, 61 of the parliament's 120 MPs voted for the agreement. The landmark accord was signed in August 2017 and aims to end the often fraught bilateral relationship between Skopje and Sofia and bring the two countries closer through an EU-oriented partnership.

Macedonia and Greece have a real chance to solve a festering quarter-century-old name dispute by July, Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has said.

FYROM (Macedonian) Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has said that he was optimistic about a solution to the country's name dispute with Greece.

Beta is reporting that he also said 2018 could be good for Macedonia's Euro-Atlantic integration.