Macedonia

Athens is bracing for some European Union members to push for accession talks with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to begin regardless of the country?s ongoing negotiations with Greece to settle the name dispute.

The thorny “name issue” still poisoning relations between Greece and its neighbor to the immediate north, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Yugoslavia (FYRoM), over what Athens calls the neighbor and what the neighbor calls itself, generated headlines a world away last week, in Australia.

Regional ministers discuss "Turkish Stream"

BUDAPEST -- Foreign ministers of Serbia, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, and Macedonia are meeting in Budapest on Tuesday to discuss participation in the Turkish Stream pipeline.

The amazing photos of Stratos Kalafatis from Mount Athos monastery, in northern Greece, focus on the life of the 1,400 monkw that currently reside on the monastic mountain that was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.

The Modernist facade of Macedonia's justice ministry has received a radical new-old look, in the latest phase of the Classically-inspired revamp of the capital, Skopje.

The north front has received a complete makeover while the ground floor has been expanded at the expense of a pedestrian passage beneath the building.

Macedonia, Serbia boost military co-operation

Better military co-operation is strengthening Serbian and Macedonian capacities for participation in peacekeeping operations.

Troops from Macedonia and Serbia participated in the Platinum Wolf 2015 exercise at the South Base in Serbia. [AFP]

By Dalton Bennett & Shawn Pogatchnik

VELES, FYROM - This is the moment when Sandrine Koffi's dream of a new life in Europe ended - and her nightmare of an infant lost in the night began.

Skopje asks Russia to cut customs rates

SKOPJE -- Macedonia has asked Russia to lower its customs rates for agriculture and food industry products that Macedonia exports to that country.

Greece has launched a "preliminary investigation for foreign bribery and money laundering" allegedly committed by AKTOR AD? in neighbouring Macedonia, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, said in its latest Report on Implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Greece.

Armed forces train leaders for new global challenges

The British Embassy in Macedonia held training for 30 high-ranking officials in the security sector.

UK Major General John Moore-Bick shares advice with representatives from Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Serbia and Ukraine. [British Embassy Skopje]