All in a Name

All in a Name
By Dora Bakoyannis
1 April 2008
The Wall Street Journal Europe
ATHENS — The NATO summit comes to Southeastern Europe this week, and Greece is looking forward to it. The choice of Bucharest as the summit’s host holds stark symbolism. Romania, having joined, alongside Bulgaria, the trans-Atlantic alliance in 2004 and the European Union last [...]

Macedones, a Greek-speaking people

From The Book: Alexander the Great: A Reader By Ian Worthington (Publisher: Routledge)

The Macedonian name dispute

The Macedonian name dispute
By Aristotle Tziampiris
March 30, 2008
Athens has vowed to veto NATO’s enlargement, not allowing the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM - the country’s official United Nations name) to enter the Alliance at the April Bucharest Summit, unless there is a prior satisfactory resolution of the bilateral name dispute (what FYROM’s final name [...]

The Academy of Athens’ public position on the Macedonian Issue

PRESS RELEASES
28/03/2008
The Academy of Athens’ public position on the Macedonian Issue
The Academy of Athens, conscious of its scholarly mission, considers that a viable solution to the problem of the name of FYROM is possible only on the basis of an accurate evaluation of the facts. The Academy, therefore, is making public its own well-documented views. [...]

What’s in a Name? - Qu’y a-t-il dans un nom?

The World Council of Hellenes, Alexandria,  02.04.2008:
 SAE ad on the FYROM name issue in newspapers worldwide
SAE Directorate - SAE ad on the FYROM name issue in newspapers worldwide
In English:

 
 
 
What’s in a Name?
A challenge for regional stability
*Why is the Macedonian question so delicate and complex? 
The term “Macedonia” is not exclusively related to a specific state. Rather, it [...]