Entries Tagged as ‘Commentaries’

April 29, 2008

The Expansionist Features in FYROM’s Foreign Policy Objectives

Source: Macedonian Heritage
 
The Expansionist Features in FYROM’s Foreign Policy Objectives
The first steps of the former Yugoslav “Socialist Republic of Macedonia” towards independent statehood bear the marks of nationalistic visions mixed with territorial expansionism.
It is not a coincidence that, as a result of the first democratic elections (December 1990), the party which won first place in [...]

April 23, 2008

The Macedonians

Source: Macedonian Heritage
The word Macedonian (Makedhonas, makedhonikos) has always been used in the Greek language to declare the origin of individuals and not to mark out their ethnic identity. That is why its use is so widespread and unlimited; all the more so, since it drew on the weighty heritage of Alexander the Great, unforgotten [...]

April 22, 2008

The “Name” Issue

Source: The Falsification of History of Macedonia 
What’s all the trouble about?
When it comes to the bottom line, the so called Macedonian Problem is just a problem of definition ?!
Macedonia is the name of a geographical area of the Balkans as it is shown in the following map with the blue dashed line. Only a part [...]

April 9, 2008

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 [...]