Milososki Says Macedonia ICJ Verdict A Historical Achievement
By Goran TrajkovOn Monday (November 5th), the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in a 15-1 vote that Greece violated the 1995 Interim Accord by vetoing Macedonia's bid for NATO membership at the 2008 summit in Bucharest.The accord between the two countries stipulates that Greece woul...
Read MoreFox News Passes Off Greek Riots As Moscow Election Protests
U.S. TV channel Fox News tried to pass off riots in the Greek capital Athens as protests against the results of Russian parliamentary elections in Moscow, the Rossiya 24 television channel reported.As is seen on videos posted on YouTube as well as on the Rossiya 24 website, the December 7 report...
Read More“Greek Protests” On Moscow Streets
By Vesnovskaya MariaThis week saw the US Fox News TV channel’s coverage of the latest protests in Moscow. In a bizarre twist, the footage showed green grass and palm trees apparently on Moscow streets in the month of December, as well as policemen wearing uniform of the Greek Interior Minister f...
Read MoreGreece Sees Win-And-Worry Over ICJ’s Macedonia Decision
By Andy DabilisThe International Court of Justice's (ICJ) 15-1 finding that Greece was wrong to block Macedonia's entry into NATO in 2008 in a long-running dispute over the country's name has brought some howls of indignation from the Greeks, but also a claim of victory because the court said i...
Read MoreGreece: Parliament Backs 2012 Austerity Budget
The Greece parliament approved on Wednesday an austerity budget for 2012 that aims to shrink the country’s debt and rescue the domestic economy from deep recession.The 2012 budget is designed to cut the deficit to 5.4 percent of GDP from a projected 9 percent in 2011. It will also see implementa...
Read MoreMacedonia Wins ICJ Case Against Greece
By Misko TaleskiThe International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced its verdict Monday (December 5th) in the three-year-old name dispute case between Macedonia and Greece.After the court addressed the first of the verdict's three points -- that it has jurisdiction in the case -- it concluded ...
Read MoreIMF Gives Green Light To Another Greece Bailout Tranche
The International Monetary Fund said it had approved a 2.2-billion ($2.9 billion) euro installment of international financial aid to keep the Greek economy afloat.The Greek authorities earlier said they needed to receive cash before Christmas in order to avoid a looming default. On November 30 f...
Read MoreHague Judgement Reinforces Need For Macedonia To End Shameful Name Negotiations – OpEd
By MHRMI and AMHRCNot that any more incentive should be needed to stop negotiating your own name, but in a 15-1 vote, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ruled today that Greece violated the United Nations' sponsored Interim Accord (a 1995 "agreement" between Macedonia and Gree...
Read MoreMacedonia Savors World Court Victory Over Greece
By Sinisa Jakov MarusicThe president of the court, Judge Hisashi Ovada, said the judges had ruled by 15 votes to one "that the Hellenic Republic, by objecting to the admission of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to NATO, has breached its obligation under Article 11, paragraph 1, of the ...
Read MoreICJ Name Dispute Ruling: Solution In Hands Of Both Parties – Howitt
The judgement made by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague Monday morning in the case of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia versus Greece must spark renewed efforts to find a solution, Richard Howitt MEP, the Member of the European Parliament who leads for the country in its ...
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