Germany hails the historic opportunity offered by the Prespes Agreement to potentially
Minister for Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Information Nikos Pappas in an interview with ‘Documento’ newspaper on Sunday underlined the government’s priority not to cut pensions.
“Our political differences with ANEL are well known. We have different views on a series of critical issues in national issues. It is not something new,” Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis said on Sunday in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA).
“New Democracy from the first moment stressed that the Prespes Agreement is damaging for Greece. For this reason, it tabled a censure motion against the government in June,” the main opposition party said on Monday, referring to the referendum in FYROM.
European Commissioner for neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations Johannes Hahn on Friday expressed “regret that his words were misunderstood” when asked to comment on his earlier statements about the talks underway between Greece and Albania.
The agreement of Greece with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) over the name issue was not signed in order to facilitate FYROM’s accession to the European Union and NATO, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told Sto Kokkino FM on Tuesday.
“We are here to walk together on a new path of security, our signature today lays the foundation for this course,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Sunday at Psarades in Prespes, before the signature of a historic agreement to resolve the decades-long name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday an agreement reached by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his FYROM peer settling a name dispute between the two nations is a “bad deal”.
The telephone conversation between the prime ministers of Greece Alexis Tsipras and FYROM Zoran Zaev earlier on Monday is a decisive step towards a resolution of the name issue, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told Kontra TV on the same evening.
Thousands turned out for protest rallies organised in dozens of northern Greek cities on Wednesday, in protest against the prospect of an agreement on the FYROM name issue that contains the name ‘Macedonia’.