The South-East Europe Programme of ELIAMEP conducted in the course of 2018 a research which examines the progress of the implementation of the Confidence Building Measures between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia which were signed in 2015. This research is the follow-up to a research project that was conducted in 2017 and […]
The latest issue of an important regional publication, the ‘Political Trends & Dynamics’ of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe Project 2016-2018, focuses on bilateral disputes in the wider Balkans after the Prespa Agreement. The publication includes a parallel interview of Bojan Maricik and Ioannis Armakolas offering thoughts on the Skopje-Athens Dialogue, a commentary on the […]
After many years of virtual inaction, the dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is again attracting political attention in Athens, Skopje and important Western capitals. In the latest issue (only available in Greek) of ELIAMEP’s Strategic Analyses series, prominent analysts offer their views on the latest developments in the diplomatic […]
The latest report of ELIAMEP’s South-East Europe Programme is entitled “What’s in a Name? Greek Public Attitudes towards the ‘Name Dispute’ and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 2018”. It is a comprehensive examination of all the major issues pertaining to the name dispute and bilateral relations between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic […]
The newest issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies is now available online. In this issue, Florian Bieber edited a special section discussing the 1990 founding elections in Bosnia and Herzegovinia, which led to an overwhelming victory for the three ethno-nationalist parties. Within the special section, Damir Kapidžić contributed a piece on the interaction of electoral […]
In ELIAMEP Thesis 3/2009 Evangelos Kofos analyses the 16-year old Balkan diplomatic imbroglio over the name issue of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (FYROM). The paper wants to initiate a discourse with the assessments and proposals of a recent report of the International Crisis Group, Macedonia’s Name: Breaking the Deadlock. In addition, the author […]
The object of this study is to explore the image of Greece held by the society of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as this has been created by two very important channels of information: the media and the education system. The media address the entire social body and have acquired increasingimportance in the creation […]
Relations between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were normalised by the Interim Accord (1995). This Accord set the foundations for all-round relations between the two countries. At the same time, however, it postponed resolution of the thorny issue of the country’s final name and on related cultural issues. Seven years into this […]