North Macedonia’s new president reignites a spat with Greece at her inauguration ceremony

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1. Greece being a bitch about the name, nothing new. It always has been called Macedonia, Old people don’t change habits that easily. Heck, Greeks still call Istanbul Constantinople.

2. Balkanic countries trying not to create a new spat every 2 days challenge: impossible

3. You know, names aren’t just labels, they do mean and refer to things. That’s why we have this whole debate in the first place. So it could be argued she’s not taken the (presumably required) oath of office, having sworn to an entity that may, depending on who you ask, be either entirely within Greece, or extend over parts of Greece and North Macedonia.

   More seriously though, this is the most childish course of action – designed specifically to piss your neighbours, while attempting to minimise the diplomatic affront by presenting it as a minor incident. She’s intentionally stirring up trouble North Macedonia can’t handle, in hopes of isolating it diplomatically, and stopping integration into the wider European network; and she doesn’t even have the proverbial balls to do it without trying to disguise it like this.

4. Good luck with the Albanians.

5. Both countries need to get over this shit. Greece needs to be less sensitive and be less exclusionary . Ottoman empire is gone. This should be a topic where they can unite,

6. This is my favourite international petty feud.

7. North Macedonia: * goes back on all its agreements *

   Also North Macedonia: wHy dOn’T tHeY wAnT uS In tHe eU

8. If i name my child macedonia will the greeks kidnap it?

9. International Agreements need to be respected. Sure populism is nice to get votes but if you want to lead a serious country you have to stand behind your country’s commitments or face the consequences. Mitsotakis was also campaigning against the Prespes Agreement before he became the Prime Minister but eventually after he became PM he had to keep it. If the goal of the new President of North Macedonia is to abolish the Treaty(something that will only bring happiness to her Greek equivalent idiot nationalists) she should be ready to face the consequences of this decision.

10. When your politicians give focus to this type of non-sense you can be assured they have nothing to bring to the table – more division, more fights, more empty discussions without improving national population quality of living.

11. Basically accepted the deal to get into nato and have decided to keep pushing. They clearly don’t care about eu membership as much.

12. Very courteous of North Macedonia to self-sabotage their own efforts and postpone their accession so that Moldova can catch up and join the EU at the same time as the great descendants of the Alexandrian kin.

13. Just why.

14. I always laugh hard, when some Southern Slavs speaking a Bulgarian dialect tell me something about Alexander the Great. Mate, when Alexander the Great conquered the world your ancestors were shitting in the dark green forests of today’s Northern Ukraine and Belarus, where they just had finished to linguisticly and culturally part with the Balts and had no clue Slavs would break into West, East and South Slavs some day in the future with the help of Germanians crossing their lands (shout out to the Ostrogoths!), Huns pushing them westwards and Turkic Bolgars mixing up with a huge chunk of them and taking them South where they became Bulgarians (and “Northern Macedonians”) and learned to write from the Greeks.

15. Why do Greek care what Macedonians calls themselves? This is the most retarded pet peeve ever

16. Ahh, certified Balkan moment.

17. You cant trust a country who doesn’t respect its own constitution and international deals, we have enough clowns in EU like Orban.

18. It’s Russia. All that Macedonian stuff. Check history.