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If the music sounds exotic, maybe so does the name of the country: Macedonia. The Former Yugoslav Republic has had formal candidacy status for the European Union since 2005 but its negotiations to join have not yet begun. Before it may become a member of the bloc it must settle its quarrel with neighbour Greece. Seventeen years after becoming independent, this country of two million people is still fighting to have the name emblazoned in its constitution universally recognised. Athens won't have it, because the Greeks have a region using the same name. Macedonia's Slavic people are also standing firm - about what they call themselves.

Speaking are:
0:48 Vox pop (Macedonian), in Macedonian
1:25 Antonio MILOSOSKI, Foreign Affairs Minister of FYROM, in English
2:06 Jovan DONEV, historian, professor of international relations, in English
3:02 Vox pop (Greek), in English
3:53 Panogiotis PSOMIADIS, prefect of Thessaloniki, in Greek
4:36 MEP Erik MEIJER (GUE/NGL, NL), in English
5:20 MEP Erik MEIJER (GUE/NGL, NL), in English
5:49 Antonios TRAKATELLIS (PPE-DE, EL), in English
6:26 Borjan JOVANOVSKI, journalist, in French
7:23 Panos JOANIDIS, journalist for "Makedonia", in French

This programme was made available to broadcasters by the European Parliament.

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  • ΑΡΧΕΛΑΟΣ (ΑRCHELAUS) ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΣ (PHILIPPE) ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ (ALEXANDER) ΠΕΡΔΙΚΚΑΣ (PERDICCAS) ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΩΝ (PARMENION) ΚΡΑΤΕΡΟΣ (KRATEROS) ΒΟΥΚΕΦΑΛΑΣ (BUCEPHALUS) = MAKEDONIC NAMES.

    ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑ (APOLLONIA-region of ANCIENT MAKEDONIA) ΠΕΛΛΑ (CAPITAL OF ANCIENT MAKEDONIA) ΒΕΡΓΙΝΑ (VERGINA-the first CAPITAL of ANCIENT MAKEDONIA) = MAKEDONIC CITY NAMES.

    CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO US HOW THE YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU COME FROM ANCIENT MAKEDONIANS,WHEN YOUR SURNAMES ARE PETROVSKI,PERIC,GRUEFSKI,GETCH­EVSKY?

  • 8 And the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of heaven."

    Alexander the Great (356 BC - 323 BC) died at a week before is 33rd birthday. His kingdom was divided into four parts: Cassander ruled in Macedon, Lysimachus in Thrace, Seleucus in Mesopotamia and Persia, and Ptolemy I Soter in the Levant and Egypt.

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  • @k0r0mp0s fanciful at best. thumbs down for this silly reference.

  • @BigNick157 and when otto made you speak koine(pidgon macedonian) in the 1830s.

    when you change christian turks to pontos "greeks".

    and you have no idea of what the term slavic means.

    WOW! NO LOGIC!

  • isnt that SockCrates6068 a ranting little idiot...

    he personofies the failed state of Hellsass.

    not a clue

    not a past

    and no future.

    DNA proves all i say andhistory just makes it interesting.

    and i have given sources you little fool.

    theres plenty "proofs" for you.

  • Hellsass on the other hand have been shown up to be historic, cultural and economic frauds. greek bonds are junk bonds.

    You are on the verge of collapse and the only thing keeping your banana republic from collapse is EU charity which along withthere patience is running out.

    you will know the end is near when your piddly army is used for riot control. just like your partners in crime the serbs.

    Greece is a failed state soon to be a rump state, corfu, macedonia and cyprus will be the first to go

  • 3(China,Russia and the US) of the 5 permanent members of the UN Security France and the UK have been held to ransom by there EU responsibilities. The UK is openly calling for your banana republic to be ousted from the EU while Macedonia is on the verge of membership and Hellsass has been told that VETO is not an option for you.

    Macedonias economy is doggedly expanding despite your efforts to strangle it and there list of friends is growing.

  • FYROMIANS ARE BULGARIA ' S FARTS!

  • @HandsomeStranger1963 TO THEM BECAUSE ACTUALLY NOONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THIS UNHISTORIC EX YYUGOSLAVIAN POPULATION...LOL

    YOU ARE DANGEROUS FOR HUMANITY...THE GOOD THING IS THAT NOONE TAKES SERIOUSLY YOUR COMPLEXIC COMMENTS...GO TO SCHOOL IF YOU HAVE THERE BULGARIAN!

  • @HandsomeStranger1963 from these idiots!every slav of you has to tell his own story ahahahha what a circus...if you coulld understand how clown and funny you seem to my eyes you wouldnt have written these paranoid bullshit!THERE WAS NO SUCH PLACE LIKE ANCIENT GREECE???????????OMG WORLD PLZ LISTEN HERE IS A FYROMIAN SAYING THERE IS NO ANCIENT GREECE AND SLAVS ARE CONNECTED TO MACEDONIANS!OMG EVERYTHING THAT WORLD LEARNT IS A LIE..LETS BLESS THE FYROMSKOPIAN GIPSYS THEY NEED TO PAY ATTENTION

  • @HandsomeStranger1963 what a rediculous comment,,mister 3rd world bulgarian instead of saying bullshits on ytube like slavic culture is macedonian culture(omg what a fucking history killer) write down your proofs because i can tell you macdonians are alliens...lol...well if you cannot understand that your idiot slavic languache did not exist that time then you are a comic yourself...you say omg that this idiot languache(slavic) have connection with macedonians....wht else can you hear my god

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