Nationalist populism is hypocritical and dangerous. The former Prime Ministers of Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia - Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev - have united around this position today in a telephone conversation, the Greek television "Sky" reported, quoted by BNR.
Tsipras and Zaev were at the head of the governments of both countries when the Prespa Treaty was signed in 2018, according to which the name of the former Yugoslav republic was changed to the Republic of North Macedonia, and Greece gave up its veto on Skopje's accession to NATO.
Zaev and Tsipras have agreed to undertake joint initiatives in support of the Prespa Treaty.
Skopje's compliance with it was questioned yesterday by President Gordana Siljanovska - Davkova, who named her country Macedonia during her inauguration.
Today, her office assured her that she would stick to the official application of the constitutional name, but was entitled to use the name Macedonia as "an act of personal right to self-determination and self-identification