Greeks Protest Over Neighbor’s Use of the Name Macedonia<br />Last week Ieronymos II, the archbishop of Athens and All Greece, told Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras<br />that "what is needed now is not protests and cries, but national unity." Mr. Tsipras, who is expected to meet with his Macedonian counterpart, Zoran Zaev, on the sidelines of a summit meeting next week in Davos, Switzerland, said in an interview with the center-left Greek newspaper Ethnos published on Sunday that he understood Greeks’ sensitivities over the name talks.<br />21, 2018<br />ATHENS — Tens of thousands of people gathered in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, on Sunday to protest the inclusion of the word "Macedonia"<br />in the name of the neighboring former Yugoslav republic amid talks by the two nations to resolve the longstanding dispute.<br />Drawing what the police estimated at 90,000 people, the rally was the first major protest since Greece<br />and the Republic of Macedonia agreed to join United Nations-mediated talks this month to settle the 25-year disagreement.<br />NATO’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, told officials last week in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia’s capital,<br />that the name dispute with Greece must be resolved before the Balkan country can join the alliance.<br />" he said, "to make absolutely clear that nobody is claiming other people’s land or history." His junior coalition partner, Panos Kammenos, has a different view.<br />that But it is not unreasonable to have the term Macedonia included in a compound name, with either a geographical or a chronological qualifier, for all uses,
