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By Valentina Dimitrievska in Skopje North Macedonia’s newly elected President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova sparked a crisis in relations with Greece when she pointedly used her country’s old name — Macedonia instead of North Macedonia — during her swearing-in ceremony. In 2020, North Macedonia gained Nato membership following its name change, which introduced the prefix ‘North’, as requested by Greece. This ended a longstanding dispute with Athens that had also held up Skopje’s progress towards EU accession. Siljanovska-Davkova’s decision to avoid using the constitutional name North Macedonia c…

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