Tsipras: 'We are one step away from a historic event'

After nearly 30 years of inertia and repeated national concessions, following an entire year of gruelling negotiations, Greece was finally coming to the end of an arduous process, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday, taking the stand during the parliamentary debate on the Prespes Agreement. 

"At this moment we are one step away from a historic event," he told lawmakers, stressing that the time had come for each one of them "that cannot be blackmailed or terrorised and speak only with their conscience" to step up and face their responsibility to history and the nation.

Replying to main opposition New Democracy President Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who had preceded him, Tsipras slammed him for being "divisive and offensive" and accused him of lacking arguments to support his positions. He also strongly criticised the main opposition leader's failure to condemn attacks targeting MPs that supported the Prespes Agreement.

"You did not find one word of condemnation...you attempted instead to address us with language

Theodorakis: Prespes Agreement stops FYROM 'monopolising' the name "Macedonia"

Speaking in Parliament during the debate on the Prespes Agreement on Thursday, Potami party leader Stavros Theodorakis defended his position to support the agreement as beneficial for Greece.

"The Prespes Agreement stops our neighbours monopolising the name Macedonia.
The overwhelming majority of the world's people, when they hear Macedonia, they think of FYROM," Theodorakis said, pointing out that 140 countries have recognised Greece's northern neighbour with its constitutional name.


This alone proved that Greece "was burying its head in the sand" all these years and refusing to see