Athens objects to its neighbour's use of the term Macedonia, which it considers to be fundamentally Greek, and has in the past blocked EU recognition of the country and imposed a yearlong embargo, starving the country of vital imports.
Atina se protivi korišćenju imena Makedonija od strane svog suseda, jer smatra da je to u osnovi grčki naziv i u prošlosti je blokirala priznanje zemlje od strane EU i uvela jednogodišnji embargo uskraćujući zemlji vitalni uvoz.