Antonio Milošoski arrives in Corfu with a MAT airplane

[Dimko-piperkata]

19 June 2009 :: 1000

A storm of political reactions was provoked when the Greek foreign minister Dora Bakoyanni allowed her Macedonian colleague Antonio Milošoski to arrive in Corfu with an airplane of the state airline MAT (Macedonian Air Transport). Milošoski will take part in the foreign ministers meeting of OSCE, which will take place on the Ionian island on June 28th and 29th. Dora Bakoyanni’s decision is a brave gesture towards Macedonia. Until now Greece was refusing to accept airplanes of the state airline due to symbolic signs, which include the name “Macedonia.”

Due to Antonio Milošoski’s participation in the forum in Corfu, the Greek Foreign Ministry has issued a permit for this flight as an “exception.” “Greek foreign policy has not changed. This permit was issued as an exception,” said a spokesman of the foreign ministry, because of the strong negative reaction from the opposition.

It is interesting to note that the mediator for the name argument between Greece and Macedonia, Matthew Nimetz, usually travels by car between Athens and Skopje. And Greece is pressuring Eurocontrol to press MAT to change its name, in order to fly around Europe.

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what does it mean now ?
the cigani allowed us to land with an macedonian airplane and as a quid pro quo we should change our name ?

ma odi ebise

[Soldier of Macedon]

I hope all the Corfuiotes enjoyed the sight.

[Risto the Great]

What a bunch of prancing fairies the Greek politicians are.
I hope all of their negative energy comes right back at them.

[Rogi]

They probably don't care... a lot of Macedonians go there for holidays and Corfu itself wants independence from Greece

[Daskalot]

Oh the real Greeks from Corfu the island with only real Ancient Greeks and not a single Arvanites or as we say in English former Albanian

[King Makedon]

They probably don't care... a lot of Macedonians go there for holidays and Corfu itself wants independence from Greece

I don't think so. Once they were under italian rulership, that's what they differ from other greeks and makes this island unique. It has a mix of italian/greek style. their inhabitants are mixture between albanians and italians. Their natural language is amixture between italian albanian and greek

[King Makedon]

I don't know MAT how long they'll survuve. they alredy are in depth about 5 mio Euros.

those managers are not able to work. At first they said thei concureency AVIOIMPEX is the main factor becaue they cannot make any money. Since AVIOIMPEX got a slap from the governement MAT was still unable to make any profits. They spend all their money to some albanians in Swiss with whom they worked together. Now those same Kosovar Albanians have their own airline and make a lot of money.

ccc. And they tell us stories.

[osiris]

kossovar business dont make money they launder money.

[Jankovska]

This shouldn't even be a big deal. It's a goverment owned plane, it is normal to have the name and flag of the country. In the normal world this is not a front page news, I guess you can see how far from normal both us and our neighbours are

[Venom]

It's sad really, how we are dealing with such stupid people.

[Soldier of Macedon]

Aeroplanes, beauty contests, eurovision, sporting events, etc, several Greeks have proved time and again that they are fascist idiots.