fibbra's comments

FYROM is a neighboring country to Greece. For the last 20+ years, the two countries were on a stalemate on this. Greece did not invest much into their northern neighbor. Turkey with Erdogan has more economic involvement in FYROM than Greece, even if there are no traditional links between them.

History is full of such issues. This case reached up to economic sanctions. It is good there was no war about this.

It makes you wonder if anything will change when this agreement gets implemented.

The official name is still FYROM and will switch to North Macedonia when the agreement starts getting implemented. In a few months or so.

It has been a big embarrassment.

The 'macedonian' (irl: south slavic) language was recognized as a language in 1977 at a UN standards meeting that took place in Athens.

When Yugoslavia was broken in pieces, the issue of the name for FYROM should have been resolved then and there. The most promising name was North Macedonia. Oh the irony.

Ancient Macedonia was part of Ancient Greece.

Yes, the city-states have been fighting all the time, just like Athens and Sparta. But they have been part of Ancient Greece.

In the case of FYROM (still the official name until the agreement gets implemented soonish), they have been appropriating the Greek identity. That was not just some individuals at FYROM, it was the whole political apparatus of FYROM since the 90s.

That is not an official stance.

Macedonia is part of the Greek identity. FYROM (still the official name until the agreement gets implemented in a few months) have been claiming this Greek identity by misappropriating history.

Think of it as a trademark violation.

Most likely they did not even read the agreement. Either side.

There is need for research into what is happening in the gut, what the microbiome looks like and how it is influenced by food and stress.

This research money can either come by government funding (ideal for basic research) or by private funding (focused, to produce top medicines).

As it looks now, the private funding may not work because any remedy in the form of a medicine, would be applied a couple of times and that's it. There may not be enough money to make.

Well, they tried an ironic "tongue-in-cheek" title, let's not burn them.