2018 Treaty

Prespa Agreement

Name: Prespa Agreement
Start: 2018

The compromise with Greece over the name unlocks thirty years of diplomatic deadlock.

What leads to what

Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.

Downstream

leads to NATO accession of North Macedonia 2020 Le nom réglé, le veto grec tombe.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 2018 — the context national timelines leave out.

2 years later NextGenerationEU
2 years later Brexit United Kingdom
2 years earlier British referendum
2 years later 2020 protests Belarus
4 years later Candidate status for Ukraine Ukraine
4 years later War in Ukraine
5 years earlier Euromaidan Ukraine
5 years later NATO accession of Finland Finland

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

European integration 1950 – 2030 From coal and steel to a Union of twenty-seven.

Countries involved

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What was written of it

A day will come when all of you, nations of the continent, without losing your distinct qualities and your glorious individuality, will merge closely into a higher unity, and will form the European brotherhood.

Victor Hugo 1849

Opening address to the Peace Congress, Paris

Translated by the site, not by the author.