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We were in Skopje the day after they changed the name from the placeholder FYROM to North Macedonia. Going to the national museum that the former government (the one that made all the "historical" monuments and buildings) had created, with all the propaganda extolling their right to control 'greater Macedonia' (including Thessaloniki), I think it's naive to view this as a petty naming dispute.
I think 'North Macedonia' was a good compromise, even if it made the Golden Dawn cry (generally I'm for anything that makes them cry, actually). Of course, I know a lot of non-Nazi Greeks that also were against them using the name, but I thought their arguments were generally of a nationalistic nature (Macedonia is Greece!).