wilson international center for scholars we appreciate it. what is in a name a whole lot if you ask a greece and macedonia these two countries have now resolved a dispute that has been blocking the former yugoslav republic from joining nato and applying for an e.u. membership the problem was macedonia's name now the macedonian prime minister announced that from now on his country would be known as the republic of north macedonia his counterpart in athens meanwhile alexis tsipras presented the deal to greece's president athens has long objected to the name macedonia because it also has that name for a greek province greece is now expected to drop its opposition to north macedonia becoming a nato member and beginning the process of joining me you know for. more let's bring in journalist anthony. who is standing by in the great capital athens for us