[Superstar]

The issue is a lot more complicated than people like "vaskar" make it out to be.

Even when you break it down to the basics; Officially, since WW2, the country currently known as FYROM was called Macedonia. It was part of Jugoslavia, sure, but even then, the people living there called themselves Macedonians. Just like the Croatians called themselves Croats and the Serbs, Serbs. So how can the people from that region be expected to simply give up that name? The name is a vital form of identity, even if that identity is only a few decades old (which it isn't but that's another argument). Everyone in FYROM between the ages of 20 and 60 (which is the majority of the population) was born as a Macedonian. I know I was.

I agree, it's wrong to claim a link to ancient Macedonians but it's also wrong for Greece to start complaining now, after allowing a new Macedonian identity to form for half a century. Maybe the country should be called "New Macedonia", or whatever, but nobody would accept a completely new name.