 In Spring 2018, extensive negotiations in a bid to resolve the naming dispute were held in rounds, with frequent meetings of the foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia achieving tangible progress on the naming dispute.Eventually, on May 17, at the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkan summit of Sofia, Bulgaria, the Prime Ministers of the two countries met, and discussed a new name, in addition to the 5 other names already proposed by UN Envoy Nimetz