Macedonia is unsatisfied with the outcome of the meeting of the Council of Ministers in Brussels, at which it was not set a date for starting accession talks. However, Macedonia is not giving up the Euro-integration process and talks for resolution of the name issue. It is not going to accept blackmails and ultimatums to renounce its identity either.

“Greece did not want a solution. It set conditions that no government or politician could accept. I directly told Papandreou on the last occasion we met that he would find no government over the next 100 years that would accept his demands and conditions,” Prime Minister Gruevski said in Bonn on Wednesday where he is attending the Congress of the European People’s Party.

He explained that the sentence saying that the Council of Ministers would table again the issue of Macedonia’s accession talks over the next six months is a kind of a compromise that Greece made, but that compromise meant nothing because the word “date” was not mentioned. He reiterated that what happened was a sophisticated version of the Greek block in Bucharest and “regardless of the way in which we are blocked, this is classic impediment”.