Macedonia is politically upset by the outcome of the meeting of the EU Council of Ministers in Brussels. The opposition accused the Government of conducting the name issue talks badly and of being responsible for the rising Euro-skepticism, as Prime Minister Gruevski said no government would be able to accept the Greek demands.
The leaders’ meeting organized by EU Ambassador Erwan Fouere Friday went in such an atmosphere, too. Prime Minister Gruevski said in a televised interview later that day that the mistrust between the government and the opposition was the main obstacle to building a common strategy in the process of resolving the name issue. According to Gruevski, it is impossible for him to tell everything to the opposition, which evidently sees in the dispute with Greece a unique possibility for political resurrection. On the other hand, SDSM leader Branko Crvenkovski said over the weekend the country was in a dead end and that fear ruled again.