The abuse of the veto is an anti-historical and anti-European act that may unleash a dangerous retroactive chain reaction, says Gjorge Ivanov in his column published in Le Monde.

“The block from the Republic of Greece to the accession of the Republic of Macedonia to the European Union and NATO, if accepted as a new practice, is going to set off a dangerous chain reaction of vetoes that could again pull us into the whirlpool of political anachronisms of the 19th century,” Ivanov says.

The condition for Euro-Atlantic integration imposed on Macedonia does not require only renouncing the country’s name, but also renouncing individual human rights of its citizens.

“No country should let its citizens’ rights be denied by anyone, whether from the inside or the outside. Nobody should allow encroachment with a public law act upon the domain of privacy and individual human rights. It is simply impossible to accept let alone implement a solution with such an effect,” Ivanov says.