At the EU summit in December, Macedonia is going to call for a deadline for setting Macedonia a date for opening membership negotiations, an idea of Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.

Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki says that in the run-up to the EU Summit in December, Macedonia is trying to change the approach of the EU applied by Greece – “I block because I can.”  The goal is for the EU to give room for opening perspectives and for opening membership negotiations, whereby, he adds, an additional dynamics would be added and the probability and motivation for seeking out a solution would increase.