Nothing will change dramatically or overnight after the summit in Chicago if Macedonia remains outside NATO, say experts that Dnevnik has consulted in the wake of the recently promoted theses that interethnic relations would get strained and that the situation would radicalize and escalate. Is this an objective assessment or pressure for seeking out a solution to the name issue as a prerequisite for joining NATO?

The opposition parties of the Macedonian and the Albanian political blocs have already warned that a failure to resolve the name issue would aggravate interethnic relations.