Macedonia has been issued a positive report from the European Commission with the highest grades ever and the fourth in a row recommendation for launching EU membership negotiations. It is important to our country that Brussels has restored to the pages of the report the adjective ‘Macedonian’ and has made a mention of the Judgment of the International Court of Justice. The European Commission believes that setting a date for opening membership negotiations is important because it would encourage the authorities to continue carrying out reforms, would increase the EU credibility and would strengthen interethnic relations.

A novelty is that the European Commission offers in the report a formula according to which the name issue should be resolved in a parallel with the EU membership negotiations.