EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule suggested in a letter to Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos a new framework that would give the Commission direct insight into the name issue negotiations. Utrinski vesnik has learned that this would be a trilateral meeting of Commissioner Fule, Greek Minister Avramopoulos and Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki.

Deutsche Welle has reported that the European Commissioner has requested of Avramopoulos to appoint his personal envoy, a man of trust, and informed that Commissioner Fule appointed Stefano Sannino, Director General for Enlargement of the EU, as his personal envoy to the trilateral meetings. Fule says in the letter that the goal is building on the conclusions on Macedonia from the December summit of the Council of the European Union.

The European Commission refused to say Wednesday whether Fule sent letters to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia and Greece about the trilateral meeting. Peter Stano, Fule’s spokesman, neither confirmed nor denied Deutsche Welle’s reports.