All political stakeholders in Macedonia should focus their energy on the European agenda and obtaining a positive evaluation concerning Macedonia’s good neighborly relations in the spring report of the European Commission. With such an appeal, as diplomatic sources from Brussels told Dnevnik, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule paid an announced visit to Macedonia Wednesday. A day after the failed meeting between Prime Minister and VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski and SDSM chairman Branko Crvenkovski, Commissioner Fule had two separate meetings with the two in Skopje where he also met President Gjorge Ivanov.

As the European Commission informed, the preparations for the spring report of the European Commission were the talking point at the meetings. In its brief press release after the meeting, the Commission said that Mr. Fule had useful talks and would again visit Skopje in the context of the High Level Accession Dialogue. Diplomatic sources from Brussels say that his visit is not part of his usual contacts.