The spring report that EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule is going to present in Strasbourg on Tuesday afternoon will be realistic and pragmatic, says diplomatic sources in Brussels. They told Dnevnik that the report cannot be referred to as either positive or negative, adding that Commissioner Fule obviously did not leave Skopje happy with his last visit. The most important, according to these sources, is seeing what the reaction from Athens is to this document.

On presenting the report at the European Parliament, a debate by the Members of the European Parliament is not expected. Asked whether the coming visit of Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, is related to the presentation of the EC report, aiming to accelerate the resolution of the name issue, Brussels officials say that she will be visiting a number of countries in the region and so she is not bringing “anything tangible.”