As the summit of the European Council set for 27 and 28 June approaches, it is getting increasingly more certain that Macedonia will again not be set a date for opening membership negotiations with the EU. It is in this direction that statements of Macedonian politicians as well as their Greek counterparts, who keep arguing that the name issue has to be resolved first, have recently moved. Last month, after meeting Stefano Sannino, Director General for Enlargement at the EC, Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Popovski said a positive outcome from the June summit was unlikely, stressing thereby that Macedonia had long deserved to open accession talks yet it was just as certain that Greece was not ready to give its support without which the opening of talks was impossible, Nova Makedonija reports.